Comments on: Time Blasts Biofuels

By: wing

wing — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:47:17 +0000

Time Blasts Biofuels~so terrible

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By: CommonSenseApproach

CommonSenseApproach — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:54:34 +0000

Thats right, Humans are an infestation of the Planet Earth and We are not worthy of existence. You’ve proven the point that Environmentalism is birthed out of Socialism, Liberalism, and Marxism – all are tied together with the theme of genocide, euthanasia, suicide for the “benefit of The Cause” – Hitler and Jim Jones is the first thing that comes to my mind. The cause Man made Global Warming…no no Climate Change.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:45:45 +0000

Do you really think Time magazine is unbiased and not influenced by Big Oil's attempt to discredit alcohol fuels until they have pumped the last drop out of the ground? The American Petroleum Institute has targeted alcohol for a campaign of dis-information and discredit. Why? Because they know it doable right now and it scares them to death that their mega profits will plummet if the public pressure gets behind alcohol. Big OIl has ruled the country, if not world, with fear and intimidation and reaped mega profits all along the way.

The trillions of dollars spent by the US on grabbing the last Middle-East oil in Bush's dirty little war could have converted the country to alcohol production with change left over.

Read bio-systems ecologist David Blume's book, "Alcohol Can Be A Gas". He is the father of the modern alcohol fuel movement. David had a series of PBS programs produced and ready to air in 1983 on switching to alcohol fuels. A single phone call to KQED in San Francisco by Chevron Oil killed the series and secured big corporate sponsorship for KQED at a time when government finding of public broadcasting was drying up.

Deforestation can be addressed.

That little quote in Time about using food (wheat) to make fuel is pure B.S. meant to put doubt in the public's mind about the need to get off oil right now. This is how the API's public relations campaign to discredit alcohol works. They did the same thing with the global warming issue by finding a bunch of controversial Quack experts to say that global warming wasn't really human caused by our greenhouse gas emissions.

World hunger is not a matter of enough food being grown. It is a matter of distribution, who controls the wealth and politics. We saw that in Somalia when poor people were dying and all the food they needed to survive sat unable to be delivered because of a bunch of warlords.

Alcohol can be made from any carbohydrate, anywhere in the world. The amount of green waste (grass and plant prunings) generated by US landscaping could make tons of alcohol fuel. The energy output vs input can be staggering. In Brazil they are making alcohol with a ratio of 8 units of output for every 1 unit of input.

Biodiesel is not the answer. If all the oil crops currently grown in the US were used to make biodiesel it would only be 2% of the amount of petrol diesel used, but no oil for french fries or fried chicken - hahaha. An acre of land can produce much more alcohol than veggie oil for biodiesel. Alcohol can also be used in certain diesel engines with modifications.

Alcohol production is ideally suited for a co-op system of investor/consumers working with farmer/producers. Big corporations are not needed to do this. Models of the system are already quietly working in this country.

You say you want a revolution? Alcohol fuel will be a battle in the near future that will need help if the Big OIl corporations are to be beaten and the public interest preserved. And the planet will reap immense benefits too.

By: Larry Kirkeby

Larry Kirkeby — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:11:09 +0000

No offense but who told you ethanol was better. It is a molecule with one less hydrogen atom at the beginning. This is like already partially burned gas. Its just cheap gas only its not cheap.

Kindest,Larry

By: M PELEKIS

M PELEKIS — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:39:33 +0000

I think every major oil(petroeum) company and every saudi,kuwaiti or iranian minister -politician would agree with TIME’s statements,

a whole lot of hog here – ‘a fuel tank = a person for a year’ – very neat, too neat . . .

By: simon@aus

simon@aus — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:01:59 +0000

I sense a whole lot of hog here - 'a fuel tank = a person for a year' - very neat, too neat.

But probably trueish all the same.

Need to do something more clever in what to harvest to get the ethanol - modified birch? algae?

By: steved28

steved28 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:25:45 +0000

Eric,

You mean like this?

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008/04/food-waste-deri.html#more

By: Eric2

Eric2 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:46:21 +0000

I said it in the past, I say it now, and I will say it in the future:

BIOFUELS FROM WASTE, PEOPLE.

With all of the fast food joints around the nation, why not take that waste grease and turn it into biofuels...

By: eddie

eddie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:02:23 +0000

Hmmm. I think there are a few problems with some of these ...
2. Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of all current carbon emissions.
WHAT PART OF THIS DEFORESTATION IS CAUSED BY ETHANOL FARMERS?
3. Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in carbon emissions, and most of its emissions come from deforestation.
WHILE IT IS DEFINITELY TRUE THAT DEFORESTATION IS BORDERING IDIOTIC, SWITCHGRASS CAN BE GROWN ON MARGINAL LAND THAT IS NO GOOD FOR ANYTHING ELSE.
FURTHER, THERE WAS A STUDY THAT FOUND "...switchgrass ethanol can deliver around 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, as opposed to corn ethanol which can only yield around 24 percent."
7. A study in Science concluded that when this deforestation effect is taken into account, corn ethanol and soy biodiesel produce about twice the emissions of gasoline.
AGAIN - DEFORESTATION IS BAD. GROW SWITCHGRASS ON CRAPPY LAND.
THE BASIC IDEA, FOLKS, IS TO CONTINUE WORKING ON THE PROMISE OF SUSTAINABLE METHODS AND PRODUCTS.