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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 01:42 PM Original message |
Bush Pimps Cellulose Ethanol From Unproven, Still Unscaled Process |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. Isn't crop waste used as fertilizer? Seems to me... doesn't agriculture |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Wind is good for generating electricity, but we also will need motor fuel. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Yeah. And you can fill 10 hydrogen fuel cell batteries off one wind mill |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Farming ethanol will have a big environmental impact. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I agree. What worries me is that turning husks into ethanol isn't |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Ethanol can be oil-free. What happens is loss of efficiency. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Well - fallow sounds fine to me. About time we started using that word |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Indeed - what happens when we take 1/3 or 1/2 of corn stover from a field? |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. That is what I mean. Surly if you take the husks away to make fuel for |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Yes, crop wastes are usually plowed under |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. And Bush proposed it. Makes you wonder if he really wants this |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-02-06 02:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. Actually, corn stover is left on top of the field to rot during the fall |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 03:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Switchgrass Seems To Be The Holy Grail |
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Coastie for Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. Years ago - (okay 7 years ago) - I attended a seminar about |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
5. what happened to hydrogen!?!?! Did we skip over the hydrogen economy |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I can tell you what *my* magic-8-ball says... |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I tend to think the talk about ETOH from shrub is just like his talk on H |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Yes, their rhetoric on ALL energy or environmental policy is empty. |
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JohnWxy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 05:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. point very well taken. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 02:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Hey, I'm still waiting for the flying car I was promised |
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Vogon_Glory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-01-06 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
20. Oil Business Connected Republicans Know That... |
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rfkrfk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-02-06 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
21. Why do environmentalists oppose renewable energy ? |
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