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Originally Posted by euromodder
Exactly.
You wouldn't get away with an open system over here if it carries a lot of pollutants.
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I actually remember seeing something about report on the water usage and subsequent quality but I never read the report. I'll look that one up later.
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Humm... Am I the first to notice that the linked press release is from 2007? That's not news, that's olds :-)
But I think it's symptomatic of a lot of the criticism of fuel ethanol (and biofuels in general). The critic pick out the obvious faults of a new technology being bootstrapped into production, and assume they'd extend to a mature system.
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In this case it's something that has been brought up, dealt with, and then regurgitated all over the internet as being a major problem. Water is a huge concern for biofuel production since biofuels tend to be made from agriculture. There should be more concern about what happens to the water not just how much water flows through the facility. Large amounts of water is used for Oil production too.