Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Or, you could......
Via Science Daily:
I've got a better idea.
(1) Don't manufacture biofuel. Then you won't need gasoline to power the combines that are cutting corn for biofuel, and you won't need fertilizer made from natural gas, and you won't need diesel to run the trucks and trains that haul the fertilizer to the fields and the corn to the biofuel plants, and you won't need electricity to power the biofuel refinery, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the biofuel refinery, and you won't need to cut down tropical forests to clear more land for corn, and you won't need to starve millions of people and create riots and revolutions because you're forcing corn to go into biofuel instead of human stomachs.
(2) Feed the corn to the livestock directly. Then you won't need to handle DDGS, you won't need to spend energy building and running the special DDGS waste-to-energy plants, you won't need to hire specialists to run the DDGS waste-to-energy plants, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the DDGS waste-to-energy plants.
I know these are radical ideas. Nobody has ever thought of feeding corn to humans and livestock directly, but I'm betting it just might work. Why not try it?
Needless to say, nothing will change. Biofuel will continue to waste food and starve people and waste energy and cause riots and revolutions, as long as the grass shall grow and as long as the rivers shall flow and as long as the Iowa caucus shall happen in January. Well, actually only the last part.
A by-product of biofuel manufacture can power microbial fuel cells to generate electricity cheaply and efficiently.... The work could help develop self-powered devices that would depollute waste water and be used to survey weather in extreme environments.
Distillers Dried Grain with Solubles (DDGS) is a waste product from bioethanol production that is commonly used as a low-cost animal feed. Researchers from the University of Surrey incorporated DDGS together with bacteria-inoculated sludge from a waste water treatment plant in their microbial fuel cell....
I've got a better idea.
(1) Don't manufacture biofuel. Then you won't need gasoline to power the combines that are cutting corn for biofuel, and you won't need fertilizer made from natural gas, and you won't need diesel to run the trucks and trains that haul the fertilizer to the fields and the corn to the biofuel plants, and you won't need electricity to power the biofuel refinery, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the biofuel refinery, and you won't need to cut down tropical forests to clear more land for corn, and you won't need to starve millions of people and create riots and revolutions because you're forcing corn to go into biofuel instead of human stomachs.
(2) Feed the corn to the livestock directly. Then you won't need to handle DDGS, you won't need to spend energy building and running the special DDGS waste-to-energy plants, you won't need to hire specialists to run the DDGS waste-to-energy plants, and you won't need gas for the cars of the employees of the DDGS waste-to-energy plants.
I know these are radical ideas. Nobody has ever thought of feeding corn to humans and livestock directly, but I'm betting it just might work. Why not try it?
Needless to say, nothing will change. Biofuel will continue to waste food and starve people and waste energy and cause riots and revolutions, as long as the grass shall grow and as long as the rivers shall flow and as long as the Iowa caucus shall happen in January. Well, actually only the last part.
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