Study Finds Biofuels More Harmful to the Environment - Galt's Gulch

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Study Finds Biofuels More Harmful to the Environment

Posted by MikeMarotta 10 years ago to Technology

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...from corn residue...
Others might be different.

SOURCE URL: http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2014/04/20/Study+casts+doubt+on+climate+benefit+of+biofuels+from+corn+residue

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Posted by evlwhtguy 10 years ago

Gees...I am shocked, the greenies college lab inspired ideas about what can work down on the farm are wrong, who would-u-thunk it. It is always amazing to me that people who have never stepped on a cow pie, think they know more than the farmer who has lived on the farm all his life. Moral of the story, Just because something sounds Buck Rodgerish, doesn't mean it will work!

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Posted by Lucky 10 years ago

MM. A good find.

Whether or not the net CO2 is more or less than if using oil, gas or coal for fuel is not relevant.
What matters is that diverting food crops to fuel is already causing starvation, and using subsidies for that is shameful.

As for the effect of more CO2, more is beneficial, plants grow better so there is more food for animal life. CO2 has no effect on global temperatures, this is unfortunate as the earth is entering a cooling phase.

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  Posted by SRS66East 10 years ago
  
  I disagree about using food crops for fuel. The problem lies, as you implied, in diverting food production facilities into fuel production. However traveling through the Midwest one can find vast stretches of arable land that lie fallow as a result of the shrinking farm base. Putting more land into production and increasing the number of farmers is the answer. How to get there, well commodity prices must rise in order to coerce more people into farming. What drives a rise in commodity prices, scarcity of those commodities. Capitalism works but it is a slow turning wheel. Stop crying that the sky is falling and let the process work itself out.
  
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    Posted by SRS66East 10 years ago
    
    Far more destructive and shameful is taking arable land out of circulation to build housing allotments on it. There is land that is great for housing and is terrible for farming, it may not be as conveniently located but that's what living in the burbs is all about... the commute.
    
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