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Why switchgrass will not work as biofuel! America is headed foranother Bush made disaster worse than the Iraq war! |
I keep working on my biofuel hoax essay, and have added the following
important passage which contains a killer argument against biofuel use
that I have not heard from other critics of the energy scheme. The
entire Bush plan can be destroyed in a little over 200 words.
Excerpted from "The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
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"If we grow switchgrass for biofuel on "marginal" prairie land, we
will soon turn that marginal land into a desert and a dust bowl, which
it may turn into anyway due to global warming, which biofuel use will
not stop.
Computer models for the progression of global warming show the
America Midwest and Southwest getting hotter and dryer, with much of
our farm and grazing land turning into desert. We know that biofuel
use will do nothing to stop this progression, so why are we pinning so
much hope on an energy and environmental battle plan that any fool can
see will blow up in our face over time. We won't be able to produce
enough biofuels to run our cars, or enough food to fill our bellies!
The biofuel scheme is another example of a basic lack of intelligence
of our politicians, many of whom also voted for the disastrous Iraq
war despite the warnings of more thoughtful advisers. If you cannot
plan ahead and anticipate future trends, then you will lead this
nation into one disaster after another, which is exactly what is
occurring right now in Washington DC. Our Congress has become a
chorus of stupidity, and our politicians are leading us to national
suicide, not to the nirvana of energy independence."
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Merry Christmas, Christopher Calder
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html - full essay with
mind blowing facts and figures!
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| Title: Re: Why switchgrass will not work as biofuel! America is headed foranother Bush made disaster worse than the Iraq war! |
24 Dec 2007 01:22:30 PM |
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On Dec 23, 2:53 pm, "calderh...@yahoo.com" <calderh...@yahoo.com>
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I keep working on my biofuel hoax essay, and have added the following
important passage which contains a killer argument against biofuel use
that I have not heard from other critics of the energy scheme. The
entire Bush plan can be destroyed in a little over 200 words.
Excerpted from "The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
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"If we grow switchgrass for biofuel on "marginal" prairie land, we
will soon turn that marginal land into a desert and a dust bowl, which
it may turn into anyway due to global warming, which biofuel use will
not stop.
Computer models for the progression of global warming show the
America Midwest and Southwest getting hotter and dryer, with much of
our farm and grazing land turning into desert. We know that biofuel
use will do nothing to stop this progression, so why are we pinning so
much hope on an energy and environmental battle plan that any fool can
see will blow up in our face over time. We won't be able to produce
enough biofuels to run our cars, or enough food to fill our bellies!
The biofuel scheme is another example of a basic lack of intelligence
of our politicians, many of whom also voted for the disastrous Iraq
war despite the warnings of more thoughtful advisers. If you cannot
plan ahead and anticipate future trends, then you will lead this
nation into one disaster after another, which is exactly what is
occurring right now in Washington DC. Our Congress has become a
chorus of stupidity, and our politicians are leading us to national
suicide, not to the nirvana of energy independence."
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Merry Christmas, Christopher Calderhttp://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html- full essay with
mind blowing facts and figures!
Geez, guy, the editorial board of every paper in America writes a the
left side panel ever day. You can't even churn out 800 words in how
long?
Now what I'd like to see is some facts. You haven't provided any so...
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| User: "Rightwinghank" |
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| Title: Re: Why switchgrass will not work as biofuel! America is headed foranother Bush made disaster worse than the Iraq war! |
23 Dec 2007 02:01:39 PM |
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On Dec 23, 2:53=A0pm, "calderh...@yahoo.com" <calderh...@yahoo.com>
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I keep working on my biofuel hoax essay, and have added the following
important passage which contains a killer argument against biofuel use
that I have not heard from other critics of the energy scheme. =A0The
entire Bush plan can be destroyed in a little over 200 words.
Excerpted from "The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
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"If we grow switchgrass for biofuel on "marginal" prairie land, we
will soon turn that marginal land into a desert and a dust bowl, which
it may turn into anyway due to global warming, which biofuel use will
not stop.
=A0 =A0 =A0Computer models for the progression of global warming show the
America Midwest and Southwest getting hotter and dryer, with much of
our farm and grazing land turning into desert. =A0We know that biofuel
use will do nothing to stop this progression, so why are we pinning so
much hope on an energy and environmental battle plan that any fool can
see will blow up in our face over time. =A0We won't be able to produce
enough biofuels to run our cars, or enough food to fill our bellies!
The biofuel scheme is another example of a basic lack of intelligence
of our politicians, many of whom also voted for the disastrous Iraq
war despite the warnings of more thoughtful advisers. =A0If you cannot
plan ahead and anticipate future trends, then you will lead this
nation into one disaster after another, which is exactly what is
occurring right now in Washington DC. =A0Our Congress has become a
chorus of stupidity, and our politicians are leading us to national
suicide, not to the nirvana of energy independence."
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Merry Christmas, =A0Christopher Calderhttp://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-=
fuel-hoax.html- full essay with
mind blowing facts and figures!
Bush didnt do it......
Blame the tree hugging liberals for it...going back 35 years.....
They didnt want nuke electricity .....France is 85 percent nuke...
They didnt want drilling for oil offshore.
They didnt want drilling for oil in alaska.
They dont want coal burning for electricity.
Who are these liberals? Democrats all.
love
hank
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| User: "PerfectlyAble" |
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| Title: Re: Why switchgrass will not work as biofuel! America is headed foranother Bush made disaster worse than the Iraq war! |
23 Dec 2007 02:47:31 PM |
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On Dec 24, 9:01 am, Rightwinghank <rightwingh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 23, 2:53 pm, "calderh...@yahoo.com" <calderh...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I keep working on my biofuel hoax essay, and have added the following
important passage which contains a killer argument against biofuel use
that I have not heard from other critics of the energy scheme. The
entire Bush plan can be destroyed in a little over 200 words.
Excerpted from "The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
------------------------
"If we grow switchgrass for biofuel on "marginal" prairie land, we
will soon turn that marginal land into a desert and a dust bowl, which
it may turn into anyway due to global warming, which biofuel use will
not stop.
Computer models for the progression of global warming show the
America Midwest and Southwest getting hotter and dryer, with much of
our farm and grazing land turning into desert. We know that biofuel
use will do nothing to stop this progression, so why are we pinning so
much hope on an energy and environmental battle plan that any fool can
see will blow up in our face over time. We won't be able to produce
enough biofuels to run our cars, or enough food to fill our bellies!
The biofuel scheme is another example of a basic lack of intelligence
of our politicians, many of whom also voted for the disastrous Iraq
war despite the warnings of more thoughtful advisers. If you cannot
plan ahead and anticipate future trends, then you will lead this
nation into one disaster after another, which is exactly what is
occurring right now in Washington DC. Our Congress has become a
chorus of stupidity, and our politicians are leading us to national
suicide, not to the nirvana of energy independence."
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Merry Christmas, Christopher Calderhttp://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html-full essay with
mind blowing facts and figures!
Bush didnt do it......
I know the President is powerless.
Blame the tree hugging liberals for it...going back 35 years.....
Oh so you believe liberals believe they are always right.
Fool on you.
They didnt want nuke electricity .....France is 85 percent nuke...
They didn't want nuke war, but they are always open
to seeing reason unlike the current President who
once again is avoiding his duty.
They didnt want drilling for oil offshore.
They didnt want drilling for oil in alaska.
They dont want coal burning for electricity.
Who are these liberals? Democrats all.
love
hank
Clearly crop bio-fuels was a really bad idea.
High quality produce, high up the food chain,
akin to having lions pull carts. Food has
so much more value in human stomachs.
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| User: "Marinus van der Lubbe" |
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| Title: Re: Why switchgrass will not work as biofuel! America is headed foranother Bush made disaster worse than the Iraq war! |
23 Dec 2007 03:06:26 PM |
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Rightwinghank wrote:
On Dec 23, 2:53 pm, "calderh...@yahoo.com" <calderh...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I keep working on my biofuel hoax essay, and have added the following
important passage which contains a killer argument against biofuel use
that I have not heard from other critics of the energy scheme. The
entire Bush plan can be destroyed in a little over 200 words.
Excerpted from "The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!" at:
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
------------------------
"If we grow switchgrass for biofuel on "marginal" prairie land, we
will soon turn that marginal land into a desert and a dust bowl, which
it may turn into anyway due to global warming, which biofuel use will
not stop.
Computer models for the progression of global warming show the
America Midwest and Southwest getting hotter and dryer, with much of
our farm and grazing land turning into desert. We know that biofuel
use will do nothing to stop this progression, so why are we pinning so
much hope on an energy and environmental battle plan that any fool can
see will blow up in our face over time. We won't be able to produce
enough biofuels to run our cars, or enough food to fill our bellies!
The biofuel scheme is another example of a basic lack of intelligence
of our politicians, many of whom also voted for the disastrous Iraq
war despite the warnings of more thoughtful advisers. If you cannot
plan ahead and anticipate future trends, then you will lead this
nation into one disaster after another, which is exactly what is
occurring right now in Washington DC. Our Congress has become a
chorus of stupidity, and our politicians are leading us to national
suicide, not to the nirvana of energy independence."
-------------------------
Merry Christmas, Christopher Calderhttp://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html- full essay with
mind blowing facts and figures!
Bush didnt do it......
Blame the tree hugging liberals for it...going back 35 years.....
They didnt want nuke electricity .....France is 85 percent nuke...
They didnt want drilling for oil offshore.
They didnt want drilling for oil in alaska.
They dont want coal burning for electricity.
Who are these liberals? Democrats all.
Hey, this is being posted on alt.politics.greens We can tell you that it
is not Democrats all. More like Democrats none. For the first time in
decades CAFE has been raised on personal cars--but starting 2020--twelve
freaking years away at a lame-***** 35 mpg. Hell, even a Ford Model A
built in 1928 using a single barrel carburetor and low piston
compression of 3:1 versus 9:1 got 30 mpg.
What you are doing is regurgitating oil company propaganda. They want us
hooked on petroleum, especially as it is running out. Then they can make
fatter and fatter profits, and they can make extra profit on fueling our
global war machine that fights on THEIR behalf. Or did the fact that the
top three most profitable companies in history have been Exxon/Mobile?
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| User: "" |
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24 Dec 2007 03:36:13 PM |
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On Dec 23, 1:06=A0pm, Marinus van der Lubbe <m...@reichstagsbrand.de>
wrote:
"What you are doing is regurgitating oil company propaganda. They want
us
hooked on petroleum, especially as it is running out. Then they can make
fatter and fatter profits, and they can make extra profit on fueling our
global war machine that fights on THEIR behalf. Or did the fact that the
top three most profitable companies in history have been Exxon/Mobile?-"
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I support hydrogen fuel produced by nuclear power to run cars and
trucks, not oil. The oil companies do not want hydrogen cars. Your
comments make no sense at all.
=2E
see: http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!
by Christopher Calder
On December 19th, 2007, George W. Bush signed into law an
historic
energy bill that mandates massive increases in the production of
ethanol,
which is to be used as "biofuel" to run automobiles and trucks.
Ethanol is
currently made from corn and other foodstuffs, and all of the various
forms
of biofuel, including "biodiesel," are made from food or from inedible
crops
which displace normal agricultural activity. Even at current limited
levels
of biofuel production, this "renewable energy source" has already
caused
huge increases in the price of food around the world, which can be
experienced firsthand at any supermarket in America. Unfortunately,
consumers/voters are undereducated as to exactly why food prices have
risen
so dramatically.
The United Nations has officially stated that its charity
programs can
no longer afford to feed the starving peoples of the world because of
the
high cost of food due to biofuel production. Local food banks in the
United
States are running low on supplies, and many families who use to
contribute
to food banks are now in need of help themselves. When farmers plant
more
corn in order to cash in on artificially high corn prices created by
political biofuel mandates, they plant less wheat and fewer vegetables
and
other crops, and thus food prices rise across the board. We use corn
to
feed chickens and cattle, so the price of poultry, beef, and dairy
products
have risen substantially and will continue to rise with no end in
sight.
The advocacy and use of biofuels is one of the greatest
political
hoaxes in American history. The ideology of biofuel production
sounds
wholesome superficially, a kind of green, health food store way of
producing
energy. The problem is that the entire biofuel scheme is based on
lies and
political selfishness, without any legitimate science based
ecological
justification.
1) Biofuel production starves the poor and reduces our standard of
living
by dramatically increasing the cost of food, which we all need just
to
survive. Of course the homeless, the elderly, the disabled, and
those
living on Social Security and other fixed incomes are the hardest hit.
2) Biofuel production increases our Federal budget deficit because
it
demands large subsidies to exist. Without massive Federal subsidies
and
political mandates, there would be no significant free market demand
for
biofuels at all. Biofuel schemes are energy socialism gone wrong.
3) Biofuel production harms the environment by needlessly eroding
topsoil
and encouraging the destruction of forests, which are desperately
needed as
a sponge to soak up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Carbon
dioxide (C02) is the major greenhouse gas that causes global warming.
Do we
really want to cut down forests all over the world, from Indonesia to
Pennsylvania, just to have more land to grow corn, soybeans, palm
oil,
sugarcane, and other crops to burn as fuel in our SUVs? Biofuel
schemes
speed up global warming because the entire biofuel production process,
from
beginning to end, releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere while destroying native forests which naturally clean and
rejuvenate the air we breathe.
Biofuel production will aggravate water shortages world wide
because
water is diverted to grow biofuel crops and thus taken away from our
ever
shrinking supplies of safe drinking water. Biofuel use also demands
a
dramatic increase in the production of fertilizers made from natural
gas,
coal and mined minerals in a messy industrial process which unleashes
even
more greenhouse gases. Biofuels are a losing proposition on every
level,
except for the big profits giant agricultural corporations will make
producing them.
4) Biofuels schemes are a scientific hoax and an economic fraud
because
they take more energy to produce than they yield in the form of the
biofuel
itself. We have to use large amounts of coal and oil just to produce
biofuels. The economic numbers for biofuel production do not add up
any way
you look at them, and at the recent United Nations conference on
strategic
environmental issues held in Bali, Indonesia, several studies were
presented
detailing the dangers of making automobile fuels from crops.
Respected
scientists warned that biofuel production is destructive to the
environment
and will not give us the clean "renewable energy" its advocates
claim. Just
a few days after the Bali conference ended, America's political
leaders
enacted a new law mandating massive increases in biofuel production,
the
science and the facts be damned.
5) The biofuel hoax in the United States is fueled to a large degree
by
domestic American politics and corporate greed. Both the Republican
and
Democratic political parties want to get the "farm vote" in
politically
strategic farming states like Iowa, Ohio, and Nebraska. Our
politicians
have put political gain ahead of the world's starving poor, the
elderly on
fixed incomes, and the welfare of the American middle class. Rich
politicians can afford to pay the dramatically higher food bills that
biofuel production creates, and they have decided to throw science to
the
wind and charge blindly into what will inevitably be branded as one of
the
most destructive political fiascoes of the 21st century.
6) Making cellulosic ethanol from lignocellulose, a structural
material
that comprises much of the mass of plants, is better than making
ethanol
from corn, but it still has most of the drawbacks listed for ethanol
made
from food crops. Growing lignocellulose yielding grasses on land we
currently use to graze cattle will increase the price of beef and
milk. We
will still have to use fertilizers made from natural gas and coal to
make
inedible crops grow, and the entire process will erode topsoil and
increase
the price of food. If we grow switchgrass for biofuel on "marginal"
prairie
land, we will soon turn that marginal land into a desert and a dust
bowl,
which it may turn into anyway due to global warming, which biofuel use
will
not stop.
Computer models for the progression of global warming show the
America
Midwest and Southwest getting hotter and dryer, with much of our farm
and
grazing land turning into desert. We know that biofuel use will do
nothing
to stop this progression, so why are we pinning so much hope on an
energy
and environmental battle plan that any fool can see will blow up in
our face
over time? We won't be able to produce enough biofuels to run our
cars, or
enough food to fill our bellies! The biofuel scheme is another
example of a
basic lack of intelligence of our politicians, many of whom also voted
for
the disastrous Iraq war despite the warnings of more thoughtful
advisers.
If you cannot plan ahead and anticipate future trends, then you will
lead
this nation into one disaster after another, which is exactly what is
occurring in Washington DC at this very moment. Our Congress has
become a
chorus of stupidity, and our politicians are leading us to national
suicide,
not to the nirvana of energy independence.
Even the very process of making cellulosic ethanol from
switchgrass and
other plants has not been proven to be economically viable, and the
Bush
energy bill assumes new scientific breakthroughs that have not yet
occurred.
Many of the plants being proposed as lignocellulose yielding crops are
weeds
which will have a destructive impact on wildlife and biodiversity
around the
world. In practical terms, there is not enough usable land area to
grow a
sufficient quantity of biofuel plants to meet the world's energy
demands.
The prospect of growing algae to make biodiesel has more
positive
potential than making ethanol from switchgrass, but open algae sewage
ponds
are difficult to manage due to contamination from invasive algae and
bacteria, and the inherent problem of finding an algae that will
survive
wide swings in temperature and pH. If a system can be developed that
produces biodiesel from algae that requires only a small amount of
land and
that produces much more energy than it takes to manufacture, then
algae
based biodiesel might be a positive venture. To date there has been
no
proof that such a system is viable or truly carbon neutral. If you
have to
run algae farms off the waste of coal fired power plants, as has been
proposed, then you have a band-aid solution that will not stop global
warming in its tracks, which is what we need to do if we want our
children
and grandchildren to survive on this planet.
Dramatic increases in food prices created by biofuel production
will
cause political instability around the globe, because food products
are sold
in a world wide marketplace just like oil. There have already been
mass
public protests in Mexico over the high price of corn, which makes
tortillas
and other basic Mexican foods. Imagine the political instability in
Mexico,
Central and South America, Africa, India, and Pakistan that
skyrocketing
food prices and mass starvation will cause. Will a starving Pakistan,
armed
with nuclear weapons, make the world a safer place? If American
politicians
lead us down a path to global use of biofuels, we will be leading the
world
into a historic disaster that can easily kill more people due to
starvation
than have been killed in the Iraq war by bullets and bombs.
If we truly wish to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and not just
waste
time on destructive political scams, then we will have to create an
infrastructure based on nuclear energy, improved battery technology,
and
hydrogen fuel, not on ethanol and biofuels. Hydrogen releases water
vapor
when burned and is the cleanest burning fuel known to man. Hydrogen
can be
used in both internal combustion engines and in fuel cells. Hydrogen
fuel
can be made through the electrolysis of water via electricity
generated from
zero emissions nuclear power plants, which currently produce about
19.4% of
our nation's electricity. We need to build large numbers of nuclear
power
plants now using mass production techniques if we want to end global
warming
rather than just continue talking about the subject endlessly with no
positive effect.
Nuclear power plants do not contribute to global warming because
they
release no greenhouse gases at all. You do not need much land to
build a
nuclear power plant, and you do not need to make fertilizer to make
nuclear
energy grow. Nuclear power plants are not vulnerable to attack by
insects,
viruses, bacteria, or fungi as are biofuel crops. We need to get off
the
organic carbon cycle for energy production and use inorganic nuclear
power
to produce the highly concentrated energy supply that solar and wind
power
can never hope to provide. Even by the most optimistic estimates,
solar and
wind power can only hope to satisfy perhaps 20% of our future energy
needs.
Solar and wind power tap into natural energy sources that are far too
diffuse to be collected on a large enough scale to power an advanced,
industrialized nation. Solar and wind power currently produce only
about
2.4% of our nation's electricity, so even an increase to 20% would be
a
major undertaking.
One of the added benefits of nuclear power is that we already own
huge
amounts of nuclear fuel in the form of nuclear weapons materials,
which can
be converted into fuel rods for civilian power production. The
United
States Government has hundreds of years worth of nuclear fuel in
storage
thanks to the cold war nuclear arms race of the 1950s and 1960s. We
can
turn our swords into plowshares while paying only the modest costs of
converting high level weapons grade nuclear materials into low level
nuclear
fuel rods suitable for civilian power production. Unlike oil, we do
not
have to import nuclear fuel from foreign countries or fight endless
foreign
wars to protect our supplies.
Nuclear fuel rods can be reprocessed over and over again because
only a
tiny portion of the nuclear material is actually used up during each
fuel
cycle. When you reprocess fuel rods there is very little high level
nuclear
waste that needs to be stored. The nuclear "waste" is simply reused
as
nuclear fuel, and that is part of the reason why France's nuclear
power
program has been so successful. France relies heavily on nuclear
power
plants and nuclear fuel reprocessing, and thus France has the cleanest
air
and lowest electricity rates in Europe.
The fears many Americans have about civilian nuclear power plants
are
largely unfounded. Our latest nuclear reactor designs are carefully
engineered with many layers of redundant safety and security features
built-in. One single disaster that occurred in 1986 at an obsolete
Ukrainian reactor is no reason to be eternally afraid of all civilian
nuclear power plants across the board. The old Chernobyl reactor used
a
dangerous design that has never been used in the West, and which did
not
even have a containment vessel. The infamous Chernobyl accident was
caused
by Soviet engineers conducting wildly irresponsible experiments that
were
totally unrelated to normal civilian power production, and which would
never
be allowed in the USA. The Chernobyl nuclear accident killed a total
of 56
people, a great tragedy, but not a nation killing disaster. Far
fewer
people died at Chernobyl than on Japan Airlines Flight 123 in 1985,
when a
lone 747 jetliner crashed and killed all 520 passengers. Americans
suffer
over 40,000 deaths due to automobile accidents every year, but there
is no
great human cry to ban automobiles.
Nuclear power plants in America have an excellent record for
safety and
for clean, pollution free operation. By contrast, the over 600 coal
burning
power plants in the United States which produce approximately 49% of
our
nation's electricity emit sulfur dioxide (SO2) and oxides of nitrogen
(NOx)
which combine with moisture in the atmosphere to create destructive
acid
rain. Coal burning power plants also release microscopic particulate
matter
which clog the lungs and which are attributed to causing
approximately
24,000 unnatural premature deaths in America every year, which is 428
times
the Chernobyl death toll.
Coal fired power plants in the USA release approximately 200,000
pounds
of toxic mercury each year, and nearly 10% of global carbon dioxide
emissions, which represents an enormous river of skyward bound
greenhouse
gas. On top of all of that, coal burning power plants release
radioactive
materials into the atmosphere due to the natural thorium and uranium
content
of coal. A single 1,000 megawatt coal-burning power plant can release
as
much as 12.8 tons of radioactive thorium every year, and 5.2 tons of
uranium
each year. The uranium figure includes 74 pounds of uranium-235,
which is
the highly fissionable form of uranium that was used to construct the
"Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Why is there so little fear in the United States of coal burning
power
plants, but so much hysterical fear of much safer and healthier
nuclear
power? The answer is that nuclear power has been unfairly demonized
by a
Hollywood entertainment industry trying to make a quick buck (The
China
Syndrome, The Simpsons, etc.), and by scientifically undereducated
politicians and environmental activists. The fact is there has never
been a
single human death attributable to the daily activity of nuclear
power
plants in the USA, and American nuclear power plants produce
electricity at
an average cost of less than two cents per kilowatt-hour (2004
figure),
which is comparable with coal and hydroelectric power. Newer, more
efficient power plant designs and the mass production of major
structural
and control components can bring the cost down even further.
Nuclear power is the only technology that can produce an
extremely high
volume of energy using only a tiny amount of land and at reasonable
cost,
all without emitting any greenhouse gases. That is why the father of
Gaia
theory, British atmospheric scientist James Lovelock, stated that
nuclear
power is the only way to have a large human population on planet
earth
without causing global warming and destroying the environment. Please
read
James Lovelock's public statement on nuclear energy, Nuclear power is
the
only green solution.
We must remember that biofuels are made from food or from
inedible
crops which displace current levels of food production. With a world
wide
human population of over 6.6 billion people and growing, we cannot
afford to
feed our families and at the same time use precious farm and grazing
land to
produce food products and/or lignocellulose yielding crops to burn in
our
automobile engines. Food belongs in the stomachs of hungry men,
women, and
children, not in the gas tanks of our Fords, Hondas, and Mercedes
Benz
automobiles.
If you do not want food prices to double, triple, or even
quadruple in
the next ten years, then write your Congressman, Senator, Governor,
and
President and tell them that you do not want to waste food production
resources on biofuels. Furthermore, state the obvious fact that food
prices
are already too high and that you want all biofuel mandates repealed
and all
biofuel manufacturing subsidies ended. If this is done you will soon
see
food prices declining instead of rising, your local food banks will
become
full again, and the United Nations and other charitable organizations
will
be able to meet their moral obligations to help feed the world's
starving
masses. Biofuel production for use in automobiles represents a
needless man
made disaster, not a blessing, and biofuels are effectively
agricultural
products no matter how you make them. We should not waste or displace
food
production capacity if we wish to feed a hungry world.
Christopher Calder
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
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Two new paragraphs have been added to "The biofuel hoax is causing a
world food crisis!", explaining how a nuclear based, hydrogen fuel
economy will make the USA both richer and safer. The more you
carefully consider nuclear-hydrogen technology, the more positive
benefits you will find. The more you consider biofuel production, the
more devastating the prospects become. It is a choice between sanity
and insanity, and our politicians have unfortunately chosen the
politically expedient, shortsighted insane course of action.
at: http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
"The economic benefits of a nuclear based, hydrogen fueled
economy are spectacular. The United States balance of trade deficit
and Federal budget deficit will be greatly reduced by a nuclear
powered economy. All of the nuclear reactors will be built and run by
Americans in America, who will make high wages and pay taxes to
Federal, state, and local governments, and spend their income at local
American stores. As the USA currently imports 60% of its oil supply,
all of the dollars we now ship off to Canada (18%), Mexico (15%),
Saudi Arabia (12%), Nigeria (12%), Venezuela (10%), and Angola (6%)
will stay right here in the USA. In the year 2007, the USA is
estimated to have imported a total of about 3.8 billion barrels of
crude oil, in addition to a tremendous amount of natural gas and other
hydrocarbon products which can largely be replaced by nuclear power.
At $93. a barrel (12/24/07 price), 3.8 billion barrels of crude oil is
worth over 353. billion dollars. The current Iraq war, which was
fought both for the State of Israel and for oil, will cost United
States taxpayers over 2,000. billion dollars (2 trillion dollars) by
the time all of the long term war costs are paid. Obviously, a
nuclear based hydrogen economy will make the United States richer in
addition to saving us from desertification of our heartland, coastal
flooding, increased storm damage, and starvation caused by the deadly
combination of global warming and the biofuel hoax.
Hydrogen fuel produced from nuclear generation will be expensive
at first, but the price will decline over time as the infrastructure
grows and economies of scale lower production costs. Hydrogen fuel
manufacture and distribution techniques will become more efficient,
and electric car battery technology will also improve, allowing
Americans to drive our highways without guilt that they are burning up
precious natural resources or polluting the environment. Cars will
pass by leaving behind only a small amount of water vapor if hydrogen
powered, or just a near silent wind if electric battery powered.
Hybrid vehicles that run on both batteries and hydrogen fuel will be
common. The nuclear based hydrogen economy is a long term investment
in America's future that will pay more benefits every year as opposed
to the biofuel hoax, which will lead to destruction of our
environment, our economy, and our nation."
Merry Christmas, Christopher Calder
http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html
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