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...cropland. They found that corn ethanol produced in the U.S. had a carbon debt of 93 years, meaning it would take nearly a century for ethanol, which does produce fewer greenhouse gases when burned than fossil fuels, to make up for the carbon released in that initial landscape conversion. Palm tree biodiesel in Indonesia and Malaysia - one of the most controversial biofuels currently in use, because of its connection to tropical deforestation in those countries - has a carbon debt of 86 years. Soybean biodiesel in the Amazonian rainforest has a debt of 320 years. "People don't realize there...
...biofuel by the end of the year - the price of crops rises. That in turn encourages farmers to clear virgin land and plant more crops, releasing even more carbon in a vicious cycle. For instance, as the U.S. uses more biodiesel, much of which is made from soybeans or palm oil, farmers in Brazil or Indonesia will clear more land to raise soybeans to replace those used for fuel. "When we ask the world's farmers to feed 6 billion people and ask them to produce fuel, that requires them to use additional land," says Fargione. "That land...
Cost of a proposed FBI computer database that will identify criminals and terrorists by using biometric information like palm prints, scars, tattoos, iris patterns and facial shapes...
Number of sets of fingerprints the FBI currently has on file. The bureau plans to use palm prints as a second means of identification...
...feel about President Bush throwing his weight around in the Middle East? -Roham Rashtchy West Palm Beach, Fla.It has been a disaster. There is a huge disconnect between the real war and the politicized war. I wish that our representatives had more experience with the real war. If any of the men who were eager to get into this war had actually been in one, they would have found...