Re: biocoal

Festus Wrote:
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> Unfortunately, if your renewable fuels come
> directly from existing crop stocks, the price of
> that particular crop is driven up. If that crop
> is a food crop (like corn), food prices are driven
> up. If that crop is lumber, lumber prices are
> driven up. All of this is bad for the average Joe
> (or the starving child in Africa).
>
> If you are going to produce a biofuel, it needs to
> come from waste or processing byproducts that
> would normally be discarded or land-filled.
> Otherwise, the unintended effects of biofuel
> production create hardship for the people who
> least can afford it.
>
> Another case where "sustainability" and full
> economic impacts are ignored. If you are trying
> to innovate and create/harvest new energy sources,
> you need to consider the entire cycle. Any kind
> of extraction of energy from the environment has
> an impact, the question is can the impact be
> successfully managed? This is not just a problem
> for man. Most successful cycles in nature
> operate on negative feedback, which tends to bring
> systems into a sustainable equilibrium.
>
> Never Mind..... The engineer in me is getting
> tired....
>
> Scott

Amen Scott

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