[chaosagent]

"Just converting all the U.S. agricultural waste into oil and gas would yield the energy equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil annually. "

"A nice dream but doing it would present quite a number of logistical nightmares"

How so? Think about it. Just about all agricultural products are shipped to a central facility. Milk, corn, wheat, soybeans, etc., all get shipped out.

Now the waste will too.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

How so?

My thought was not of the waste but of distributing the end product. Infrastructure to deliver the oil etc. would need to be built and that means using energy. There would likely need to be a large network of delivery pipelines to a central depot or several depots from which trucking could then distribute it.

No matter what the hurdles are, I'm all for it.