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How Biofuels Go Bad

Biofuels are a hot topic. It seems everyone, and I mean everyone, wants to weigh in on it, from Bill Gates to Fidel Castro. So I want to send out a special thanks to Jesus' General for posting on what happens when biofuels go bad:

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2008/03/food-or-fuel.html

The case can be made that Brazil already produces enough sugar cane ethanol to fuel the entire continent of South America; and that we could use the same technology without creating food shortages or following some of the more radical soylent green biofuel dystopias floating around in the policy-o-sphere like using thermal depolymerization on people....if you do not know about thermal depolymerization, please read about turning turkey guts into diesel and the same could be done to people; scary huh? I think so:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1125_031125_turkeyoil.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

Now Libertarian phobic fantasies have been around forever, and will be around as long as there are libertarians, and I apologize in advance while I indulge mine, can you imagine what a totalitarian nation could do to get rid of prisons, get rid of debtors, get rid of....? Fill in the blank.

Once the state moves in on rights to your organs as Steve has been posting about, it is only a matter of time before they move in on your dead or deviant body. You have to ask yourself, "what value is a dead body or deviant person in the eyes of the state?" It seems like science fiction but it is not. I assure you. Science gone bad always frightens me. Despite all these strategies we need to know that earth depleting crop strategies will not work in the long term.

The best hope for the future lies in the use of the Tesla technology that China is working on and in post-quantum physics harnessing electromagnetism, solar technology, wind power and tide and geothermal power.

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