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March 2nd, 2008 at 07:58pm Casey McConnell 510

Much like the human potential biomass as a source of transportation energy is boundless but we must first take the steps to make it such. There are many dedicated organizations putting in the sweat equity required to make this resource a realization in today’s business model.

However at what point do we as a society need to jump and calculate the costs at a later date? It is much like the idea of our fore fathers who took the chance to cross the Atlantic to reach a new land with unlimited possibilities with out doing multiple feasibility studies. At some point there needs to be a collective ambition to realize we don’t know the risks of such a venture however with out taking chances we will never know the possibilities of change and will be limited by our established resource, fossil fuel.

Image a business sector that has the ability to transform our everyday existence by replacing our ideas of a limited energy resource but rather take the pioneering spirit that we have an unlimited resource if we only dare to believe in that which we can’t perceive yet! We must create an atmosphere of ingenuity in the energy sector in order to transform the hierarchy of the established business model that has brought us to this day and age.

The question that remains is the risk factor of establishing such a sector who should burden such a risk? Shouldn’t we all take it upon our shoulders to burden this risk? If not, we all stand to lose when market turbulence’s occur and we have no alternative to the status co.

Cellulosic ethanol is realistic today! We must establish this industry now in order to learn, conserve and adapt. How can one learn in the laboratory that which must be learnt on a business level? Research and science are aides to business but business is the catalysis which will drive innovation.

The “1 Billion Dry Tons” study has established that there is the potential to displace 30% of our current petroleum usage. Everyday we wait we squander this exhaustible resource.

We must take the steps today to replace this energy resource with the energy resource of tomorrow because it will require the energy of today to produce the energy of tomorrow.

Only in the act of doing can we see the processes in action and therefore create the improvements in which we make the process more efficient.

QiBioenegy

Entry Filed under: Environment, Aspen, Colorado, The West, Aspen Life Post, Business, United Post

3 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Star Eagle  |  March 3rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Find and read "The Emporer Wears No Clothes" for a fascinating story on the history of Hemp and its varied applications for human use. This books is far more than I ever envisioned when I started reading. The irony is that this is the one plant that has the potential to $ave our sorry asses. Fuel, Fiber, Food, Medicine, No Tilling, No Irrigation, No Pesticides-Herbicides, Replenishes the Atmosphere, Multiple Yields Annually. On and On...

  • 2. Casey McConnell  |  March 4th, 2008 at 8:53 am

    Thanks for the comment. In looking at just crop potential of hemp it only yields 3 to 6 dry tons per yr. On the other hand switchgrass yields range from 8-15 tons per yr. If you consider that one ton at today's conversion ability equals 70 gallons of ethanol this is a pretty big difference in fuel production per acre. Not to mention we would have a heck of a time getting people on board to farm hemp.

  • 3. Star Eagle  |  March 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am

    I defer to your yield estimates as I don't have any info to confirm or dispute but I will say that if we are only looking at the conversion to ethanol then your point is taken.

    However what I was trying to point out is the greater benefit
    overall to growing hemp with its multiple uses.

    Granted, I believe the best solution would probably be a combination of switchgrass, hemp etc.

    As far as seeing the advantages of getting past our having "a heck of a time getting people on board to farm hemp", I can only refer you to the book and the history of hemp and see for yourself its manipulation from required cultivation to its present pariah status.

    I quibble not when I say the history of hemp is fascinating and should be read by all as a primer to understanding the greater deceptions of our time.

    The real solutions will be found in knowledge, then the implementation of that knowledge.

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