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Posted by Andy in MN on August 13, 2005 at 11:30:43 from (12.175.230.37):
In Reply to: Re: Bio-Fuel Benefits? posted by Pharmall on August 13, 2005 at 08:33:17:
Pharmall, I'm not suggesting they are out right lieing. They are just not telling the whole story. It is sort of like these "six sigma" courses my company keeps sending me to. All they teach you to do is twist the numbers enough to make cost reductions look larger. I'm not sure, but in a couple years I think the engineering department will be a profit center on paper :). Patzek's background: - He is a previous Shell employee - He has served as an expert witness for Shell and Chevron - He is an on-going consultant with Shell and Chevron - He established the UC Oil Consortium in 1994 Pimentel’s background: - SOME of his research is funded by the petrolium industry (on this topic) - He has published several papers about the damage corn (as a plant, not being process) has on the environment. He claims that corn pollen is toxic to several endaged plants. I don't know. I'm definately not smart enough to complete a full blown study, but their findings don't make sense. Finally, if you treat the nuclear fision in the sun as the main energy source for 99.99999% of everything that is on the earth, corn is a much more efficient fuel than oil. Corn and oil are just capacitors to store the solar energy until we use it in a way we see fit.
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