-----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:32 AM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: RE: Message from D. Pimentel
. This comment is petulant and sophomoric. You should read his papers carefully and then if you find a technical error, let us know. His error is his utter lack of imagination, as I point out with the ice wine idea to concentrate alcohol. Countless professors at Cornell can drive past endless miles of unfarmed lands around Ithaca and all of New England - and then publish nonsense about eating up all of Americas farm land and letting the poor starve (which currently seems to be the latest NIMBY argument against biofuel). As for Brazil and the rest - so now ethanol is a human rights issue? You're getting desperate. The difference in ethanol price between Brazil and the US is not so great that it can't reasonably be overcome by further efficiencies that don't involve slave labor ( which usually isn't very productive, anyway).
