Hi Alan
>Keith Addison wrote:
> > SASKATOON, Sask.-"Ethanol production from corn is a
> > fossil-energy-losing proposition" is the conclusion of Professor Tad
> > Patzek who is a petroleum and chemical engineer at University of
> > California, Berkeley.
>
>That "petroleum and chemical engineer" p
In a message dated 12/3/2003 2:28:58 AM Central Standard Time,
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Sounds like he's been reading Pimento's stuff.
The question is: is he right? The fact that he's a chemical engineer does
not, in itself, suggest that he's wrong, does it?
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Alan Petrillo wrote:
>>"We have:
>>- Burned more fossil fuels than the energy content of the ethanol from corn;
>>- Degraded and eroded soil on millions of acres;
>>- Polluted surface and groundwater with nitrates, herbicides,
>>pesticides, and ethanol waste;
>>- Polluted air with CO, NOx , SO2
Keith Addison wrote:
> SASKATOON, Sask.-"Ethanol production from corn is a
> fossil-energy-losing proposition" is the conclusion of Professor Tad
> Patzek who is a petroleum and chemical engineer at University of
> California, Berkeley.
That "petroleum and chemical engineer" part ought to tel
Patzek's quite right about the large amounts of fossil-fuels used in
the production of maize and wheat - industrialized monocrops of maize
and wheat, that is. But it says long-term sustainability is one of
his research interests, so he ought to know that industrialized
monocrops aren't the onl
