>> RoMunn wrote: >> I will, once again, lodge my objection to burning our food. Bad idea. >> > >I think Sam was asking food *or* fuel. Jatropha is a great example of >a crop that is NOT FOOD, but a great fuel. Further it goes in the >desert - places where it is not feasible to grow food - so it creates >a massive wealth building opportunity for, say, Africa. > >And just on the surface, which sounds more difficult: > >1.) growing fuel crops, or >2.) exploring for and drilling for oil (not to mention refining). >Including in the ocean? > >If we were going to start from scratch today, exploring for oil and >then drilling for it would seem ridiculous compared to just planting >some fuel crops.
There are a lot of other things that can be converted into biofuel as well, such as wood waste from paper, or lumber mills, human waste of all sorts (converted to methane or biodiesel), saw grass, wheat or corn chaff - using cellulosic conversion) etc. It doesn't have to be an either or situation at all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247671 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
