Food vs. Fuel: Saltwater Crops May Be Key to Solving Earth's Land Crunch
source: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/saltwatercrops.html
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Saltwater-loving plants could open up half a million square miles of previously unusable territory for energy crops, helping settle the heated food-versus-fuel debate, which nearly derailed biofuel progress last year.
By increasing the world's irrigated acreage by 50 percent, saltwater crops could provide a no-guilt source of biomass for alt fuel makers and tone down the rhetoric of U.N. officials worried about food prices, one of whom called the conversion of arable land to biofuel crops "a crime against humanity."
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By increasing the world's irrigated acreage by 50 percent, saltwater crops could provide a no-guilt source of biomass for alt fuel makers and tone down the rhetoric of U.N. officials worried about food prices, one of whom called the conversion of arable land to biofuel crops "a crime against humanity."
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daledrops
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feed the world
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daledrops
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justright
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Stop corn bio-diesel now.
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justright
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motokoinversailles
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justright:
totaly, it causes its own hoard of problems
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motokoinversailles
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justright
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This idea seems much more plausible than food for fuel.
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