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To: antiRepublicrat

“Effectively running your car on what you put down the toilet. I love it.”

In all honesty I have a concern about biomass fuels such as methanol produced from crops in that what about soil depletion and what to do about that problem. Any farmers or chemists out there have an answer?


107 posted on 02/04/2008 9:00:00 AM PST by Delacon (Don't Immanentize the Eschaton.)
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To: Delacon
In all honesty I have a concern about biomass fuels such as methanol produced from crops in that what about soil depletion and what to do about that problem.

The genius of lilies or duckweed is that there is no soil depletion. Duckweed doesn't even have real roots, just things that hang in the water and suck up nutrients. In fact, growing it helps solve other problems like sewage treatment and fertilizer runoff, where their nutrients are our waste.

111 posted on 02/04/2008 9:40:45 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Delacon

I grow hay.

Once established, grass requires minimal chemical input,no tilling, outputs tons of bio mass and actually builds up topsoil over time.

Corn on the otherhand does deplete the soil, and requires a lot of chemical input.


120 posted on 02/04/2008 4:23:02 PM PST by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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