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Place all your ethanol contacts and thoughts here for the 2nd annual Renewed Perspectives Renewable Energy Forum...."Whatever benefits flow from ethanol and biofuel production will not generally flow to small- and medium-sized farmers as large-scale energy production will be dependent on large-scale grain production and will increasingly become corporatized"
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Ethanol as a Renewable Fuel: An Overview
Presented by: David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Ethanol is regularly in the news as new plants are proposed and existing plants expand. What are the environmental impacts of ethanol production and use as a motor vehicle fuel? David Morris will give an overview of ethanol and the historical development of the fuel and industry. He will also discuss its economics, energy balance, emissions issues, and feedstock sources and limits.
David Morris is the Vice President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. He has been an energy advisor or consultant to the energy administrations of Presidents Ford, Carter, Clinton and George W. Bush. He is the author of five books on energy, including The Carbohydrate Economy. He directs the Institute's New Rules Project www.newrules.org/
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Ethanol does not appear to be a viable source of fuel for our economy's future. It will only serve to drive up the price of feed and land causing the use of marginal soils. The use of the organic matter to feed an unquenchable thirst will degraid our lands and compromise our values.
We need to cut out the middle man and concentrate on solar power. It makes the wind blow and the plants grow. While wind is a piece of the solution, the widespread use of windfarms can harm migratory birds. They can be used as a supplement and the market for ideas should be open to ideas for wind. (can we protect the birds?)
It seems that ethanol is not the complete solution. We need to eliminate greenhouse gases and only solar has the potential to make a hydrogen and/or electric powered society possible.
-Brendan McEntegart
Ecowatch member
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