I just want to through the following link into our recent discussion about biofuel. Not to support 'my view', but rather to question it!?:
http://www.discover.umn.edu/featuredDiscoveries/biomassBreakthrough.php
What Tilman suggsets here is in fact growing biomass in natural prairie grasslands for biofuel production. The growing principles are pretty much permaculture. The ethics of course are not.
You should also listen to the podcast interview (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5952/527/DC2 )
with Steven Hamburg, coauthor with David Tilman and others on a paper in the latest Science magazine issue with the title: Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error.
I am not sure if I am allowed to attach the article here, as it is not open source but only accessable to subscribers. Maybe Lawrence knows and can say something. I have got the pdf and could attach it here.
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