[Bioconversion] Re: Biofuels production discussion list?

Jeff Davis jeff0124 at velocity.net
Tue Apr 25 02:36:49 EDT 2006


Dear List,

Lewis L Smith wrote:
>    On one hand, AJH's definition of "biomass" is short and snappy. On the 
>other hand, with particular reference to "food vs fuel" controversies, I 
>suspect that it would further antagonize the agricultural traditionalists and 
some 
>of the others who are not already "true believers". Many of these are turned 
>off by "biomass", even when it is given a more prosaic definition.

Our prime mover friends have the Atkinson cycle, diesel cycle, Stirling cycle, 
etc.

We have biomass. But lets back up a bit and get the bigger picture. A few more 
steps, few more, ahhh two more. Yes, that's it. We have the "Solar Cycle".

Solar Cycle = biomass

IMHO

-- 
Jeff Davis
Somewhere 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA
http://www.velocity.net/~jeff0124


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