Re: growining interest/potential in biofuels.....

On 15 Jun 2006 05:46:09 -0700, stewart_bristol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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abelard wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:43:47 +0100, hummingbird
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typed:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:32:51 +0200 'abelard'
posted this onto uk.politics.misc:

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4079
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4081
"In 2005, Brazil produced 16.5 billion liters of fuel ethanol (45.2
percent of the world's total) with the United States a close second at
16.2 billion liters, or 44.5 percent of the total. Ethanol provides
roughly 40 percent of Brazil's non-diesel fuel and 2 - 3 percent of
U.S. non-diesel fuel.

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Did you miss this other article on the WorldWatch website?:
"The Other Side of Nuclear Waste"
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4101

"The residents of Kara Agach, a mountain village in western Kyrgystan,
are receiving radiation doses as much as 40 times the internationally
recognized safety limit,

do you really expect adequate safety standards in kyrgystan...
it's a repressive dictatorship

presently you have no choice beyond massive expansion of nuclear power...
probably also the cleanest and cheapest energy available...

expensive - you'd never get a private company building one if they were
liable for the waste and decomissioning

a great deal of what has held up nuclear power has been governments
changing rules part way through development....immense delays via
pseudo-legal obstructionism is another part.....

there is no safe/perfect energy system....it is a matter of balancing
risks and costs, including environmental costs....
further, almost all the quick fixes of the ill-informed pseudo-greens
come nowhere in sight of solving the sheer scale of the problems...

nuclear power looks to me the best options....

biofuels face immense problem and probably compete with food....
biofuels may well contribute but it is neither straght-forward of certain.

clean coal and carbon sequestration, marine wind turbines and chp.
piece of piss. and we would get these in by having a free market and
carbon tax - that's if you believe in global warming

anyone who does not 'believe in' global warming is a dedicated
ostrich....

carbon sequestration is mostly dreaming atm....only one or two small
projects are under development....it might work but of course that
also will mean considerable cost increase....
windmills do not provide reliable background power...they may contribute
in due course but there are several concerns and problems....the
bigger they get the greater the servicing problems....
there are potential weather problems with really large scale projects.
it requires building thousands of large windmills to replace just one
conventional power station....that takes considerable resources....
transporting electricity from distant and dispersed sites is not
simple...
there is even considerable concern that wind patterns are shifting
with growing global warming....

start here....
http://www.abelard.org/briefings/replacing_fossil_fuels.htm


yak note...please include the details above in wind section of
energy 3

regards...

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