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So, did the corn-ethanol lobby bit the dust?
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I assume domestic ethanol production is more or less a fixed amount because law requires E10 fuel.
To be fair though, fracking and producing more oil than we consume would still not allow the US to be "energy independent". Our refineries aren't equipped for the oil we produce, so we have to sell it abroad and import the crude our refineries can process.
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06-11-2023, 10:56 PM
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Opec says "bend over, we're going in dry".
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06-11-2023, 11:49 PM
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There was an observable point in time when the USofA went from energy independence and exporting, to having to terrorize Germany into buying our hydrocarbons.
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06-13-2023, 11:23 PM
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I assume domestic ethanol production is more or less a fixed amount because law requires E10 fuel.
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There had been talks in Brazil about increasing the ethanol content from E27 to E30, which I guess won't turn out any good because of an excessive reliance on sugarcane as a feedstock, even though Brazil is among the biggest exporters of meat (including poultry and pork, not only beef) and the usage of distillation grain from corn-derived ethanol could lead to a quicker weight gain on livestock.
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To be fair though, fracking and producing more oil than we consume would still not allow the US to be "energy independent". Our refineries aren't equipped for the oil we produce, so we have to sell it abroad and import the crude our refineries can process.
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Reminds the day I was talking with a Venezuelan refugee, then an old man who is a fanboy of Lula da Silva came and said Venezuela was better than Brazil because it had petroleum, and some rants against Christian NGOs which lease money for Venezuelans to buy a ticket to get out of Venezuela. Even though the Venezuelan refugee had all the patience to explain this very same issue, that Venezuelan crude oil was most of an extra-heavy variety which requires blends with imported light crude oil in order to enable refining, Lula's fanboy didn't seem to understand it very well ![Turtle](/forum/images/smilies/turtle.gif)
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06-13-2023, 11:37 PM
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Even though the Venezuelan refugee had all the patience to explain this very same issue, that Venezuelan crude oil was most of an extra-heavy variety which requires blends with imported light crude oil in order to enable refining, Lula's fanboy didn't seem to understand it very well ![Turtle](/forum/images/smilies/turtle.gif)
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Those who believe there are simple solutions to complex problems are ignorant, and they are way more common than informed people. Most people should not have opinions about most things, because they are ignorant of the details. We're all experts in the age of Twitter though.
Even in positions of great responsibility, we see dopes making ignorant comments like we will still need the fossil fuel industry for 10 more years, or injecting UV light into the lungs might be a great therapy against the Wu-Flu.
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06-13-2023, 11:49 PM
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Most people should not have opinions about most things, because they are ignorant of the details. We're all experts in the age of Twitter though.
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I had always been quite curious about how stuff works, even when I was still a toddler and would often pick screwdrivers and wrenches trying to dismantle the VW Beetle my parents had when I was born. Maybe this also led my mother and her mother to get it replaced by a car which was at least seemingly not so easy for me to keep doing that
Self-proclaimed Twitter specialists OTOH just find someone who matches their political inclinations and go for whatever stupidity is endorsed by such "influencers".
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06-14-2023, 12:29 AM
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Even in positions of great responsibility, we see dopes making ignorant comments like we will still need the fossil fuel industry for 10 more years, or injecting UV light into the lungs might be a great therapy against the Wu-Flu.
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Two things that might well be true. I thought it was inhaling liquid bleach that was the dopey comment.
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06-14-2023, 09:22 AM
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Ultraviolet light was used as a treatment for sepsis before antibiotics.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783265/
The one thing that we know kills batsniffels more than just about anything else is UV.
When you're a few kilobites of genetic code held together in a single molecule thick fat sack the one thing you don't want to ever see is UV light.
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06-14-2023, 01:14 PM
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Great post. I shall find some excuse to work 'batsniffels' in conversation.
And the Historical Introduction should be required reading.
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In 1801 Johann Wilhelm Ritter, a Polish physicist working at the University of Jena in Germany discovered a form of light beyond the violet end of the spectrum that he called “Chemical Rays” and which later became known as “Ultraviolet” light
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People are bioluminescent
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Photographing the glow of the human body - National Geographic
The glow is a rhythmic one, brightening and fading over the course of the day with a peak around 4pm. Kobayashi thinks that this rhythm is driven by an internal body clock, for he managed to...
https://gizmodo.com › how-we-can-use-light-to-see-inside-the-human-body-1686251282...
https://www.sciencealert.com › you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actually-glow-in-visible-light
You Can't See It, But Humans Actually Glow With Our Own
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https://www.sciencealert.com › you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actually-glow-in-visible-light
You Can't See It, But Humans Actually Glow With Our Own ...
(Masaki Kobayashi et al) When you hear about bioluminescence, your mind probably jumps to deep-sea creatures like the angler fish, which uses millions of bacteria to make a light appear in front of its head to catch prey and illuminate your nightmares. But what about humans?
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https://www.livescience.com › 7799-strange-humans-glow-visible-light.html
Strange! Humans Glow in Visible Light | Live Science
The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the...
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Luminous being we are.
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