Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951117081355.14738B-100000@dante> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 08:25:34 -0700 From: WANDEMBERG <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Alcohol Fuels To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Ade Angwafo III wrote:> It is true that the technology that makes it feasible to use liquid fuel
> from biomass in the automotive industry (& related areas) has been proven.
> However, I do not think the percentage yield of alcohol derived from trees
> is higher than 30% (an estimated efficiency IC engines). Aslo, I'm not
> exactly sure why you assume that the production of such fuels by the 3 & 4
> World (your classification) is an important key to averting global climate
> disaster.
>
> The production of such fuel seems to me, as is being undertaken in
> Brazil, to require vast area of fertile land. It also requires a careful
> and intensive management of the trees, the sugar, the corn and other
> crops from which this alcohol is derived from. Without such forestry
> management scheme, you'll simply replace one disaster with another, a
> case of curing my headache by sending me deep into a coma. Agriculture in
> this our 3 & 4 worlds is not capital intensive and you therefore need
> huge chunks of that precious commodity called land. Where is the fertile
> land?
>
> Personally, I believe that there will be no significant trend away from
> the consumption of crude oil (petrol, etc) unless the major oil companies
> (like those shelling-out the ogoniland) push forward the alternatives.
> What say ya?
>
I wholeheartedly support your position !
With respect to: "Why pay a huge price for war when peace is available at a tiny fraction of such a cost?"
Unfortunately the answwer is: Because those making wars are not the ones paying the price but the ones the getting paid. AND WE MUST STOP IT!
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