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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Earl who wrote (483)	4/30/2003 9:25:40 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

OT: ETHANOL AND CROP LANDS Don, The problem with producing ethanol, as was pointed out by Peter Huber in "Hard Green", and by others is that the trade-off is the requirement to put vast tracts of land into industrial production. So the trade-off is pristine countrysides, recreational playgrounds and wildlife vs. industrial cropland. I think planting wind generation station in suitable areas, like the Great Plains, is clearly a preferable solution. Particularly now that wind power technologies are maturing and becoming economically competitive with most utility generation schemes. The brilliant solution is using a variable resource like the wind to generate electricity when the wind blows, utilizing this power to create hydrogen fuel rather than storing the power in batteries as electricity, and creating a "national security" transportation fuel that reduces our dependence on the vicious and treacherous politics of the petroleum rich Middle East. At least it is a good theory, eh? :) -Ray