[Terrapreta] Your input needed: "Soil health" at Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels

[lou gold]

Michael,

I'm not sure about BIG OIL. I believe that they are really BIG ENERGY
companies that are involved in supplying the agricultural and transportation
empires. I don't think that they are too fussy about the feedstock as long
as they get  to process and deliver it. Actually the dominant modern
agriculture is a agro-chemical-petro constellation. I don't know the actual
facts but I speculate that the oil companies are investing heavily in less
expensive (or more subsidized) forms of fuels.

It's important to note that the subsidies (or tariffs) for US ethanol go to
both oil companies and corn farming. Today, the NY Times editorialized
against continued support for US corn ethanol:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11sun1.html?hp

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You may be interested in this
>
> http://hypography.com/forums/terra-preta/11716-what-plants-might-grown-just-bio.html
>
> Dynamotive is producing Bio-oil from pyrolysis and is experimenting with
> it as a soil amendment-fertiliser-additive
> Michael
>
> BIG OIL does not like biofuels; Do they?
>
> 2008/5/1 Laurens Rademakers <lrademakers at biopact.com>:
>
> >  Hi,
> > I'm part of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (at the Ecole
> > Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's Energy Center), which is developing
> > social, environmental and other sustainability criteria for biofuels. It
> > does so in a set of discussion groups
> >
>
>
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