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   11/29/08

   lettershome

   Unless you're using sugar cane like the Brazilians have done quite successfully, corn and other products don't return the carbon that's needed to grow and process the biofuel in the first place. In other words, you usemore energy to produce the fuel than you get as fuel. Or the returns are so marginal, and use up so much more valuable farmland that could be used as crops to feed people, or contribute to deforestation to make way for farms to grow the fuels.
   ... biofuels are not the answer.

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   11/29/08

   virtualme

   I'm too pessimistic about this biofuel, I think in the future it will leave the majority of people on the planet without food, so that a minority can drive cars.

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      11/30/08

      PotatoChef

      I kinda think you might be 1/2 right. It is ridiculous that anybody should go hungry so others can have gas to drive their cars.
      
      Biofuel can work but it can't be either fuel or food.
3. 

   11/29/08

   diabolicomix

   Is there anything sweet potatoes can't do?

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      11/29/08

      PotatoChef

      Well, sweet potatoes can't sing and dance. You guys need to read the article...I think it talks about your concerns.
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   11/30/08

   carrieburrows

   This is good news. I don't like eating them.

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   11/30/08

   Arcticulates

   I think the next fuel source will come from cow manure.
   I like the idea of sweet potatoes, but then again it would make sweet potatoes outta my reach... too expensive, which would be sad cuz sweet potatoes are my favorite potato.

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      11/30/08

      PotatoChef

      I get strange visions when I think about cow manure being used to power the PotatoChefMobile.
      
      Arcticulates...here is an early Christmas present for you:
      
      www.potatopatchrecipes.com/2008/11/sweet-potato-biscuits-recipe/
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   11/30/08

   wehireu

   One of the biofuels with the most promise right now comes from algae which is very cheap to produce and a non food crop. Solix biofuels is working on algae biofuels. Aquaflow Bionomics in New Zealand is on the way to large scale commercialization of biocrude, they just received $30 million for a large scale commercial plant. They grow algae in settling ponds from sewage creating a double whammy clean water (bioremediation) and biofuel. Aquaflow is also currently working on production of biojet fuel with Boeing.

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