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corn nuclear dreams nuclear dreams it s nu clear not un clear archive for the corn category corn on the sob february 27 2008 there s an interesting debate in the december issue of chemical and engineering news which pits two professors and well known energy experts david pimentel of cornell and bruce dale of msu on opposite sides of the biofuel debate specifically the ethanol from corn debate the debate is quite instructive and you can read about it yourself access should be free i have been an opponent of ethanol from corn ever since i first heard one of david pimentel s viewpoints the main issue concerns the energy balance of corn production it turns out that by many estimates more energy from fossil fuels in terms of corn fertilizer transportation etc is put into producing ethanol from corn than is obtained from using the ethanol pimentel believes that this balance is negative you put in much more energy than what you get dale makes some arguments which i find strange arguing that one must consider the exact character of the fossil fuel sources that are being used gas coal or oil otherwise one is comparing apples to oranges as far as i am concerned all are fossil fuels so it s not going to matter which one is used all are going to be expensive in the future in one way or the other ethanol from grass provides a better alternative to that from corn but even there pimentel contends that that sheer volume of carbon source that one gets from grass is less than that from corn in any kind of energy source evaluation it is always important to consider the ancillary sources involved that may contribute unfavorably for example in considering solar and wind power one must consider the cost of materials for construction the land used and the fate of those materials in the future to name a few significant factors many americans don t realise that diverting corn away from food production can have an immense impact on the american way of life michael pollan s truly excellent the omnivore s dilemma makes it clear how much dependent americans are on corn which pervades almost everything they buy in the supermarket we should shudder to think of an american corn famine akin to the irish potato one if corn is diverted to produce ethanol americans will wake up to an unpleasant shock where almost everything they buy for their daily consumption has become expensive more than 60 of all corn goes not in human food products directly but into animal feed cattle hens and even salmon are fed corn these days maybe that s why grandmothers don t like meat that much anymore cheap corn fed beef is a luxury americans may not enjoy if corn supply starts getting diverted into producing ethanol and even with much corn being used for fuel as pimentel demonstrates it won t fulfill more than a small amount of this energy hungry nation s energy needs in any case i have always thought that the reason ethanol from corn has received so much attention is because of the gratuitous lobbying in washington from corn companies and the resulting shameless pandering that bush and other officials have demonstrated in terms of the obscene subsidies that corn gets seriously is the united states truly a free market economy with such ridiculous subsidies offered to corn and oil clearly there has to be a better solution as with so many other things ethanol and corn seem to have been oversold by george w bush along with the accompanying corny lines posted in corn energy ethanol susidies leave a comment pages blog home about categories categories 109 east palace a q khan abm acheson lilienthal report arms race asat bernard cohen climate change cold war conservatives corn energy environmentalists ethanol france freeman dyson george koval gorbachev gwyneth cravens hydrogen hydrogen bomb hyrogen india indo us nuclear deal iran isotopes john mccain leo szilard liberals los alamos media missile defense nuclear fission nuclear paranoia nuclear terrorism nuclear weapons nunn obama 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