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Biofuels do more harm than good, UN warns
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| March 23, 2014
| Robert Mendick
Posted on 03/24/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT by QT3.14
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About time!
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posted on
03/24/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT
by
QT3.14
To: QT3.14
Take that, US enviroweenies.
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posted on
03/24/2014 4:58:37 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: QT3.14
This was obvious from the start.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:00:58 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: QT3.14
Wow, I actually agree with the UN on something!
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:01:18 PM PDT
by
TBall
To: QT3.14
Actually, I think this reeks of oil company pr efforts. The UN is a wholly owned subsidiary of the 1% just as the US congress is.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:02:53 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: QT3.14
This will prompt serious strife among the greenies. What to do? What to do?
To: QT3.14
Iowa is the 1st primary state. If a candidate loses badly there, it’s an uphill challenge.
My guess is they will have all the presidential candidates lined up to stand behind their corn subsidies.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:03:14 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: QT3.14
The best biofuel is made from algae. It not only consumes carbon and nitrous oxides, but then is a pretty easy to process into biodiesel. First squeeze out the oil, then mix it with ethanol in the presence of a lye catalyst. Filter, then add 1% petroleum diesel as a preservative.
To: QT3.14
This is really maddening. My local farmer says that the corn farmers make out as they play the market, too.
I didn't even buy corn on the cob this year. And I can hardly remember the last time I had a good steak.
To: Sacajaweau
And I can hardly remember the last time I had a good steak. I am becoming a vegetarian . . and not by choice. I cast furtive longing looks at the meat aisle until the prices come into focus and I trudge on.
To: QT3.14
When are people going to realize that environmentalists do not care about the environment. They care about how being an environmentalist makes them feel and how it can be used to further the socialist agenda.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:19:23 PM PDT
by
rey
To: QT3.14
OMG! I was just hit by a flying pig!
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
“The best biofuel is made from algae. It not only consumes carbon and nitrous oxides, but then is a pretty easy to process into biodiesel. First squeeze out the oil, then mix it with ethanol in the presence of a lye catalyst. Filter, then add 1% petroleum diesel as a preservative.”
Agree. And, there is a huge dead zone of the stuff out in the Gulf just south of the Mississippi River estuary. I’ve been wondering for some time why this stuff isn’t being harvested.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:26:01 PM PDT
by
snoringbear
(E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
More BS from the OPEC-dominated United Nations.
...drives up food prices...
No it doesn't, $100 a barrel oil maintains high food prices, along with the price of pretty much everything else. Any nation that can't feed itself has a leftist gov't, or a regime that is corrupt in some other way, and guess what, the sooner these supposedly starving millions starve to death, the sooner their hunger problem will vanish. That would be a hard-hearted thing to say, but it isn't because food costs have nothing to do with starvation. Starvation results from policies of politicians who don't answer to us.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:31:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: QT3.14
The most efficient way to use bio fuels is to burn it in a power generating plant.
Any kind of processing it into another kind of fuel will take more energy than it's worth.
Algae, grass, inedible and junk plants and most of all WOOD are excellent renewable resources to boot.
But anything good enough to be economically feasible, the greens will find some reason to be against it anyway.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:32:32 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: snoringbear
Not all algae are equal. There are just a few select types whose oil content is around 50% or better.
To: QT3.14
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:35:43 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: QT3.14
No! Really? Are you kidding? Burning food is not a good idea for saving the environment? Who would have guessed? Besides everybody with functioning intellect above IQ 45, who else? You mean MENSA didn't have this one whipped years ago.? Huh. Goes to show you that given enough time the obvious becomes, well, obvious. Now will they be able to make the radical leap that India and China combined far outstrips the meager pollution this country may produce.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:36:31 PM PDT
by
cashless
(Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
I prefer 20% biodiesel in my F250. The mileage went up about 3% when I switched, and I worry a lot less about my fuel pump and injectors knowing how much more lubricity biodiesel has.
And the fuel doesn’t stink up my hands and clothes.
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:40:12 PM PDT
by
Go_Raiders
(Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
To: QT3.14
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posted on
03/24/2014 5:47:02 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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