Comments on: Reality Check: More negatives of crop based ethanol

By: Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » Africa's deal with the biofuel devil

Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » Africa's deal with the biofuel devil — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:58:46 +0000

[...] that Africa needs to set up some infrastructure. However, as you may already be aware, I’m wholeheartedly against any biofuel that takes agricultural land. Therefore, companies using this land, even if it is “only sparsely populated [...]

By: Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » EPA rules that the Ethanol requirements shouldn't be lowered

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:57:07 +0000

[...] the only biofuel that I really support at the moment is algae based biofuels and that I’m a strong opponent of ethanol. So it saddened me to see that the EPA ruled against Texas Governor Rick Perry’s request to [...]

By: Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » Missouri set to become first producer of ALGAE biofuel in the NATION

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:28:21 +0000

[...] numbers will be for one of these plants. I mean, some projections have algae biofuel as being one of the most efficient biofuels so far but then you have those that say algae is still way too [...]

By: Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » Collect Solar Energy with your Glass Windows

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:39:34 +0000

[...] If the technology can survive and prosper on an open market, then by all means. I just hate all the subsidies that the government gives some of these schemes (tax breaks/incentives are a whole different [...]

By: Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » EU to vote on whether to scrap its biofuel goals

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:54:42 +0000

[...] how the EU’s goal of 10% biofuels has affected other country’s agricultural habits. Take a look (under the “Bad for Biodiversity” section). Bookmark and Share: [...]

By: Stop Growing Crops for Ethanol (Grow Algae Instead) « Girwen’s Weblog

Stop Growing Crops for Ethanol (Grow Algae Instead) « Girwen’s Weblog — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:56:36 +0000

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By: GSI

GSI — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:29:11 +0000

For more information on government support policies for biofuels, see the series of country reports (free to download) at the Global Subsidies Initiative's web site.

By: jsknow

jsknow — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:14:35 +0000

It looks to me like the best thing we can do is get the government off their drug trip and grow a crop that works. Industrial hemp is useless as a drug but it can provide over 50,000 products that are more environmentally friendly than products in use today. This single plant can provide all the basic necessities of human life, food, clothing, building material and fuel. Don’t let them lie to you about the land, there is plenty of farm land. We have over 100 million total farm acres in the USA and only use about half. The half that’s not being planted is way more than enough to grow ALL our fuel. Not only that but the government is still paying farmers not to plant. Watch the video titled “HEMP FUEL Can Supply All Our Energy Needs” and read the article titled “Marijuana Facts The Government Does Not Want You To Know” on the website referenced at the bottom of this post.
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Hemp requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and only moderate amounts of fertilizer.
Source: MARIJUANA AND HEMP THE UNTOLD STORY
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Hemp can produce several different kinds of fuel. In the 1800′s and 1900′s hempseed oil was the primary source of fuel in the United States and was commonly used for lamps and other oil energy needs. The diesel engine was originally designed to run on hemp oil because Rudolf Diesel assumed that it would be the most common fuel. Hemp is also the most efficient plant for the production of methanol. It is estimated that, in one form or another, hemp grown in the United States could provide up to ninety percent of the nation’s entire energy needs.
Source: Schaffer Library of Drug Policy
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Hemp is 4 times more efficient than corn as biofuel. Hemp pellets can be used to produce clean electricity.
… so powerful it could replace every type of fossil fuel energy product (oil, coal, and natural gas).
… This plant is the earth’s number one biomass resource or fastest growing annual plant for agriculture on a worldwide basis, producing up to 14 tons per acre. This is the only biomass source available that is capable of producing all the energy needs of the U.S. and the world…
Hemp will produce cleaner air and reduce greenhouse gases. When biomass fuel burns, it produces CO2 (the major cause of the greenhouse effect), the same as fossil fuel; but during the growth cycle of the plant, photosynthesis removes as much CO2 from the air as burning the biomass adds, so hemp actually cleans the atmosphere. After the first cycle there is no further loading to the atmosphere…
Source: USA Hemp Museum
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Up to 300 gallons of fuel per acre, 500,000 acres of unused US farm land, up to 3 crops a yr in some areas… you do the math. Even if these estimates are way off there’s enough fuel there to give OPEC a lot to think about.

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