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 all about like weeds though they are. Just about >everything it says (it paints a scary picture) was predicted decades >ago by the pioneers of modern sustainable farming, who also showed >that NONE of it is at all necessary. The rest of that post should be helpful: http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg29068.html Re: [biofuel] Oil depletion and Global warming >( Do a Google search for it for >best location) http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html Eating Fossil Fuels Best Keith >rayj >St.Paul > >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 an input of around 10 >calories of fossil energy. > >Does that sound about right? > >James > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/