10.3 million hectares are devoted to livestock that generate several times more green house gases than passenger vehicles. If the same land was devoted to energy crops, it would be the equivalent of discovering an oil field that would dwarf the largest field in Kuwait, producing the ethanol the equivalent of petrol extracted from crude coming from a 2.8 million barrel per day oil field. Think about that. All of our GHG emissions from livestock and vehicles eliminated, PLUS the export value of 29.3 billion gallons of ethanol whose price averaged $2.30 USD from 2005 to 2014. New Zealand would have $84.1 billion in foreign trade, in perpetuity. Traditional approaches to Climate change demand that alternative fuels become cheaper than fossil fuels, making this future economic boom for NZ uncertain. With trade partner nations who had agreed to Carbon Taxes establishing the real cost of fossil fuels, the technology and economics are favorable now, with NZ grown feedstocks being Miscanthus, Switchgrass or Sorghum. The following Youtube is an October 2014 technology update of interest to Green Wonks since it covers economic, agriculture and technical details of the actual plants doing cellulosic ethanol production. POET-DSM starts at 7:15. Textual notes of the presentations my be found at EESI page: eesi.org/briefings/view/100614cellulosic
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:50:29 +0000
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