Biodiesel Focus of GM, DOE Study
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Posted by John Davis – March 31st, 2010
General Motors has announced a five-year partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy to study using jatropha plants for biodiesel.
UPI reports that the test sites in India will look at whether jatropha can produce enough oil for the green fuel:
Farms with more than 200 acres of the drought-resistant, non-edible plant will host life-cycle studies near GM plants in India.
“In the long term, if jatropha is commercially viable, it will reduce dependence on petroleum as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote economic growth,” said Mike Robinson, GM vice president of environment, energy and safety policy.
GM officials say the non-edible plant will also help defuse the food-versus-fuel argument.
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John Q. Galt
So, growing a non-edible plant for biofuel solves the food-vs-fuel issue? Does anybody see the problem with this logic?
“Yeah, sure it uses just as many resources* as a food plant, but you can’t eat it so it doesn’t count. Plus it goes to eleven.”
Biofuel advocates really drop the ball when they allow the leftist hippies to frame the debate. Food-vs-Fuel is 100% misinformation spread by stupid and evil people.
*Time, labor, land etc. Jatropha is a integrated system niche plant not a prime mover. A hedgerow plant. RTFM: http://www.jatropha.de/
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