A few things come to mind.Damage to the ocean by: the creation of huge dead zones; death of coral reefs due to CO2 induced acidity; devolutional shift to a jelly-fish, red tide, and toxic slime-dominated ocean ecology as fisheries collapse; huge gyres of plastic trash clogging vast areas of the Pacific, diminished brain function and seizeures in marine mammals and other creatures due to toxic algae thriving on ag pollutants.
Lack of real accounting of the energy used to create and transport the fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and seed corn for the corn crop.
Damage to the environment from the above factors.
Damage to soils from chemically intensive corn production.--
Depletion of aquifers to irrigate corn and water cattle.
Damage to the ozone from the methane that doesn't get captured from all that manure.
This might be a good way to partially mitigate the disaster of modern feedlot agriculture, but I doubt it will be the silver bullet that allows us to go on being energy gluttons for the indefinite future.
Scott Vlaun
Moose Pond Arts+Ecology
Design Solutions for a Sustainable Future
On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Bill McDorman wrote:
An interesting challenge to some commonly held assumptions about
biofuels in the latest issue of Wired Magazine:
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/ethanol.html
I would be interested in other comments.
bill
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