Dear Ken thank you for this real life story. I have learned from it Peter
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:09 PM, ken deboer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dr. Gluck, maybe not all that bad of news. I agree, the idea of "growing > your own fuel" is dead. Ecologically, even economically, impossible under > our current world situation. Bioethanol as gasoline additives will become > increasingly disastrous. For a few years I grew my own biodiesel for my > tractor. I grew camelina, which is an ecologically great crop for my poor > farm (central Montana, USA). I crushed it and made biodiesel. A few other > Montana farmers did it also. We all quit. While we might have broke even > dollar-wise, the real cost (ecological and otherwise) was much too high. > So, we can bid a sad farewell to a once good sounding idea, and move on to > better solutions. > BTW, I'm surrounded by cheap coal and now oil, which have their own loud, > and controlling advocates who will rule the roost until we (hopefully > sooner than later) get lenr or ? . > Hopefully yours, ken > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Colleagues, >> >> For your information: >> >> *Bioenergy: The Broken Promise: * >> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121009121446.htm >> >> An idea has failed. I remember some 10 years ago many people >> planning to cultivate rapeseed on land not good for agriculture here >> and great progresses in bio-diesel. >> >> We have to take care that our Idea should succeed. >> >> Peter >> -- >> Dr. Peter Gluck >> Cluj, Romania >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >> >> > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
