Posts by donfletcher

You never read carefully. As a farmer I do not mind if ethanol production raises the cost of food. But I am concerned if people are selling the story that we can all power our cars using garbage as substrate. There is some garbage...

Why can't electric vehicles be cost competetive when we are being told how much more economical they are. There appears to be a disjoint between the story being told and this urgent request for funding. Why do the people asking for...

Personally, I could care less about the Stupid reply you make gnpc.You have absolutely no interest in having the earth produce plant life, consume CO2, store water, or anything else. You are in this only for immediate outputs of...

That Blume site is a mess of promotion that I wandered around in for too long to think I would ever learn anything worth while there.Perhaps Blume is assuming I would just go out and buy a book and a couple DVDs in hope that I would...

I know for a fact that bufalo are being raised in confinement, ie inside of fences, on a farm just south east of Parkhill, Ontario. But when we start saying use grass fed animals, we are talking mostly ruminants, in current...

An assumption that creating charcoal will cause release of  light organic hydrocarbons is partly based on the assumption that we would not be capturing those hydrocarbons and creating liquid and gaseous fuel with them. The...

Our original poster does acknowledge that corn ethanol is inefficient. I live in a corn growing area, and so we have done some how to use corn studies.We discussed building a corn burning steam power system in stead of using ethanol.The...

This issue is not going to be decided by people with no interest in the methods used.It will be decided by industries dealing with cap and trade if they are discussing using a membrane to remove CO2 from the air. It will be decided by...

GCNP.  You totally lose me. Your terminology will not convey anything to most people with my ever so slight knowledge, or less.I hope you learn to communicate with we who have only  a BSc degree. So I will just bow out of...

You have just restated my original position, that by ocean driving CO2 into the atmosphere we set up conditions for atmospheric CO2 to increase the acidity of the ocean. Put another way, asumptions about CO2 leaving the ocean and thus...