(May 5, 2009, AutoBlogGreen)
The nail in the coffin of corn-based ethanol might be made of water. The magazine Environmental Science & Technology has published an article that pegs the amount of water needed to make enough corn ethanol to move a vehicle one mile at 50 gallons. That’s pretty high.
ES&T calculated the amount of water [...]
(Jan. 16, 2009, Bloomberg)
Corn crops in the Argentine province of Entre Rios are still suffering a “severe water deficit” even after some areas of the country received rain, the government said.
The drought remains “very serious” in parts of Entre Rios, while areas of the Santa Fe, La Pampa and Cordoba provinces are also facing [...]
(Dec. 22, 2008, Huffington Post)
I’m reminded of the farmer who was asked whether he believed in baptism. He replied, “Of course. I’ve seen it done.”
Well, as the ethanol boom has continued, I’ve seen new corn fields in Arizona and California where farmers water the fields with groundwater. Foolishness, oft repeated, does not become wisdom. Repeated [...]
