With rapid change all around us, techniques for growing crops could soon undergo radical transformation as well. Inflation in food prices is due not only to food shortages - brought on by population pressure, severe droughts and vast acreages devoted to growing corn for ethanol production - but to the ever increasing cost of fuel, which makes trucking crops long distances, and keeping them fresh along the way, an increasingly expensive proposition. The idea of growing food locally makes sense since it solves the problem of transporting crops and takes away the spoilage issue. One of the technologies being promoted is roof gardening.
ENERGY ISSUES Don't blame ethanol production for hikes in cost of food
... lifecycle emission impacts of fuel production from both direct and indirect emissions, including... current analyses we have determined that ethanol from corn starch will be able to comply with the r...VII. Impacts on Cost of Renewable Fuels, Gasoline, and Diesel. A. Renew...
In the current hype about electric vehicles, too little attention has been paid to the checkered history of subsidizing alternative energy technologies. Just as the electric vehicle is being hailed as America's cure for oil "addiction," the same was said not too long ago about biofuels. But mandating the production and use of corn-based ethanol jacked up food prices, depleted scarce groundwater resources and cost consumers more to fill up their cars. Despite generous federal and state subsidies, many ethanol producers have gone out of business.
... the current political context of high food costs, high fuel prices and Doha development round sensi... trade because they reduce production costs, giving subsidized producers an unfair advan...
WASHINGTON - The Energy Department awarded $114 million in grants Tuesday to build four small-scale biorefineries in Missouri, Oregon, Colorado and Wisconsin, hoping to demonstrate production of cellulosic ethanol. The government grants will cover about a third of the cost of the projects.
The Deseret Morning News reported (Jan. 8) that ranchers are concerned about the increased cost of livestock feed, particularly corn. With 15 percent of the corn crop going to the production of ethanol, it drives up the cost of livestock feed, which drives up the cost of food. The federal government subsidizes the production of ethanol by a 51-cent-a-gallon federal tax credit refiners receive for each gallon. How much fossil fuel is required to grow and refine ethanol? The Department of Agriculture concluded in 2004 that it takes one unit of fossil fuel to produce 1.67 units of ethanol.
CHICAGO, April 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Farmacule BioIndustries, a Brisbane-based agbiotech company developing molecular farming technology to cost effectively mass produce high-value proteins, biofuels and bioplastics in plants for various applications, has introduced INPACT, its patented gene activation technology, at the 2006 Biotech Industry Organization annual conference in Chicago. Farmacule and its research partner Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have developed new sugarcane plants that can be used for more cost-effective ethanol production without compromising the commercial sugar potential of these plants. The key component in producing Farmacule's new plants is the Company's patented gene activation technology, INPACT ('In-Plant Activation technology').
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