re: Wind Power Production Drops Despite 6.2GW of Added Capacity

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-First, we grow corn just for fuel consumption
-to grow the corn it requires pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer
-these substances and their components are made in industrial complexes that emit gases and pollute to some extent
-it requires a lot of heavy machinery that uses traditional fuels like diesel that also pollute
-all to make a fuel additive that is grossly inefficient compared to gasoline so we have to burn more of it to get the same power output.

so the net benefit is a wash at best.

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The more you know.....

thx

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Cuz413

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Great summary. A couple of additions.

Ethanol doesn’t come close to competing with petroleum based fuels on a $/Btu basis. It is heavily propped up by subsidies.

Because we are squeezing corn into our fuel tanks instead of it being in the food chain, the prices on everything from tortillas to ribeyes are driven up.

The subsidies now make it attractive for farmers to plant marginal tracts, that would have previously been retired under the CRP program. Since the quality of these tracts are marginal at best, more fertilizer has to be applied (unaccounted for in the carbon intensity voodoo they do) and adding to the hypoxia (dead zone) in the Gulf. And taking CRP land to production has a profound negative impact on a variety of wildlife, particularly waterfowl.

It. Is. All. A. Hoax.