[Gasification] Thanksgiving

[Benjamin Domingo Bof]

Harmon, Bob and others friends.
  Sugar cane yield 14 to one for ethanol production, but 17 to one in meat production.
  What happens if prices of meals grows according to Chicago increases?
  Can resist energy factorys using very expensive products to make nergy?
  Regards; Benjamin

Harmon Seaver <hseaver at gmail.com> escribió:
  On Nov 22, 2007 1:35 PM, Bob Stuart wrote:
>
> On 22-Nov-07, at 1:01 PM, Tom Miles wrote:
>
> > Bob,
> >
> > Nice one.
> >
> > Show us the math. How much grain do vegetarians eat? What conversion
> > efficiencies are you using in lb grain/lb meat for turkey and beef
> > and for
> > conversion to ethanol? What if you gasify the grain?
> >
> > Thanks for giving
>
> Sorry, I don't have the trade-off for gasification handy, nor the
> range on the taxi, but the figures on feeding are based on protein
> content, and are in all the classic references with minor
> variations. Actually, I think it comes to more like one turkey eater
> to five vegetarians - sorry. I first saw them in Diet for a Small
> Planet, by Francis Moore Lappe. There are, of course, a small
> number of birds available that fed on things no human would eat.

As will turkeys and chickens if you raise them naturally, giving
them free range on pasture. Same for beef and hogs. Feeding any of
them entirely (or even mostly) on grain is quite unhealthy, both for
the animal and the eater. Unless, of course, you first make ethanol
with the grain, then feed them the spent mash, that's much more
healthy, and they gain more weight, and gain it faster, but still
should be mostly on pasture. And that's healthier for the planet as
well -- permanent or even semi-permanent -- pastures gets rid of most
of the plowing, planting, soil erosion, herbicides, etc. Permaculture
rules! Even for biofuels -- cattails for ethanol or digesters or even
gasifiers, plant once, harvest forever.

-- 
Harmon Seaver

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