Monday, December 12, 2011

On bioethanol

I learned about bioethanol when we went to the lab at the law school. Bioethanol is created out of sugars, and those can be gotten from a number of plants, but mostly just those that have a lot of fibrous bits in them. Dr. Rood told us about his father and the way that he created a system of production that makes both paper and fuel out of banana trees.

I am afraid that those trees are grown on plantations with wage slavery populations. That is sad to me if it is true.

We also learned that diesel engines freeze up in the winter and that an owner would have to plug their car in over night in order to make sure that their car did not freeze.

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