You have to understand where David has been and where he is trying to go. All his life he has been against the Goliath and he literally being "David".
Your analysis is intelligent but you are missing a component about the fact that throughout history there are ones that have the guns and they are the ones that have......anything they want. Africa is a problem which I will note in a moment.
What I have tried to do here is peak interest about the subject because I was one of the parroting idiots mind washed morons. Sound bites ruled my thoughts on the subject. Then I saw an interesting program about a local farmer who was growing organic. you have to remember that I live in a rural county where they do 2 or 3 crops a year. Corn, soybeans, winter wheat. Tobacco has all but gone from the county. So anyway this organic farmer was getting incredible yields from his green houses using nothing but earthworms. Incredible little creatures these worms are. Anyway the camera was following this man around his green houses and then they went out side and it was like a scene out of Jack and the bean stalk. Tomato plants 12' high. everything they looked at was over the top. then I remembered a neighbor I had back on Long Island. He had a cage of rabbits and they used the rabbit droppings to grow incredible foods in his backyard. Consider the backyard was no bigger than 30 by 60'. No chemicals, no GMO foods, No terminator seeds, No pesticides. No sterile soils ! And the food tasted out of this world !
So at the end of the interview with the man he mentioned how much this would feed and still have enough to make fuel to run everyones vehicles for a month ! This was just a "little greenhouse" and small farm. We are not talking dozens of acres.
So I started researching fuel from food and stumbled across knowledge publications. Blume is the authority on the subject and while you may not agree with some of his political takes on things, you would have to read the preface and the first chapter to understand the big picture. All in all I think he did a pretty good job tempering his personality with what he went through.
Ok so here is the
100 dollar answer to the folks that found my post so offensive, and those others that they had to move MY POST but left Scotts ethanol post intact in general. . I think my civil rights have been violated but at this moment I do not care. I know there is a rogue tree looking for a dirt bike rider at this very moment........
Ok so here is the answer.
Say corn does actually cost 4 or 5 bucks a bushel ? Ok we agree that farmers are now sticking it up everyones rear end and they are making killing on this corn bushel. Just go along with me for a moment, the issue is more complicated that that in reality. You the ethanol producer pay that outrageous sum and then burn fossil fuel, coal or your neighbors Mercedes to pay for the heat to cook off the mash to distill the alcohol. ? Well you can boo hoo hoo all you want, because doing that and only looking at that economic model is a losing game this is why myths get started.
Lets forget about the fact that the oil co's used numbers to push that myth from the Jack Daniels whiskey plant for a moment. Whiskey plants and like distillery do not care about reclaiming heat or being efficient they are making a killing on the booze. SO their studies are comparing apples to oranges. Not fair, at all.
Now the closed loop model in a nutshell. (how we should be doing it) For starters you are not using expensive seeds and having to use petrol based fertilizers, round up and taking a bath with 5 dollar a bushel corn, you are going back to organic farming. PERMACULTURE. Its a big word that requires study to understand but lets just for a moment say you are paying 5 bucks a bushel for the corn instead of a dollar, YOU COULD USE NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION SUGAR AT 19CENT A LB FROM MEXICOand really make a killing BUT FOR now you are retarded and want to use corn. [.because you want to feed the world high quality protein]. Now you make the mash, cook it off and now you have some excellent mash to feed your livestock, DDGS, (Dried Distillers grains). lets say cows. beef cows. not only will your cows grow at incredible rates, your time to fatten them up is much reduced. Old farmers that were cooking way back when got caught because their livestock were the best in show they were fat and strong and healthy. !!! Nothing grows livestock like DDGS.
Now you offset the cost of the 5 dollar corn by selling this supercharged animal feed for half for what you bought the corn for at 5 bucks. You have saved joe schmuck cattle farmer from 5 $ straight corn feed and now have provided him with an incredible feed !!!! .
Now you have fuel, and food for the price of fuel. Now I am not done yet stay with me boys and girls.......
You have all this livestock and all this poop, or manure to dispose of. you have all the droppings washed to a methane digester and you use the methane to fire the burners to cook your mash that makes the alcohol that provides the grains to the animals which in turn keep supplying you with endless poop which cook your mash.
DOES THIS ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS HOW WE WILL FEED THE WORLD AND HAVE FUEL FOR EVERYONE ???
Good by foreign oil ! Good by 1 trillion military budget, killing brown people overseas for energy resources. (well almost) Now I am not a tree hugger or algore lover ANY KID with a 3rd grade education can figure out bologna from fact in a short trip to the library....
It just is an elegant solution from a technical stand point.
Now all of you who thought I was full of it can paypal my 100 bucks per person to my email address. I think I have proved the POINT !
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oh, and Africa. I have a customer whose son was a teacher, he majored in agriculture and went over to Africa to help feed and teach farmers over there how to grow and manage crops. He lived there less than a month where one day a rival tribe came with guns, burst into his class room and shot him in the head killing him. The reason was that he was working with a rival tribe, Now they all starve to death. and you can almost read the coverage in the alternative media how white farmers are being murdered over there because the "elected" leaders know they can do it better so now even more famine. True story.
Jonathan