wind turbines

I live in the lakes and the best place for one would be around the sellafield site. people there have already gotten used to living next to a nuclear site so it makes sense to have one there.

 

Well I've not heard of using hemp as fuel but I know some trial fields of the stuff was grown a few years ago, for some reason it was hush hush.
I'm guessing incase someone tried smoking the stuff

Ok I know its not quite the same stuff.
When I tried it I found it needed a lot of heat to grow well.
Something we rarely get.

Personally I think Biofuel is a non starter, we could never grow enough of the raw material.
In fact isn't it partly responsible for even more of the rainforest around the world being destroyed?

 

Only because the scheme was poorly thought out. It can work, but needs better planning and organisation.

 

What it needs is more land, we would need to cover the entire planet in green stuff in order to grow enough.
Then where do we grow our food for the ever increasing population?

 

Did you see what I put earlier about the study finding hemp to give a higher ethanol yield than other biofuel crops, grow in places where we can't currently grow food crops, and improve the structure of the soil so that we can?

 

Yeah, I read that,
But do we plough up every bit of the country in order to grow that? I cant see the country disappearing under fields of hemp, grazing land needs to be maintained.
Not much land in my part of the country is unused, one way or another.

And what about the rest of the world, are they going to be growing it as well?

 

But the growing of sugar cane on land otherwise used for food crops put pressure on the rainforest.
There is only so much land on this planet.
Most will be needed for growing food in the future, so how can we grow acres and acres of Hemp, sugar cane, or whatever, just to turn it into fuel.

I did see a while back that a power station was either proposed or even being built in the UK.
It was totally green and used biofuel to burn.

We were going to import the green material, some kind of wood chips, from Canada.

 

In some of the fields in my county farmers are growing Elephant Grass and from what we can gather when it has been cut and dried in bales it is sent off to power stations and used as fuel to power them.

Can someone tell me which countries it is that are destroying the rain forests to grow Palm Oil as i have seen it on the telly at some point but can't remember off the top of me head which countries...Thanks