Marcel wrote: "There's no logical reason to grow energy crops at the expense of crops for food."
Thank you Marcel! I could not have said it better myself.
Michigan can have food and biofuel
Biofuel provides an answer -- without hiking food prices
http://www.detnews.
With Cellulosic Ethanol, There Is No Food Vs. Fuel Debate
http://www.lockergn
Mike
Marcel wrote:
There's no logical reason to grow energy crops at the expense of crops
for food.
The most abundant and convenient sources for biomass on this planet
are garbage and sewage. And the technology to covert this biomass into
gasoline and diesel fuel has been around for quite awhile now.
Marcel F. Williams
--- In All-Energy@yahoogroups.com , Michael Redler <redlerm@...> wrote:
>
> Focusing on corn as an ethanol problem and not a policy problem is
> irresponsible. Biomass as a fuel will only work if all viable crops are
> carefully considered. Using such a story as a way to downplay ethanol
> (or biofuels) is misleading. Ethanol is not a 1:1 replacement for
> gasoline. However, it certainly has a roll to play.
>
> "Bio-ethanol derived from maize, for example, has a capacity to reduce
> carbon-dioxide emissions by about 13 percent," said Clini. "However,
> this doesn't appear to be sustainable when you consider the farmland
> that's being used for the initial production, the quantity of water
> consumed, the emissions of nitrates during the treatment and conversion
> processes as well as the fact that it's competitive only with crude oil
> prices above US $80 a barrel. By contrast, bio-ethanol from sugar-cane
> can cut carbon-dioxide emissions by about 90 percent and is competitive
> with oil as low as US$30."
>
> http://www.fao.org/newsroom/ en/news/2007/ 1000702/index. html
>
> Mike
>
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