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Thanks for your post Kishan,

I am definitely in agreement with you concerning renewable sources such 
as wind, solar, waves, geothermal, etc...  For one, as investment and 
demand increase the above listed renewables will become much more 
efficient and therefore the overall energy cost will continue to delcine 
and second, they do not use up the available land as you have stated and 
thirdly, in the long run they require much less human input (labor) for 
production and maintenance than biofuels would.

Scott

Kishan Mehta wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This issue no: 8), it appears, is devoted to Miscanthus, a 
> vegetation about which a lot of misunderstanding and 
> nonunderstanding prevails. Yet there is a growing feeling 
> for large scale planting to meet the increasing wasteful 
> energy consumption.  Now that oil has hit the peak levels,  
> nations and people are looking for alternate energy sources.   
>
> Renewable energy sources like solar, wind, waves freely 
> available in plenty are one group of reource.  Miscanthus, 
> Jetropha are another vegetative produce is another 
> group that depends on land, soil, water nad other natural 
> but finite sources to grow. The difference is that the first 
> group is limitless while the second dependent on given 
> nautral sources scarce in supply.
>
> We look to this issue from a slightly different angle.   
> Many poor countries, India and China included,  
> highly populated, need to attend to food neds hence 
> any diversion to non-food activity would affect the 
> food security of the country.   True,  quantum of food 
> availabilty globally is adequate. The USA for instance
> can feed the entire world.   The question is whether 
> poor countries should  depend on highly industrialised 
> and precariously subsidised food production (farms 
> without farmers approach) to take out hardly 
> adequate land from producing food for their  
> millions for cultivating energy vegetation to 
> maintain the same level of wastefyll life style 
> that damages the earth and its envirinment?  
> Should this generation of Homo Sapiens Erectus 
> use up everything to quicken the disappearance of 
> life from hte earth?
>
> Two apporaches one of spenidng everything to 
> meet materialistic level of living and another 
> of reducing the level of living to sustain the 
> earth.  We would prefer the second which 
> demands of every human to live responsibily.
>
> Would like to receive reactions nad comments 
> from the Permaculture angle from avowed 
> permaculturists that you all are. Best wishes ,
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