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CrystalRadio on September 16, 2007 - 7:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

Of course if you don’t care about climate change then you just burn coal. If you do care about climate change, you have certainly to embrace biofuels and if you’re going to burn coal you have to burn it cleanly.

And when you embrace biofuels to mitigate climate change you mitigate world population increase. Talk about win win, at least for some.

I think we can look fforward to a so-called second generation of biofuels made from agricultural waste products, or byproducts as they are more properly called, such as straw.

Hey, why not eliminate the straw and just burn dirt...oh yes first they burn the straw which starves the soil and turns it into dirt and then they burn the dirt. Wow! Another win win situation!

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bmcnett on September 17, 2007 - 1:54am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

You said it CrystalRadio. Ancient agriculture took centuries to convert forest to desert. Now that we have biofuels, we can do the job in decades! HOORAY PROGRESS!

For the ultimate in efficiency, we should burn our own bodies for fuel. Then we solve the population problem AND the fuel problem at once! WIN WIN!

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Roger on September 17, 2007 - 8:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Well.... burning the bodies won't help at all.

I did the calculation; suppose that 5 billion would be scraficed and turned into biofuels, that calloric content would equal to 7 days of oil useage by the remaining 1.5 billion.

So, it would only give us a week....

Roger from the Netherlands

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