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December 09, 2005
The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News ClearinghouseThe place with the things, and the stuff...
Before oil palms, which are small and scrubby, are planted, vast forest trees, containing a much greater store of carbon, must be felled and burnt. Having used up the drier lands, the plantations are moving into the swamp forests, which grow on peat. When they've cut the trees, the planters drain the ground. As the peat dries it oxidises, releasing even more carbon dioxide than the trees. In terms of its impact on both the local and global environments, palm biodiesel is more destructive than crude oil from Nigeria.
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Posted by dymaxion at December 9, 2005 05:31 PM