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To: Myrddin
Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels

What "biomass" is targeted as the input to this process? Will it affect food prices or skew farming practices away from food producing activities?

"Here, we show that efficient and sustainable hydrogen production is possible from any type of biodegradable organic matter by electrohydrogenesis."

I didn't read the pdf, but I got the impression it could use almost anything with a biological origin.

If we can get energy independence, it’s a three for one deal. It defunds a lot of bad guys, it helps our current accounts deficit, aka trade deficit, and it stops the drop in the value of the US dollar.

73 posted on 11/13/2007 6:29:57 PM PST by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: neverdem
and it stops the drop in the value of the US dollar

I don't buy it. The dollar is falling because the Fed is printing money at a furious pace and the government is spending money far in excess of income.

I didn't read the pdf, but I got the impression it could use almost anything with a biological origin.

Useless eaters? Biodiesel already has a line on a viable conversion of specific kinds of biological refuse. There are plants online. It's practical now, yet it hardly makes a dent in our energy demands.

74 posted on 11/13/2007 6:46:08 PM PST by Myrddin
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