tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post7963211975950013274..comments2023-09-30T08:05:10.721-04:00Comments on And Yet It Moves: Alternative Energy Hype #3: BioFuelsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13832931497605041428noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post-62773773058434833832008-12-13T19:27:00.000-05:002008-12-13T19:27:00.000-05:00I am not too crazy about ethanol but I think Bio-d...I am not too crazy about ethanol but I think Bio-diesel looks pretty interesting, specially if we could use all that old cooking oil of restaurants. Also you can produce oil from tree-nuts and bushes instead of crop that you have to plant every year and that would be more ecological. The problem is that these are hard to harvest and the labor and processing costs are probably prohibitive. In the end it is hard to economically beat just drilling a hole and pumping oil out of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post-56531093847930276692008-10-05T22:04:00.000-04:002008-10-05T22:04:00.000-04:00That's pretty funny...guess it's just really hard ...That's pretty funny...guess it's just really hard to be "green." Probably the greenest source of energy we have available now is nuclear; more on that later.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13832931497605041428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8281898744624594172.post-88410406481672657722008-10-05T21:09:00.000-04:002008-10-05T21:09:00.000-04:00Interesting... seems that what is labeled "green" ...Interesting... seems that what is labeled "green" often isn't. I read a story some years ago that NYC stopped sending out recycling trucks because they caused more pollution/used more gas that was warranted by the recycling.Brad Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800309833079635465noreply@blogger.com