Comments on RE: The Morning News — Biofuels

It has always seemed to me that - as cars are a threat to our dwidling oil supply, agriculture is to our (arguably more important) dwindling water supply. From a purely "the-human-fucking-race-is-going-to-destroy-itself-and-here's-how" standpoint, I don't see ANY advantage to biofuels. (and we're obviously not talking about restaurant waste oil here, hippies, so settle down.)

there are so many other species that would work better to produce ethanol than crop waste! soybeans and corn can only do so much. why don't we use these other species - these quick-growing, compact, pleasant grasses - to make our ethanol instead? then we might not need to genetically modify the bacteria at all.

@1 - don't throw out the baby with the bathwater - grow algae in it instead. Industrial scale algal culturing has the potential to clean up tertiary wastewater and scrub industrial carbon dioxide, all the while producing high energy liquid fuels. Such an approach will not compete directly for food (like corn/soy/canola), nor necessarily even indirectly for the land that crops grow on. I have seen the future and it involves a lot of algae powering a lot of transport.

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