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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (4404)	2/18/2006 5:22:04 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218620

Sounds pretty reasonable to me :O) Al

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (4404)	2/19/2006 12:18:01 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218620

sunlight and heat are free and abundant. Sounds like Africa! Brazil is not going around evangelizing everyone on how to produce ethanol. Obviously, Brazil doesn't want competition. But look to Africa where the sun blazes too. They need to import cooking oil, rice and wheat. They can plant sugar cane, produce and export ethanol and import food that grows better in temperate USA/Canada or rice that grows better in other places.

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (4404)	2/19/2006 1:43:29 AM
From: Crabbe	Respond to of 218620

"I think nobody knows whether ethanol will or will not replace gasoline in a major way all over the temperate world(as opposed to tropical Brazil, where as I keep saying, sunlight and heat are free and abundant)." The sunlight that falls on Salem, Oregon is approximately 71% as intense as falls on the equator on the first day of spring or the first day of fall. The intensity of the sunlight is slightly stronger on the first day of summer in Salem, OR, than that falling on the equator. Relative angles for the sun at high noon are 22 degrees for Salem, and 23 degrees for the equator, add to this the fact that the sun shines little more than 12 hours per day as you approach the equator. while sunlight at the latitude of Salem, OR (45 degrees) the sun shines for close to 15.2 hours on the first day of summer. The major difference is the length of the growing season, for Salem Oregon about 110 days for the equator year round. Even so some crops like Alfalfa can be harvested 2 and even 3 times in a season near Salem. Extend that North to Anchorage Alaska, Grow Cabbage for biomass, 1 plant every six feet on a grid, 50 pounds per each and you can get 30 tons per acre of wet biomass. Zucchini squash could also be grown in Anchorage with yields nearly one hundred tons per acre. On an eight foot grid 15 twenty pound squash per plant. Add some genetic engineering and who knows what could be accomplished. Heat is sometimes not important, sometimes length of sunlight per day is more important. The latitude seems to have little effect below the arctic circle, the crop grown is more important. r