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A genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically engineered organism (GEO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are generally known as recombinant DNA technology. With recombinant DNA technology, DNA molecules from different sources are combined in vitro into one molecule to create a new gene. This DNA is then transferred into an organism and causes the expression of modified or novel traits.

Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods produced from GMO that have had their DNA altered through genetic engineering. GM foods were first put on the market in the early 1990s. The most common modified foods are derived from plants: soybean, corn, canola cotton seed oil and wheat.


2008-05-04

Bio Fuel and Bio Diesel  

Grow our own fuel is the battle cry of the changeover to bio-fuels and bio-diesel. In fact, the American Trucking Association is now the approval of a plan for up to 5% mixture of all diesel fuel to bio diesel.

Sound great legal, even a few air-ologists say, not so fast, what about severe storms and Crop failures? In fact, I myself have some problems with bio-diesel, that nobody has bothered to answer for me. You see it takes water to grow our fuel. The more we need bio-fuel, the more water we need to process and grow bio diesel. It also takes fuel to grow them from the tractors and agricultural machinery also that the turbines to keep crops from freezing, cultivators, irrigation pumps, with etc.

Indeed such as Monsanto and Cargill terminator seed with genetically modified seeds to get the growing problems Water use to 2 litres of water to grow, the equivalent of one litre of fuel. Then it takes 8 gallons to process and refine, with fairly good super water treatment, filtration and recycling. In other words, it takes 10 litres of water to produce one gallons of fuel and many capital costs to build on all these refineries and filtration stations.

But if our bio-fuel is subsidized by the government, reducing taxes and financing, then it seems in the end it is not economically a good deal? If the government half of the taxes on fuels now, the prices would be for quite a bit and help our economy and lower prices normal diesel fuel and that the competition of bio-fuels actual costs or gapped. Crude is relatively free, you suck it from the ground. This is a good amount of the cost of goods sold. How sell filtering out dirt and the rocks and selling of people for whom gardens. We take crude oil and refine it and then sell the other on chemical and plastic companies.

The issues are with the efficiency of the biofuels grown and ready to market Then there are the questions bouquet fuel demanded from the governments. So bio-fuels have some reality checks and obstacles to think about in my opinion, I want the real numbers. Sounds like a company treated the welfare state without a time limit demand for proof that it really economically viable without fudging the figures? So much for SOX, free pass on bio-fuels? I have questions, no one answered and you can not find it in ethanol news or any other place, so I kind as the "Turn coal fuel" better. Battelle has some very interesting new technologies and the State of Montana is the research tool there, and there will always be some political play also.

I have nothing against what makes sense, but they must be economically feasible and viable before we go running without an effective solution to our supply and demand in the World-Wide markets such as China and India come online with needs of their own needs, which ultimately far exceed the demand here at home. Yes, we must do something, someone please show me the real numbers, full reality and stop the BS? Think of this.

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