[Terrapreta] Reality Check

[lou gold]

Today's Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article on sugar cane
ethanol production in Brazil.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119059655657036929.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The traditional cane harvesting methods probably added char to the soil as
well as pollution to the air, horrible working conditions, etc. The
prominent current solution is mechanization (and all the problems it
brings). Somehow we must step of adopting techno-fixes that only push the
problems around.


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