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What the hell is that? I see a yellow circle with it's mouth going up and down. Is it trying to eat corn? I hope that's what it's trying to do. Regardless, it better have a lot of money.
Is this only going to get worse with the ethanol craze?
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- The oxygen-poor "dead zone" off the Louisiana and Texas coasts isn't quite as big as predicted this year, but it is still the third-largest ever mapped, a scientist said Saturday.
Crabs, eels and other creatures usually found on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico are swimming in crowds on the surface because there is too little oxygen in their usual habitat, said Nancy Rabalais, chief scientist for northern Gulf hypoxia studies.
"We very often see swarms of crabs, mostly blue crabs and their close relatives, swimming at the surface when the oxygen is low," she wrote in an e-mail from a research ship as it returned to Cocodrie from its annual measurement trip.
Eels, which live in sediments 60 to 70 feet below the water surface, are an even less common sight, she said.
The 7,900-square-mile area with almost no oxygen, a condition called hypoxia, is about the size of Connecticut and Delaware together. The Louisiana-Texas dead zone is the world's second-largest hypoxic area, she said.
This year's is about 7.5 percent smaller than what Eugene Turner, Rabalais' husband and a professor of oceanography and coastal sciences at Louisiana State University, had predicted, judging by nitrogen content in the Mississippi River watershed.
He had predicted it would be about 8,540 square miles, which would have made it the largest measured in at least 22 years. More storms than normal may have reduced hypoxia by keeping the waters roiled, Rabalais said.
Hypoxia occurs when fresh water pouring in from the Mississippi River floats above the heavier salt water in the Gulf. Algae die and fall to the bottom, where their decay uses oxygen faster than it is brought down from the surface. Eventually, the lower layer holds too little oxygen for fish and other aquatic life.
Nitrogen, from sources including fertilizer, erosion and sewage, speeds up the process by feeding algae.
The dead zone was larger in 2002 and 2001, when it covered 8,500 and 8,006 square miles respectively, and was almost as big in 1999. Scientists want to reduce the zone to about 2,500 square miles.
If there is no one on this board, are there other links that may have this information?
Just curious... :confuse:
You wouldn't like the station around me that sells E85. It's usually only 20 ~ 30 cents cheaper than regular unleaded at that station. But since its gasoline is higher priced than the other stations around, the E85 is only about a dime or so other stations' 87 octane. This station is on my commute to/from work so it would be bad for me to stop there, but my vehicle is not compatible anyway...
Unless you were going that way anyway.
I agree that corn is food first. If there is any left over for fuel fine. I think that Congress got it backward. Make all the fuel you can out of corn. Let the people eat switchgrass seems to be the mentality paid for in Congress by the likes of ADM.
Drink the alcohol, eat the corn and use bio-diesel for fuel. Disclaimer: Don’t drink and drive or drive under the influence of corn.
It is pathetic that we can't keep enough corn in the supply chain to loan a ship.
We should be looking at ways to reduce demand.
This is the fourth time this year that I am aware of and in every case the “no product” has been corn.
Anyone would be very hard pressed to call any of this a “coincidence”.
I will admit that I have seen ships forced to stop loading for 6 to 24 hours because of train delays, but they knew the product was in route and they never kicked them out of the dock.
Surprisingly it is the USA that is planting new hardwood forest in Brazil. We are installing a hardwood that is eco-friendly, LYPTUS. Great new hybrid that is twice as hard as the hardest Maple.
any report on US farming should include the potential loss of that vital water source. currently, the feds do not regulate its use at all, and it took the glaciers that also created the great lakes to create it.
But, the point remains, the farmers are draining it at alarming rates. because of this, it is monitored. even if its not regulated. on average, the water table is dropping at a rate of about 5ft per year.
His reply to my questions makes for interesting reading. Check it out on today's entry on my blog, the Alternate Route
You are right about corn in everything. Pick up any processed food from Coke to Cookies and that nasty "High Fructose Corn Syrup" is usually number one on the list of ingredients.
Thank you for seeking and sharing this information. BTW, Mr. O’Dell never called me.
What will life be like without tacos and margaritas? People will be sniffing their exhaust to get a buzz....
Don't expect anyone here to feel sorry for the mega-farmers that have run most of the little guys out of business. I for one, owning a small farm know this whole ethanol business is designed to help BIG business, not the little farmer.
A few pennies for Shell and a few pennies for ADM equal a nickel from my pocket.
The prices of corn and gasoline have both gone down, yet my grocery bill remains the same.
Your idea of a family farm and mine are miles apart. The average farm in my part of Minnesota was about 1/10th your average farm. A big dairy farmer would be planting a section (640 acres). Most were the size of mine 200 acres. Whether you believe it or not there was a time that a family could be supported quite well on 200 acres. With all your mega farmers undercutting the working farmer, it is no wonder so many have gone broke. At least I kept my land and the crops pay the taxes. I am fine with that. It was a good place to raise my kids in the 1970s.
I don't think people in CA think much about it at all. They don't even realize their mileage has suffered as a result of the ethanol that is added to the gasoline. They just race around like before. Still buying big SUVs and lifted PU trucks.
One plus, I got a discount on my little 1999 Ranger PU truck because it is Flex Fuel Vehicle. Saved me a few bucks on my insurance. I am thinking of filling it with some HIGH priced E85 ($3.29) before I go for the smog check.... It will be worth the 66 cents per gallon hit to see if it is any cleaner with your home brew fuel.
So far I have not found any links from Google.
This is a quick overview of what Pioneer has coming, Monsanto and Syngenta have similar things in the pipeline.
As far as the seed corn, 10 years is a long time off, we should have a better solution than using corn for ethanol by then.