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Well Pete, I guess there is no convincing you then. The facts can obviously not overcome your faith in PO. Too bad.

The facts (including the thermodynamics) prove that:
1. We get enough energy fro ...

As I said, "some of you won't believe any of these facts". Note there is a link to support the 0.2% number. So go ahead, make fun of it. It does not change the facts. Something most of you POers seem ...

I know Pete. You make some comical utterances yourself. Seldom factual. Never factual that does not involve the names Pimentel or Patzek.

Come on, people. I put some facts out there. Haven't seen a ...

No Shannymara, no need to go to zero growth anytime soon.

Let us take a step back and look at the larger picture: "So humans used the equivalent of less than 0.2% of the Sun's energy striking the E ...

According to DOE and USDA, the US has enough forestry and agricultural waste to replace a third of its petroleum use ...Note to fact seekers: no new resources required - most of these wastes are alrea ...

Yeah, converting food-to-fuel is a dumb as rocks. Unfortunately, half our elected leaders are dumb as rocks. The other half are eager to play along and send more money to those obliging Midwest voters ...

There is a world of difference between PRIMARY FUELS and CARRIER FUELS. Primary fuels are the basic starting materials for the energy business. Crude oil, coal and natural gas are examples of PRIMARY ...

If the utter moronitude of farming an extra 15,000 square miles of Sonoran desert isn't patently obvious to you, then your brain is made of oatmeal.
Well, that was a rigorous and scientific reply. Ho ...

with external hydrogen you get twice us much fuel from biomass, then with biomass alone;
In biomass you have a self-propagating solar collector. If you set it up right, your energy input is limited t ...

Pete,
You can do better than this, can't you? Much of your response is based on these assumptions:
1. Pimentel & Patzek is always right. Anyone who dares disagree with them is closed-mined, naiv ...

Yes. But only produce bodily waste if they are eating, which they won't be once you have channelled the entire photosynthetic capacity of the planet into biojetfuel.
Read the fine print would you? P ...

So....who you gonna depolymerize to keep jet setting?
So...you got any better ideas for converting waste into something useful?

No need to depolymerize people. Each person produces ~75 lb of bodil ...

I think there is going to come a day when Lorenzo sends his own family members to the thermal-depolymerisation plant to get more of the precious fuel.
Thanks for that comment. It manages to be both p ...

I am not obligated to disprove an untested process. We know that different algaes grows under lots of conditions. Whether such growth can be scaled up, managed, maintained, and produce net energy to r ...

BTW, more evidence that there is more than enough biomass to keep the planet well oiled:
"There are almost no limits on how much biomass can be grown. The continuous growth of plants on our planet ex ...