America needs therapy

[Eugene Leitl]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Harmon Seaver wrote:

> Not true at all. Biodiesel is being marketed in the US today at
> competitive prices, and obviously, like anything else, economies of
> scale would bring down that price. Ethanol is another one. Brazil run

Biodiesel and bioethanol are horribly inefficient as far as conversion of
solar energy and agricultural area is concerned. Large scale agriculture
is not exactly environmentally neutral. They're extreme niche or gimmick
fuels at best.

Synfuel and synthetic methanol as well as hydrogen via fuel reforming from
fossils and biomass/renewables is another thing entirely, and entirely
worthwhile. Both synthetic methanol and fuel reforming allows slow
migration to fuel cells, without pissing off the fossil fuel people.

> a large portion of it's vehicles on ethanol.

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