Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

I don't recall where, but someone pointed out that ethanol only provides a 
small fraction of the energy used in Brazil.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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On 4/28/2006 at 11:07 PM Robert Norsen wrote:

>Why is Brazil showing a healthy economy operationg almost entirely on
>ethanol grown / produced from cane?
>
>  For one thing they use the entire plant, as we should for corn.  Stalks,
>cobs, weeds the works.
>  All of it in rough form anarobic digestion forms ethanol at lower cost
>and less energy used / enegy produced.
>
>  I think the computations made where net energy loss was computed the
>process was that used to make fine bourbon ethanol.   We need cheap reed
>eye rot gut.
>
>  Brazil then uses the waste product for compost / fetilizer.   ACT??
>
>  Brazil is also looking out to deep Atlantic ocean oil deposits with
>equipment that is amazin!.   Bob
>