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I wonder if soybeans can be turned into ethanol.
I mean they can but just like corn or others takes more energy to turn it into that then you get back
Soybean oil can be transesterified with an alcohol (usually methanol) in the presence of a catalyst to make fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) or “biodiesel.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transesterification
Interesting.