[Gasification] biogas vehicle

[Bob Stuart]

On 13-Apr-08, at 12:50 AM, Mark Ludlow wrote:

> I'm on Harmon's "kill list" so I don't expect his response, but I  
> doubt his
> numbers. Is there a grand conspiracy to promote corn as an ethanol
> feedstock? What fraction of cropland is suitable for cattail  
> production?
> Buffalo gourd? Are farmers (agro-industrialists) all stupid? Why  
> not hemp?
> No one I am aware of is deliberately doing the wrong thing. If  
> there are
> miracle gains in efficiency to be had, the system will discover  
> them. Such
> is the nature of a market economy.

Farmers usually plant according to previous success.  Given a  
thousand years to experiment, the market might come up with sacks of  
cattail seed and a  fleet of special machines to deal with it, but we  
don't have a hundred years to save the economy and environment.

Best,
Bob Stuart