Follow the Love » biofuel http://angelaharms.com the personal blog of Angela Harms Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:46:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Bio-fuel and Permaculture?! http://angelaharms.com/2007/bio-fuel-and-permaculture/ http://angelaharms.com/2007/bio-fuel-and-permaculture/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:57:45 +0000 Angela http://blog.angelaharms.com/?p=191 I’ve been pretty convinced that switching to ethanol, running cars on corn, is a bad idea. It has looked like a big corporate monoculture nightmare. But I just found some hope. I just discovered David Blume, whose work on biofuels comes from a permaculture perspective.

Alcoholcanbeagas.com offers answers to my objections. If this guy is right…

* There is enough land to feed us and grow fuel-plants.
* Cars can be fueled on a small scale, without supporting giant oil companies.
* Growing our own fuel can help heal the earth.

Given the massive potential for polyculture yields, monoculture-study dismissals of ethanol production seem silly when viewed from economic, energetic, or ecological perspectives.

Wow. What if it’s true? :)

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I just filled my gas tank with a biofuel blend. And I was thinking about how there are serious problems with corn as a fuel. And I told myself, “yeah, but it’s clearly better than oil and blood, which is what the other 90% of the fuel is made of.”

Oh my god.

No wonder antidepressants are so popular.

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