Daniel wrote: <snip>
>Biodiesel does not have the best reputation cause >of the problems of monocultures. You might as well say that most food doesn't have the best reputation, for the same reason. That's not the only way to grow food, not even the best way, in fact it's the worst way. - As Europe (and elsewhere) is now discovering, with its policy to adopt more sustainable agricultural methods. The same goes for biodiesel. No need for monocropping or industrialized production systems with high fossil-fuel inputs and high levels of externalizations. In fact it makes better sense on an integrated, mixed sustainable farm, which can produce a lot of biofuel from waste products without any dedicated land use. >But it takes 0,55 >% of the fuel market in Germany. >So these are some points what is in the discussion >in Germany. But Germany is not the biggest country >although it has the most people in the Europe. A >unique solution can only be found within Europe, >here Ethanol might be leading. A start for that might be found in the current over-production of sugar beet, rather than using inequitable trading arrangements to dump it on 3rd World countries, distorting their markets and rural sectors. And (unlike the US) maybe it will occur to someone to marry the two and replace the methanol in biodiesel with ethanol. Keith >Another thing is the opening of the EU towards the >east, with it big aeras of land and cheap labor. > >So, this is a little input - hastily written. > >Greetings > >Daniel > > >Hakan Falk schrieb: > > Hi Keith and others, > > > > I am now close to publish, > > http://energy.saving.nu/biofuels/biofuelorg.shtml > > I am still insecure about "Ethanol, big or small?" and will probably take > > this as a separate issue all together. Politics and perceptions are very > > important for a business, so I am not sure yet. Please look at it and give > > me your comments, both good and bad. > > > > Hakan Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
