i dont know that i agree that there would be any more
of a feed meal glut than there is right now. all the
grain that is being produced in this country today is
being marketed to every conceivable use there
currently is and we still have an oversupply.
currently if commodity prices are high the
You have removed calorific value of the farm product. At present (6
billion)we are capable of sufficient overproduction to wear that, but at 18
billion (2050?)we would not, try 50 billion people. The projections that
show population leveling off and then decreasing require that a minimum
global
Is there a chart somewheres showing the amount of meal left after oil
extraction for each crop like there is for oil per pound or acre? And would it
neccesarily cause a glut -- perhaps with many crops the meal could be then used
for ethanol production?
Appal Energy wrote:
Herein lies
Harmon,
Don't let Club Sierra hear you say that. They apparently think that
agriculture should deal solely with food and not mix with energy issues.
Take the weight of each oilseed per bushel, subtract 94% of the oil weight
(cold pressing leaves ~ 6% of the oil in the feed meal), subtract any
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Is there a chart somewheres showing the amount of meal left after
oil
extraction for each crop like there is for oil per pound or acre
Ken! Whether you dig it,grow it or catch it as sunlight. If there is an
exponential increase in the rate of use of energy it would need to come
from
an infinite source at a potentially infinite rate, to be sustainable.
There is an absolute limit to Cultivatable land, one we reached at least
