--- In [email protected], "Susan Hogarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Lorraine DeNardis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... I was just at an energy meeting, and they are > > planning a bio-fuel energy plant in Nacadoches county that will burn wood > > chips instead of coal as fuel. While I was there I was thinking that Hemp is > > a lot more renewable than wood, and to burn wood to help off set carbon > > emmissions kind of defeats the purpose. ... > > Hemp as a fuel takes a lot of processing, wouldn't it? Are the wood > chips the byproduct of some other use of wood? Wood is a perfectly > fine fuel source, it seems to me. > > -- > Susan Hogarth | Get Free! > Libertarian for NC State House 38 > http://hogarth4house.com/ >
Wind and Solar are far far superior methods of generating electricity. If enough wind/solar is installed, the costs and effects of hydrocarbons would diminish drastically. Of course, the utilities and the governments that tax the krap out of them are opposed for some reason. Vjk
