Tuesday, December 06, 2005
The Dangers of Biodiesel
The News Junky can't sleep... Biodiesel is all the rage lately among environmentalists and those talking about reducing our dependence on foreigh oil. However, it does so with adding other risks, including deforestation and not reducing the amount of fossil fuels spent on biodiesel fuel crops. It is important that we consider all of the aspects of biodiesel before we all brown market diesal cars from Canada. As for me, I will keep walking, biking and using public transportation until we've solved this thing. Guess I'll be walking for a long time...
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You forgot WVO (waste vegetable oil). This feedstock (or source) is quite plentiful and will not keep you up at night fretting about the destruction of our planet. A company in Maui Hawaii makes biodiesel SOLELY on waste vegetable oil from Hawaii AND Japan. Its customers are fishing boats operating on diesel engines. Do some more research before you cry foul!
Calm down, Chemo. There are plenty of other posts on here with great news about Biodiesel. I simply said that the Biodiesal question must be more throughly examined before we rush into converting every vehicle to it. READ THE ARTICLE IN THE LINK.
You're right, we can and do make biodiesal from vegetable oil wastes, but is that economically and ecologically feasible for all of our vehicles using waste grease? I think not. So what is happening in some parts of the world? Forests and savannas are being slashed to plant fuel crops, which is a danger for biodiversity and soil conservation. Furthermore, biodiesel or ethanol is not also used in the production of these crops, which means that fossil fuels are. So yeah, I'm calling foul with all of the best intentions. READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE YOU POST COMMENTS.
By the way, thanks for posting an advertisement link to your name. That really gives you some credibility. In case you were wondering, I was being sarcastic.
Here are some of the posts that we've had on here about alternative energy. Some of them show very promising news, other do not.
http://urbaneco.blogspot.com/2005/10/from-notepad-of-cl-green-cities-and.html
http://urbaneco.blogspot.com/2005/10/interesting-adverti-er-i-mean-article.html
http://urbaneco.blogspot.com/2005/10/too-late-for-renewables.html
http://urbaneco.blogspot.com/2005/10/most-recent-developments-in-biofuels.html
http://urbaneco.blogspot.com/2005/09/say-it-three-times-fast.html
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