Dupont sees key GMO role in ethanol corn challenge - Reuters

Eugene

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:31 AM
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Dupont sees key GMO role in ethanol corn challenge - Reuters

Warning: This article is basically a Dupont press release
with a skeptical remark thrown in for "balance."

Dupont sees key GMO role in ethanol corn challenge

Fri Feb 9, 7:47 PM ET

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - New strains of genetically modified corn will
play a key role in meeting soaring demand as U.S thirst for ethanol fuel cuts into
supplies, a top seed company scientist said on Friday.

Dupont's Bill Niebur, the firm's vice president for genetics research and development,
said demand for ethanol means the race is on to rapidly ramp up grain yields.

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The rapidly increasing number of corn-hungry U.S. ethanol plants has raised concerns
there will not be enough grain to go around.

Industry insiders expect farmers to plant significant new corn acreage in the United
States this year, but many warn that new land is limited, making yield increases more
urgent.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070210/sc_nm/usa_corn_gmo_dc

America will produce its way out of its energy fix.
Technology and big business will provide.
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ixion

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Sat Feb-10-07 07:44 AM
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1. ethanol is a red herring, IMO

we need to get away from the internal combustion engine as a power plant. It's inefficient and it pollutes.

a) It takes more energy to grow the corn that the corn would provide in return, so ultimately there is an energy defecit there.

b) We could never grow enough corn to fully replace oil.

These are just my opinions, of course.

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Double T

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Sat Feb-10-07 08:33 AM
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2. Agreed. Ethanol is just an exchange for fossil fuels............

and the price of food will skyrocket once the wall street crew gets their grubby mitts around IT. Emissions are still a problem with ethanol and it does little to curb global warming. Hydrogen is the immediate answer.

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