02-08-2006, 08:31 AM
To Kandrathe:
the making of bioethanol, or biodiesel is a very good thing to do. OK you don't create energy from nothing, but a lot more than you would if you let those plants rot on the ground. That and you stop the incredible amount of methane rotting plants release.
Methane can be used, and better be burned than released in the atmosphere because it is a lot stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 is.
I guess that what you end up with is a mineral rich pulp which might be used as fertilizer. Europe is now actually starting to get more and more interested in biofuels. But as said before in this thread, if you purposely plant things like sugarbeets for getting fuel, it will cost you a lot of space. And remving dead material from forrest to convert into biodiesel will seriously alter the biome there..so also not an option.
the making of bioethanol, or biodiesel is a very good thing to do. OK you don't create energy from nothing, but a lot more than you would if you let those plants rot on the ground. That and you stop the incredible amount of methane rotting plants release.
Methane can be used, and better be burned than released in the atmosphere because it is a lot stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 is.
I guess that what you end up with is a mineral rich pulp which might be used as fertilizer. Europe is now actually starting to get more and more interested in biofuels. But as said before in this thread, if you purposely plant things like sugarbeets for getting fuel, it will cost you a lot of space. And remving dead material from forrest to convert into biodiesel will seriously alter the biome there..so also not an option.