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196 comments on Will biofuels always be hopeless?

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Glenn on May 26, 2006 - 8:12am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Completely agree that the best first step toward proving a positive EROEI is for the farmer to start using the biodiesel to run all the equipment on the farm. If it doesn't make economic sense for the farmer to use their own production to save money, then I think we can safely say that it is not self sustaining.

The best way to produce any bio based fuel is to start with the immense amounts of waste in all sectors of the economy.

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wkwillis on May 26, 2006 - 9:40am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
As long as he doesn't take his tractor on a public road he can run it on biodiesel, tax free. That's a major savings right there.
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nathanw on May 29, 2006 - 10:42am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Fuels for farm use are already exempt from taxes, under the idea that the taxes are supposed to pay for roads, which the farm use isn't affecting.
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capik on October 17, 2006 - 5:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
To destroy weed seeds in your field in a biological way, you can use fungus to 'eat' the weed seeds.   But you need carbon to get the fungus to 'bloom'.   Putting 6 ton of finished compost PER acre (thats alot of compost bob!)

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