No horse in the race per se,(but I guess bottom line we all do) just an interesting Bio article.


http://rense.com/general70/carb.htm

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good read

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I'm a bio fuel user-maker but have always believed that bio fuels should NEVER be made from virgin oil, or that crops should be grown for it.
Biodiesel will never be a real choice for the world. It's great as a way of giving used oil a second life but no forests should be cut down in order to make bio.
This makes me very sad.

Ginny

Discussed before on the TDIclub forum too. But he is a little miss guided.

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=129736&highlight=biodiesel+worse

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I don't per se see a problem with growing crops for it. Think of govt. farm subsididies that could be eliminated if the farmers started growing (rather than not) for a secondary market, namely biodiesel and SVO application. I'm sure there's arguments either way, but cutting down forests for such production suffers from the same shortsighted behavior of the dinofuels industry (Exxon being the classic example).

That said, Wired did an article back in Dec. 2005 explaining why crops are not feasible as a large scale source given the yield of the plants relative to the US fuel consumption demand, and seemed to fall back on the 'oh well, lets just keep buying dino from the middle east'. Where I critcize this article, is not the attitude or the pro-dino feel, but that they completely ignored recent developments in oil production, namely through algae who can produce exponentially higher amounts of oil per acre.

This is not hypothetical BS. Groups are actually researching the potential. See this article for starters :
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html

what is Jatropha?


thanks google!!

http://www.jatropha.de/

http://www.jatrophaworld.org/

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