Re: Car Craft Ramblings

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: "Todd  Wallis" <cyclone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" Ethanol sounds good but it is more complicated than that.

true.  afail all our fermentation methods are woefully inefficient,
leaving lots of unfermented but theoretically fermentable residue.

" Countries like China and India (with populations that make ours look paltry) 
" are modernizing fast and their demands for petroleum are rapidly increasing.
" When fossil fuel crude gets really scarce you would need an impossible 
" amount of surface space required to grow all the corn necessary to 
" accommodate the US  fuel demand much less the rest of the world.

this may be urban [rural?] legend, but i've heard that a field 500
miles on a side could grow enough oil crop [canola, soy, whatever] to
supply all the us oil needs.

now combine that with biodiesel...

" Even if you had the surface space on the planet, planting that much of a 
" single crop creates a biodiversity nightmare.

this is true.  commercial ag is already over the edge with
monocultures.  read up on bananas...
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