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Home Gardening Becomes Even More Imperative
"Omelet" wrote in message news In article 1, "Michael \"Dog3\" Lonergan" wrote: Charlie was forced to post this in: rec.gardens http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/27/1485/ Excerpt from article: "Almost a quarter of this year's US corn crop is expected to be turned into fuel. Drought in Australia has added to the food prices spike, which is feeding through to world inflation." I swear to Gawd I'd be much happier if we went back to the horse and buggy days. Michael But it still takes "fuel" to feed the horse. G Can't win can we? Wonder what the mpb (mile per bushel) for horses is? I still don't understand why biofuel is being manufactured from food instead of waste! There are tons and tons of weeds and corn STALKS that can be used instead. Wheat straw, millet, milo and sorghum straw (hell any stalks left over from ANY grain crops) as well as the non-edible tops from root crops. I am involved with a client that is breaking in to the biofuel world. They have perfected a process that turns meat-processing sludge (they are working primarily with chicken plant sludge which is basically everything that is left over at the end of the production run) into the appropriate amino acid base for a biofuel blend. This sludge is run through a *cleaning* process which has a yield rate of roughly 80% usable material to garbage and then it is refined which drops the final yield another 10%. The end product is then blended with diesel at varying rates depending on the needs of the final consumer. It's an up and coming industry and they are very secretive about the processes, etc so I don't have any idea what kind of energy use is required to render the final product, but was told that the rendering process does require more work than does Palm or Corn (the 2 most prolific oil bases currently used) , but that overall, their cost per gallon is quite a bit less due the to cost of raw material and transportation vs the other 2. (Most of the Palm oil is shipped in from Africa and there is not as great a density in farms producing corn for fuel as compared to the relatively high density iseen n the poultry processing areas. KW All it really takes is digestible cellulose. What am I missing here? A bit of BS perhaps? Speaking of BS, methane can also be compressed and used as a liquid fuel and heaven knows there is enough sh** being produced! -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a bitch" -- Jack Nicholson |
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