alt.energy.renewable

My experience has been that the "environmentalists" lie the most and
get the most facts wrong, and lack basic reasoning skills. I am an
"environmentalists" also, but not the loony type and don't think we
are going to run the world on hemp and olive trees. The anti-nuke
post was so absurd and inaccurate it is not worth responding to.

Biofuels are a dead end unless we want to kill off most of the
population and go back to a horse and buggy lifestyles, which is
actually what some environmentalists want.

To quote my page on biofuels-

"Even if the USA dedicated 100% of our corn and soybean production to
biofuels, we would only satisfy 12% of gasoline demand and 6% of
diesel demand. To quote Stuart Staniford, "The biofuel potential of
the entire human food supply is quite a small amount of energy
compared to the global oil supply - somewhere between 15 to 20% on a
volumetric basis, so 10 to 15% on an energy basis." Every year the
human race burns up the equivalent of 400 years worth of planetary
vegetation in the condensed form of fossil fuels. How are we going to
replace all that concentrated energy by growing biofuel crops on our
desperately overpopulated, pure water starved little planet?"

With all the plutonium, uranium, and thorium in the world, we have at
least 5,000 years worth of fuel available and probably much more. We
will have to go nuclear or let global warming do its thing. We really
do not know what will happen to the world if CO2 levels are left to
rise endlessly, but we will find out to hard way.

http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html - biofuel facts

Christopher Calder