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Ethanol Setback

Everything’s not all rosy for ethanol.  First there are concerns about the amount of petro-chemicals it takes to grow the corn in the first place, then there’s the concern about using the food supply as […]
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Blood sucking insects

Chiggers and Ticks and Lice, Oh My…Seems like I hear more and more about little blood sucking insects being on the rise, like Chiggers, and Ticks, and Lice, and Bedbugs.Are we making the planet uninhabitable […]
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Soylent green is biodiesel!

An article in Red Herring’s 9-Apr-2007 issue, Playing with Pond Scum says that algae could be a better source of biodiesel than any other plant, if only they can figure out how to grow it […]
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Is ethanol the right thing?

Ethanol production, as Tad Patzek of UC Berkeley’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering wrote in a report this year, is based on “the massive transfer of money from the collective pocket of the U.S. […]
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It ain’t easy bein’ GREthanolEN

Since producing most domestic ethanol requires large amounts of fossil fuel, and regular gasoline provides about 30 percent more mileage per gallon than E85, it’s arguably preferable from a conservation standpoint to drive a stand […]