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What we are talking about is not biofuels in general, it is Ethanol production from corn, as I understand it. Hakan At 09:38 AM 6/28/2003 -0700, you wrote: > > > >I think Pimentel is not important here, and I did not have him in > mind. To my > >mind what is important is the next tier of researchers who claim that while > >biofuels may contain added energy, the net gain is not large. I don't have > >anyone specific in mind, except the recent Berkeley group's claim along > these > >lines. Actually, in the Berkeley case, I think they even claimed a > Pimentel-like > >loss of net energy. The last time I got into an argument with someone about > >this biofuel issue, they didn't particularly care about Pimentel. They were > >more concerned about the claims that biofuels add only a modest gain at > most. I > >am guessing that those claims are not much more valid than Pimentel's, > >particularly when additional uses of the plants are taken into account, > but I > >haven't looked into it, and don't expect to settle much from my armchair > at this > >time. > >Correction: I should have said, I haven't looked into it _recently_. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
