by "djimbo" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 14, 2008 at 11:10 AM
"Ken" <kkerrison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:032adfa8-9b81-4a54-8782-e18ea32b0ac2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Or ethanol - the US petrol-substitute. Except that each litre of
> ethanol (usually made from corn) requires more than the energy-input
> equivalent to a litre of petrol, to produce. Not to mention vast
> amounts of water and big increases in the price of corn - with all
> sorts of unpleasant consequences (and despoilation of vast areas of
> marginal land as corn-growers try to increase the supply).
Hiya Ken.
The bio-fuel of choice these days (around here anyway) seems to be
green diesel made out of rape seed oil and the like.
Loads of farmers in our area have turned over to it due the getting more
for it, one other side effect being that practicaly everyone in the area
now
suffers from hay-fever, sinusitus or combintions of such nasal problems.
Small price to pay to save a dying planet??
Djimbo.
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