Re: U.S. makes biggest Canada feed wheat buy in decade

March 10, 2011

That means lots of people could be being fed if all that corn wasn't being wasted being made into ethanol. Not too distant future generations will damn our current generation of leaders for not having any realistic energy and food policies instead basing what they had on shoddy science and corruption.

In a message dated 3/9/2011 9:39:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

Strong demand from ethanol producers has driven corn stocks to a 15-year low, while Canada has more feed wheat than usual after excessive rain last year and untimely frost.

March 10, 2011

Wait, my generation does not already damn short sided energy policy?

That means lots of people could be being fed if all

that corn wasn't being wasted being made into ethanol.

Not too distant future generations will damn our

current generation of leaders for not having any

realistic energy and food policies instead basing what

they had on shoddy science and corruption.

In a message dated 3/9/2011 9:39:28 P.M. Eastern

Standard Time, no_reply writes:

Strong

demand from ethanol producers has driven corn

stocks to a 15-year low, while Canada has more

feed wheat than usual after excessive rain last

year and untimely frost.

March 10, 2011

What I mean was that it hasn't gotten truly terrible yet. It will eventually though.

Which leads to another point I was thinking about. What happens to all that digital data when the servers get turned off because of energy scarcity? What happens when the internet is limited or even, citing limited space on servers because of said scarcity, certain information is erased to be gone forever? or simply can't be readily accessed because of limitations on energy?

Wait, my generation does not already damn short sided energy policy?

March 10, 2011

-- In FAMSecretSociety , VISIGOTH@... wrote:

" That means lots of people could be being fed if all that corn wasn't being

wasted being made into ethanol. Not too distant future generations will damn our

current generation of leaders for not having any realistic energy and food

policies instead basing what they had on shoddy science and corruption. "

While you CAN eat the corn that's being made into ethanol, it's not feed corn

either for animals or humans. I think what you mean to say is that if we weren't

growing crops for ethanol, we could plant crops for food.

Administrator

March 10, 2011

That won't happen in countries that are building more nuclear reactors. Only in

countries that are scared of nuclear technology.

Administrator

What I mean was that it hasn't gotten truly terrible yet. It will eventually

though.

Which leads to another point I was thinking about. What happens to all that

digital data when the servers get turned off because of energy scarcity? What

happens when the internet is limited or even, citing limited space on servers

because of said scarcity, certain information is erased to be gone forever? or

simply can't be readily accessed because of limitations on energy?

March 10, 2011

True. We should have been putting that money we are spending on windmills into nuclear plants.

I don't know how popular those green programs are going to be anyway since they will be primarily harvesting energy in the Southwest and Texas and shipping it via long powerlines to the Northeast, at least according to the maps I've seen. It completely bypasses the Northwest and Southeastern states. It seem to be a sop to California and the Northeastern states who have fought so hard against new power plants. So this way they can get away with not building power plants by taking power from other parts of the country and indeed taxing the whole country for this immensely expensive public works project.

In a message dated 3/10/2011 3:19:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

That won't happen in countries that are building more nuclear reactors. Only in countries that are scared of nuclear technology.Administrator

March 10, 2011

True. We should have been putting that money we are spending on windmills into nuclear plants.

I don't know how popular those green programs are going to be anyway since they will be primarily harvesting energy in the Southwest and Texas and shipping it via long powerlines to the Northeast, at least according to the maps I've seen. It completely bypasses the Northwest and Southeastern states. It seem to be a sop to California and the Northeastern states who have fought so hard against new power plants. So this way they can get away with not building power plants by taking power from other parts of the country and indeed taxing the whole country for this immensely expensive public works project.

In a message dated 3/10/2011 3:19:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

That won't happen in countries that are building more nuclear reactors. Only in countries that are scared of nuclear technology.Administrator

March 10, 2011

" I don't know how popular those green programs are going to be anyway since they

will be primarily harvesting energy in the Southwest and Texas and shipping it

via long powerlines to the Northeast, at least according to the maps I've seen.

It completely bypasses the Northwest and Southeastern states. It seem to be a

sop to California and the Northeastern states who have fought so hard against

new power plants. So this way they can get away with not building power plants

by taking power from other parts of the country and indeed taxing the whole

country for this immensely expensive public works project. "

The more distance electricity travels, the more energy gets lost in transit. If

people want to save energy and make it cost less, they need to build power

plants closer to where the power is actually used.

The current plan wastes an enormous amount of energy.

Administrator

March 10, 2011