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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
If only it were that simple, the quality of plant required to produce fuel is much lower than one in which can be used for human consumption. If fuel prices are really high than farmers are more likely willing to forsake quality for yield and the food part gets wasted anyway and as this happens then there's less food on the market and then those prices go higher until we reach an equalibrium world where both fuel and food prices are higher than the baseline. Both vital components of our existance. Therefore maybe it's the wrong tree to bark up when looking for an alternative to gasoline from petroleum.
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So you can sell BOTH the ear of corn, and then the residual biomass, for more money than you could doing either of the other alone, but you're saying that farmers are electing to do one or the other? I guess the farmers here in Arizona are just a little smarter than the rest, because they double dip with the encouragement of the utility companies. But then again, SRP and APS are both progressive and use all technology to their advanatage to make power and encourage their customers to do the same. Heck, APS is actually capturing CO2 and using algae to make ethanol, and then burning the biomass from that process to create more power. It's really funny what we can do when we actually try and don't take the defeatest mentality. But to get past that, you have to get off the O&G teet, which will never happen in Alberta. The minds there have been poisoned to believe that the only solution to our energy needs comes in the forms of rotting dinosaur and plant materials from several million years ago. That is the first challenge up there, just like getting past the whole religiosity issue is the first step to redeveloping Americans intellectual advantage over the rest of the world.