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Ethics of Biofuels (Ethanol) – or lack of ethics as the article makes clear | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. December 30, 2006. Ethics of Biofuels (Ethanol) – or lack of ethics as the article makes clear. 8212; nemo @ 9:26 pm. Found this at Energy News. And just had to write about it:. Anyone who tells you that we can run all our cars on biodiesel or ethanol is out of their minds. The issue is simple arithmetic. There’s much much more there. In fact, there are 11 principles explored, the above was a part of principle #1. 14 Comments ». They represent gross production. Whe...
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Beginnings | The Narrow Road
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Zen and the art of mathematics. The Narrow Road draws its title from Oku no Hosomichi. This entry was posted on September 13, 2006 at 11:32 pm and is filed under Journey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Feed You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. 11 Responses to “Beginnings”. September 18, 2006 at 4:05 am. What is a pro-finite Lie ring? September 18, 2006 at 2:00 pm. December 5, 2006 at 12:42 am. Welcome to the club, old mate! IR...
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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) produces 25% of U.S. ethanol | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. December 16, 2006. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) produces 25% of U.S. ethanol. 8212; nemo @ 1:01 pm. The environmental magazine Grist. Has covered the biofuel / ethanol topic in depth over the past weeks. Among the topics covered is this one that doesn’t get a lot of play:. Monsanto and Pioneer control 60% of the U.S. corn and soybean seed market. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ethanol production adds 25-50 cents to the value of a bushel of corn. Leave...
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Ethanol — Is It Worth It? | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. January 3, 2007. Ethanol Is It Worth It? 8212; nemo @ 10:18 pm. I just keep running across these kinds of articles — this time from Chemical & Engineering News. Then there’s this part:. It bears repeating — a 3% increase in vehicle efficiency would solve many problems. 4 Comments ». How about a 1000% increase in vehicle efficiency? Check out James Woolsey’s commentary at http:/ biooutput.blogspot.com/2006/12/tale-of-two-auto-shows.html. 8212; January 5, 2007 @ 12:48 pm.
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Potential Impacts of Increased Corn Production | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. January 2, 2008. Potential Impacts of Increased Corn Production. 8212; nemo @ 4:09 pm. Source: The Potential Impacts of Increased Corn Production for Ethanol in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Region. Pdf) — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dec 18, 2007. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Food and Fuel Compete for Land.
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Brief Histories | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. November 27, 2007. 8212; nemo @ 8:29 pm. I added Brief Histories. To the Pages section on the left menu to gather all of the “A Brief History of …” posts onto a single page for easy reference. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Dave Dempsey’s blog. Council...
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Water Use by Ethanol Plants – Potential Achilles heel of the ethanol boom | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. December 4, 2006. Water Use by Ethanol Plants – Potential Achilles heel of the ethanol boom. 8212; nemo @ 7:06 pm. The shortage of available water could become the Achilles heel of the ethanol boom if more efficient use of water isn’t made a priority, finds a new paper by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). Figure 2 [graph above] takes Minnesota’s water consumption averages and applies them to national ethanol production estimates, which includes eth...
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The evaporation factor: Warm winter weather + frozen ground = lower lake levels | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. January 10, 2008. The evaporation factor: Warm winter weather frozen ground = lower lake levels. Filed under: Great Lakes Issues. 8212; nemo @ 12:17 pm. Lake levels continue to decline. This article explains the reasons quite nicely. Notice that average lake temperatures have increased 4 degrees since 1980. Lake Huron is in a fog, part of a gloomy cycle that’s pushing water levels to record lows, scientists say. 8220;Since 1978, there’s been a long-term decline i...
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Zebra Muscles cost a billion bucks | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. December 17, 2007. Zebra Muscles cost a billion bucks. Filed under: Great Lakes Issues. 8212; nemo @ 10:07 pm. Clark County, Washington) summarizes the efforts and costs associated with zebra muscle clean-up:. So they examined calcium levels in the water. 8220;That’s what they make their shells out of,” said Thom Whittier, a faculty research assistant at Oregon State who wrote the study with three other researchers. Tabulating water-sampling data from 3,000 river sites...
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The latest for thirsty furry friends: bottled water | Undercurrents: beneath the obvious
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Undercurrents: beneath the obvious. December 9, 2007. The latest for thirsty furry friends: bottled water. Filed under: Bottled Water. 8212; nemo @ 6:00 pm. From the CBC News. Comes this article regarding new marketing avenues opening up for bottled water:. Bottled water, a staple for the two-legged, is now being aimed at the four-legged market. Aquience, a Charlottetown, Ontario-based company, recently launched Pet Quench. Canadians spend almost $5 billion a year on their pets. Aquience costs $1....