Zell, Chris wrote:
[Pimentel's] 2003 study claims that Brazil dropped subsidies because ethanol
production was ineffective. Yet, ethanol has expanded there, along
with ethanol exports doubling recently.
Yes. As I pointed out last month this industry is built on the backs
of slave labor, child labor, terror and stealing productive cropland
from peasants. In South America, where millions of people suffer from
malnutrition, this industry converts food into fuel, and young people
into a pile of broken bodies and corpses. Also they are ravaging the
land and the ecology.
Apparently, they found ways to become more efficient. Ain't science
wonderful?
No they do not. They just found a way to trade human lives for fuel.
Also strange? He's associated with Cornell , close to wine country
- yet, the notion of increasing ethanol production efficiency by an
"ice wine" technique In a New England climate doesn't occur to
him. Hmmmm.........
Pimentel's co-authors are in California Iowa and elsewhere. His
research was performed in the corn growing states. And as I pointed
out, even the numbers quoted by industry flacks are dismal. This
comment is petulant and sophomoric. You should read his papers
carefully and then if you find a technical error, let us know.
- Jed
