Re: [Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Ray, James >Hi James > >Have you read the article " Eating Fossil Fuels"--A seriously good >read on the basics of food production. Up to a point: >This comes from an article called "Eating Fossil Fuels", which has >facts such as these right but fails to see the alternatives, >springing up a

Re: [Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread ray johnson
Hi James Have you read the article " Eating Fossil Fuels"--A seriously good read on the basics of food production. ( Do a Google search for it for best location) rayj St.Paul James Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi all I'm working on a corn article and plan to assume that w

Re: [Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Roughly. I think that Michael Pollan has some documentation some sort in his book "the omnivoure's dilemma) Z On 2/4/07, James Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I'm working on a corn article and plan to assume that with mono crop, industrial production, 1 calorie of corn requires a

[Biofuel] Corn Energy Balance

2007-02-04 Thread James Machin
Hi all I'm working on a corn article and plan to assume that with mono crop, industrial production, 1 calorie of corn requires an input of around 10 calories of fossil energy. Does that sound about right? James ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@s