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

[Michael Bailes]

 BIG ENERGY


OK
I just get the feeling that the hysterical anti-biofuels stuff is being
orchestrated, like the tobacco lobby.
Certainly there have been some early 'cock-ups' and subsiding corn ethanol
is a bit stupid.
(But the more everyone winges about Western- USA, EU, Japan, Korea,
Aust.-subsidies the more things stay the same).
Bio-fuels *have *to be a stop-gap measure for the planet, till we invent
something better.
Unfortuanely the 'bum rap' biofuels are getting in the States is rubbing off
on sugar-cane ethanol here.  Only one or two states have mandated 10%
ethanol and we do not have our own souce of fuel oil. It is all imported.
Biofuels have the *potential *to take our fuel supplies out of the hands of
a dozen companies/counties /people and making countless-thousand, little
businesses and happy farmers.
m [image: :twocents:]

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> 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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