I opened C Span today and came upon a speech given by a Maryland Congressman on Peak Oil and renewable energy sources in the Hall of Congress. Crux of the speech was that we are near peak oil which will happen between 2016 and 2027 depending upon fresh new large discoveries. As for renewable energy resources his estimate was that if the whole US corn production is used for ethanol production it will cover 2.5% of US energy requirements, and if the whole of soybean production in the US was used for diesel production it will cover 6% of US needs.

In short the spin doctors are again deluding the world. Renewable resources are not going to supply more than a small part of energy needs of the world. His solution was to cut energy use as the most efficient way to reduce consumption.

Imran


On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:50 AM, viren wrote:

 

FYI
 
 
http://www.terrapass.com/blog/posts/2006/06/butanol-next-climatefriendly-biofuel.html
 
http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/id24.html
 
 
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1401.cfm
 
http://www.cei.org/pdf/5774.pdf
 
 
http://www.cei.org/gencon/025,05774.cfm
 
 
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2503
 
 
would appreciate comments , will this make the recent  agressive move to promote jatropha in India redundant , who will pay the price for this
 
viren