Re: [asa] tractors are needed to grow corn

Also you're going to need energy for distillation to get ethanol of any
strength.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Mahaffy" <Mahaffy@dordt.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:37 PM
Subject: [asa] tractors are needed to grow corn

>>>> "j burg" <hossradbourne@gmail.com> 06/13/08 9:53 AM >>>
> On 6/13/08, drsyme@cablespeed.com <drsyme@cablespeed.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is it just me or does it seem obvious that, in the big picture, the
>> answer
>> to both of these problems is the same? We have to stop burning fossil
>> fuels.
>>
> Yes. Interesting enough, ethanol does not have GW effects. An ear of
> corn, whether it rots on the stalk, is eaten, or turned into fuel,
> only returns to the atmosphere what it already used in growing.
>
> I have yet seen corn grown without a lot of fossil fuel for the tractor
> and that takes fossil fuel.
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