Posted on 08/28/2016 5:36:30 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Is it possible the environmentalists have been praying at the wrong altar?
Is it possible that corn – as a fuel - is a worse pollutant than (gasp!) oil? Well, yes, apparently:
Despite their purported advantages, biofuels — created from crops such as corn or soybeans — cause more emissions of climate change-causing carbon dioxide than gasoline, according to the study from U-M Energy Institute research professor John DeCicco.
The multi-billion-dollar U.S. biofuels industry — promoted and expanded for more than a decade by the federal government — [ed. read “subsidies”] may be built on a false assumption, according to a University of Michigan study published Thursday that is sure to stir all sides in the contentious debate over the industry. - Detroit Free Press
Because wherever facts don’t matter assumptions will be king:
"Carbon neutrality has really just been an assumption," he said. "To verify the extent which that assumption is true, you really need to analyze what's going on on the farmland, where the biofuels are being grown. People haven't done that in the past — they felt like they didn't need to.
Well darn; so corn makes better food than fuel; and carbon makes better fuel than food. Who’d a thunk?
Today’s special muffins: coal or corn. Your choice
This has all been very disappointing. Build it and they will come, they said.
Turn it into gasoline and it will be better than corn flakes they said.
People won’t mind paying a little more for their tacos and Doritos as long as we’re saving the earth, they said.
“Yeah, I’m bringing it home for the lawn mower!”
You’ll be a hero, they said. The earth will pay tribute to your name they said.
Apparently they meant yellow corn, not this wimpy half-white corn job.
If you need me, I’ll be on the beach, soaking up some of the sun’s energy.
Hey! Here’s an idea; why don’t we replace oil and coal with solar panels!!!
This public service message was brought to you by the Kellogg Foundation where our motto is “Let’s put the corn back in corn flakes.”
Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror
What a great idea! Let's BURN THE FOOD!
President Cornhole approves.
That dark chocolate muffin looks delicious ...
Yes it is obvious that growing food on a mass scale - even to small backyard gardens - is ruining the climate. As responsible humans, we owe it to the planet (may peace be upon blessed Gaia) to stop eating food at once!
The Human Extinction Movement is growing and active - all right thinking Freepeers should join at once!
I’ll keep a vigil for you guys.
If ethanol was such a great idea one would have thought the growers would have made an attempt to convert to its usage in the machinery used in the production.
“cause more emissions of climate change-causing carbon dioxide than gasoline”
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Not worth reading further!!!!!!!!!
Amen. The basic premise is false. There isn’t any provable AGW?
Old news.
There was a TED presentation a while ago where it was presented that you could get more ethanol out of a smaller quantity of mushrooms than from corn. Gonna go find that one.
lets see... fields need to be plowed and dressed, then planted then harvested all with diesel fuel, not to mention the fertilizers and weedkiller that wash into the watershed, but the RATS feeel good about themselves and that's all that really matters, right???
I wonder if this professor remembered to subtract the amount of CO2 used by the corn plant to grow when he did his calculations.
In the entire "anthropogenic global warming" scam, there seems to be no acknowledgement that every single carbon atom contained within the body of every organism on earth originates as atmospheric CO2. Without that carbon dioxide, life on earth ends.
Given the suicidal/life-hating mindset of the left, I cannot disregard that the end goal of the leaders of "global warming" hysteria *is* to eliminate all life.
I read a detailed research paper back in the 90’s that described the massive energy input it takes to grow and turn corn into fuel. It was very detailed talking about how corn requires the most fertilizer which is of course created from natural gas or petroleum.
Then there is harvesting, transportation and the conversion process. These all require massive fuel. In the end it concluded that it took far more energy to produce corn fuel than the energy output. I cannot find the paper but it was around 1995 or so that I read it.
Either Trump or Cruz wanted to increase corn subsidies. I can’t recall. (or maybe I can.)
“What a great idea! Let’s BURN THE FOOD! “
There is plenty of food, check out the price of corn now.
Also are you aware that much of the bushel of corn is used for food after the ethanol is extracted?
I remember it too. Somewhere in the last year there was a notation somewhere on that finding. Wish I could find it.
Anyway, I’ve never believed in Global Warming and certainly not due to carbon dioxide, necessary to maintain plant life which supplies the oxygen we breathe.
The idea of using 95% ethanol as motor fuel was advanced by Henry Ford, in the early days of internal combustion engines, and given the technology of the time, may have made good economic sense. The ethanol-producing crops could be grown right on the very farms where it was consumed, restoring the idea of subsistence farming to where it was with horses, where the hay and grain production was diverted partly to support the necessary teams of horses needed to till and harvest. Off-farm sales made up only a relatively small part of the annual production of smaller farms, and farmers rarely had much in the sway of cash.
As it became to be, petroleum products had to be purchased by the farming enterprise to use in the internal-combustion engines that became the norm for power to till the soil and harvest the crops. While it made the productivity of the individual farming enterprise much greater, there was also woven an interdependence that would be hard to separate today.
Not only can we burn the 'food', as you put it, but we now still have mountains of surplus after we're done.
It doesn’t matter how false or how many times proven false or by how prestigious the authorities. A liberal Truth remains politically true and can never be denied.
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