So – If a farmer raises a crop of say, soybeans, for ethanol production, what are the fertilizer/herbicide/pesticide regulations on the resulting crop? Do the same restrictions apply? Or are they waived because the crop is not a food crop? What happens to those chemicals in the production of the ethanol? Are they burned as part of the fuel? If so, are those resulting particulates measured? How are they measured?
Anyone know?
Here is a link suggesting that these chemical residues are produced and can be measured : http://www.pnas.org/content/103/30/11206.short
Grab and Keel 
I thought it had been a while since I saw Grab N Keel at the top of DailyPUMA.
I don’t know the answer to your question. I have read that when 80 year old trees burn in a forest fire, they release stored pollutants into the air.
What could mitigate the biofuel pollution results are how efficiently the crop can be sent to it’s biofuel processing destination. If a crop yield yields more crops and some pollutants but the processing plant is very nearby resulting in an overall more efficient conversion, then less crops are needed per gallon of biofuel created because less energy went into transporting the corps for conversion.
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Yeah, it has been a while. I can’t seem to just walk away, however.
What got me to wondering about this in the first place actually, was kitty litter. I have one cat with asthma. I changed to the wheat litter because it was unscented and flushed in the sewer system. I’m an inveterate label reader and I came to realize that I didn’t know the source of that wheat litter my cats were pawing every day.
This is a simple link that indicates some of the chemicals possible for wheat products:
http://editor.nourishedmagazine.com.au/articles/wheaty-indiscretions-what-happens-to-wheat-from-seed-to-storage
I think discovery on the subject of possible airborne contaminants from biofuels and biodiesel is a big project. I imagine each possible chemical would have to be identified, then similarly, its own burn results and its results in combination with the other products. I don’t even think we have all the information on all products before they are applied, because the manufacturers have gotten cagey about withholding data as proprietary.
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As for walking away, I think it’s prudent for all Hillary Clinton supporters from the past who had blogs to post they want her for president. I think too many bloggers let her down this year. She did her part, she worked hard for the past 3 and 1/2 years, all the bloggers had to do was post they wanted her for president this year, and it didn’t seem to happen.
I can only find a handful of past Hillary Clinton supporters who bothered to post a topic in 2012 that they wanted her for president this year.
All of the out of work chemists could probably go into business for themselves offering their expertise as to “what is in that” in regards to our food supply.
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From Reuters:
Clinton urges South Sudan, Sudan to settle oil dispute
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/03/us-southsudan-clinton-idUSBRE8720G320120803
She belongs to the world for now, a place where she gives new leaders a hug. Would you ask her to go against her Party, perform what would be the equivalence of a coup to the world and undermine her own work? Even if NOTHING else good can be said of the Obama administration, she is part of it. It cannot be untangled. She will be part of the work even if she does not continue in the next term.
There is no revolution here. There may still be evolution.
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