If only we could harness the power of Kudzu, the south would have an endless supply of biofuel!
-Cameron On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Random thoughts on bio-fuels: > > * There's a a lot of promise here, but good choices need to be made: > > "The biofuels boom has contributed to the recent spike in food prices > that threatens the world's poor. In Brazil, home of ethanol made from > sugar cane, it's had another unintended consequence: slavery. The use > of forced labor to work in sugar cane plantations is "a growing > trend," according to the U.S. State Department's latest report on > human trafficking." > > ----- > * Done right via non-edible plants and a well-regulated production > environment you could solve world poverty. I'm just not sure why > people are looking into this more. Think of spreading the wealth of, > say, Saudi Arabia across Africa! > > ------ > * My favorite (in use in India and the Philippines) is Jatropha, but > there's also higher-tech alternatives in research: > > Aurora Biofuels, Inc., a leader in open-pond algae aquaculture > technology, announced today it has completed a second round of > funding, raising $20 million. Aurora Biofuels will use the funds to > expand its field operations and to increase its efforts to optimize > the production cycle of growing, harvesting and extracting microalgae > to produce bio-oil, which can be converted into biofuels. > > Microalgae have several advantages over traditional biofuel crops > including their ability to produce much more bio-oil per acre, and > their ability to be grown on marginal land using marginal water so > they do not compete with food resources. > > www.aurorabiofuels.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261648 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
