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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
An interesting documentary on Scifi tonight pointed out the developing technologies that will help the world move away from the dependence on oil, and one of them was the amazing advances that have been made in the arenas of bio-diesel and ethanol plants. Genetically manipulated bacteria are now being used to generate more fuel than ever before, and from strictly waste products from plants like corn and canola. The fuel is collected from the leaves and stalks of the plant, not the food source itself. It is solutions like this that are the future. Turning our waste products into energy is the wave of the future and could make many of our problems today disappear. But then again, that's likely just me being a combination of selfish and ignorant.
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That would be one heck of an advancement, since currently it IS the food stuffs that are the catalyst to getting ethanol. Reminds me of the "guns or butter" saying from WWII. Now it's "food or fuel".
I am not sold at all on ethanol or biodiesel. Too many starving people in the world to use up all the nutrients in the soil to power SUV's. Another red herring here, IMO.