http://chrisabraham.com/2007/04/03/biodiesel-is-food-not-fuel-by-mark-harrison-2/ Because the Medium is the Message Wed, 09 May 2012 09:02:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://chrisabraham.com/2007/04/03/biodiesel-is-food-not-fuel-by-mark-harrison-2/#comment-3752 The Economics of French Toast < Chris Abraham Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:23:35 +0000 http://chrisabraham.com/?p=3908#comment-3752 [...] — in this case, but upping pricing on staple ingredients, just like Mark warned over on Biodiesel is Food Not Fuel by Mark Harrison: On Sunday night, I caught a great story on the rising costs of food, all told through the lens of [...] [...] — in this case, but upping pricing on staple ingredients, just like Mark warned over on Biodiesel is Food Not Fuel by Mark Harrison: On Sunday night, I caught a great story on the rising costs of food, all told through the lens of [...]

]]> http://chrisabraham.com/2007/04/03/biodiesel-is-food-not-fuel-by-mark-harrison-2/#comment-2399 Eric Mair Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:12:17 +0000 http://chrisabraham.com/?p=3908#comment-2399 I'n not saying either tht you are wron or that I disagree with you but your reasoning is somewhat askew. I think the biggest threat to food production is ethanol - the fermented variety. Cellulosic ethanol is a completely different animal and uses the WASTE products from many food crops - which is a win-win in my book. Where biodiesel is concerned, food oils such as palm and soy don't have the oil content to compete with jatropha and moringa, niether of which is a food crop and both of which will grow happily on land which is unsuitable for other drops with little or no attention between harvests. These plants are perfect for small production of "own use" diesel. I am an advocate if fossil fuel DISplacement rather than REplacement and I believe whatever we can achieve is better than sitting in the stands complaining. Electricity and hydrogen will be the main fuels for transport in the future. There will only be dinosaurs like me still running old internal combuston diesel engins in home-grown fuels. Keep up the good work!! Eric I’n not saying either tht you are wron or that I disagree with you but your reasoning is somewhat askew.
I think the biggest threat to food production is ethanol – the fermented variety. Cellulosic ethanol is a completely different animal and uses the WASTE products from many food crops – which is a win-win in my book.
Where biodiesel is concerned, food oils such as palm and soy don’t have the oil content to compete with jatropha and moringa, niether of which is a food crop and both of which will grow happily on land which is unsuitable for other drops with little or no attention between harvests. These plants are perfect for small production of “own use” diesel.
I am an advocate if fossil fuel DISplacement rather than REplacement and I believe whatever we can achieve is better than sitting in the stands complaining.
Electricity and hydrogen will be the main fuels for transport in the future. There will only be dinosaurs like me still running old internal combuston diesel engins in home-grown fuels.
Keep up the good work!!
Eric

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