[permaculture] Corn Ethanol's Dirty Little Secret

Toby Hemenway toby at patternliteracy.com
Thu Aug 30 11:35:11 EDT 2007


Sean Maley wrote:
> All of these things trace back to the storage of the sun's energy at some point.
Amen. And the thing to keep in mind when talking about biofuels is that one year's current consumption of petroleum products represents roughly 400 years of stored solar energy. You just can't get there with biofuels. The only ways around the limitation imposed by solar budget are technologies like nuclear fission and fusion, which do have their drawbacks.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com



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