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Sisu West Ranch wrote:
> *"...* you could use practically any dead plant material to make 
> ethanol.  They mentioned using all the orange peels and stuff that was 
> left over from making orange juice..."
>  
> Not quite yet, but soon.  When the technology is developed a bit more, 
> we can then use the corn for food (human and animal) and the corn stalks 
> and other biomass for ethanol.  Then you don't have to count the 
> fertilizer etc. with the ethanol because you are using stuff that used 
> to just rot in the soil.  As far as the global carbon dioxide balance 
> goes it makes no difference if the corn stalk is burned as ethanol in a 
> car or eaten by a soil bacteria.

But that "stuff that used to rot in the soil" also fertilized it, so if 
now you take it off and make auto fuel out of it instead, you have to 
use more fertilizer.

TANSTAAFL  (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch).

--
Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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