http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/04/04/writers-scientists-cross-swords-in-global-battle-over-biofuels/ The world's most widely-read biofuels daily Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:30:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/04/04/writers-scientists-cross-swords-in-global-battle-over-biofuels/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 AUTO REVIEWS BLOG » Blog Archive » Today in Biofuels: Writers, scientists cross swords over biofuels; Boeing completes hydrogen-powered test flight; US ethanol production up 37 percent Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:12:20 +0000 http://biofuelsdigest.com/blog2/2008/04/04/writers-scientists-cross-swords-in-global-battle-over-biofuels/#comment-1346 [...] A new section debuts in Biofuels Digest today - World Opinion, in recognition of the growing debate over biofuels. Biofuels producers, financiers, policymakers, friends and foes alike should pay increasing attention to the editorial page chatter about biofuels. Today, Michigan State materials professor Bruce Dale addresses what he terms “recycled canards” of biofuels critics. “Cornell University entomologist David Pimentel—the fountainhead of quasi-scholarship for the anti-ethanol movement—makes the bizarre claim that it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol (if you count rainfall absorbed by corn plants as a bad thing). The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page gleefully repeats it. Walter Williams repeats it again. And so it goes, ad infinitum.” [...] [...] A new section debuts in Biofuels Digest today – World Opinion, in recognition of the growing debate over biofuels. Biofuels producers, financiers, policymakers, friends and foes alike should pay increasing attention to the editorial page chatter about biofuels. Today, Michigan State materials professor Bruce Dale addresses what he terms “recycled canards” of biofuels critics. “Cornell University entomologist David Pimentel—the fountainhead of quasi-scholarship for the anti-ethanol movement—makes the bizarre claim that it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol (if you count rainfall absorbed by corn plants as a bad thing). The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page gleefully repeats it. Walter Williams repeats it again. And so it goes, ad infinitum.” [...]

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