>From: "Wichert, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: National Corn Growers Response to Pimentel >Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:56:05 -0500 > >Here is a response from John McClelland of the National Corn Growers >Association. > >Many of you have heard about a study by David Pimentel that says some bad >things about ethanol. I want you all to know that we are aware of the study >and have been award of Mr. Pimentel for some time. He has been writing the >same paper over and over again for the past 20 years. His work has been >thoroughly refuted in much of the literature on this subject, yet he still >has "friends" in the academic community. Dr. Graboski has undertaken a >review of this paper along with Mike Wang and some of his DOE colleagues and >the guys at USDA. All of us have worked on analysis that refutes Pimentel. >Mike is contacting the publishers at Academic Press and requesting an >opportunity to provide a formal review of the paper. > >In addition, Mike Graboski and I have been talking to a science writer from >a science magazine and discussed our first impressions of this paper with >her and I think she is already skeptical. We will provide you with >information as it becomes available. We suggest that you refer questions to >us and we will get folks to talk to the appropriate analysts about this >paper. Our view is that Pimentel's methodology is absurd, his data old, and >his view of the world skewed. That said, I will leave you hopefully a bit >more at ease about this issue and assured that we are working on an >appropriate response. > > > >Don Wichert, P.E. >Chief, Energy Resources Section >Director, Demand Side Applications of Renewable Energy >Wisconsin Division of Energy >PO Box 7868 >Madison, WI 53707 >Phone: 608/266-7312 >Fax: 608/267-6931 >Visit the Focus on Energy Web page: http://www.wifocusonenergy.com/renewable
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