Sustainable farming & Bio Diesel

[Nightsky]

I was curious to hear your opinions on Sustainable farming & Bio Diesel. I personally worry about the fact that fossil fuels and natural gas are used for everything. We use chemicals to make the dirt useable, with out any of the natural nutrients normally found in dirt. Then we plant Franken seeds that only grow once using gas powered equipment. After that we spray it all down with petro chemicals. Finally we package in petro chemicals and ship it all around the world using a lot of gas instead of growing locally. Heck people even regularly drink water out of plastic bottles which has been packaged and shipped, even when they have clean drinking water available to them by tap.

 

Also I feel that Fossil fuels are artificially cheap as we never see the true price. Fossil fuel production has peaked there is clear evidence. It is causing vast amounts of pollution and making people sick and degrading there quality of life. Just the damage it is doing to our drinkable water alone is cause for concern especially since selling water has become such big business.

 

I’d like to see a return to crop rotation and organic farming. People need to pay the real cost of food and eat lower on the food chain lowering the amount of meat in their diet. We need to eat local and stop having our food shipped in from thousands of miles away. Government money needs to be invested in biodiesel technologies such as algae oils along with other renewable energy sources like solar and wind. I believe the only reason these technologies don’t move forward is because they decentralize power, which is good for the majority but bad for the rich few.

[Nightsky]

The reason I put this in the health section is because there is proof that it’s better for your health. Fossil fuels

 

We extend 10 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food energy we create. This video does a good job of explaining Peak oil

 

Here is a video that basically tries to make peak oil seem like a silly thing to worry about. I completely disagree, but think it’s important to see both sides of an argument

Tar sands are not oil, so he contradicts himself when he basically says they are. Tar sands are many more times expensive. The fact that we are now harvesting Tar sands points to the problem rather then reassures. There is no research that says tar sands will come any where close to supporting our energy needs for 100 years. Comparing the finite nature of oil to the finite nature of the sun is ridiculous. I do agree that it won’t be then end of humanity, but as we are not planning for the future the rising prices will cause suffering and economic collapse.

 

All the Ships, farm equipment, and Trucks already have diesel engines perfectly capable of running on biodiesel fuel.

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. and the most promising way it seems to make biodiesel is algae

 

And here’s a video about buying local that is a little long and boring but still informative.