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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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Well there are upsides, I don't think this area of reseach is nearly as promising as fuel cells but you do point out an upside.
Someone else wondered if taking all the corn and converting to fuel really had any kind of impact here is a start
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/246743
and here
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/05/22/corn.html
and here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02...rtilla_bubble/
and lastly, here
http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=CBOT_C.U07&v=dmax
How about we all take a trip down to Mexico and explain to the folks who work all day for a wage that will barely cover food and rent that we need to run the prices of corn up in multiples to help heat our 2500 sq feet homes with 9 ft ceilings in the basement and run our SUV's that are empty most of the time. They may think we are a tad on the selfish side.