Factoid/2007/08/29
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Corn Based Biofuels, Polluted Runoff, and Dead Zones
- "One of the worst examples to date is the way a major farm commodity (corn) has been sold as an energy alternative. We dump so much fossil fuel-based fertilizer in the Midwest (about 140 pounds per acre of corn) that this year's 5 percent increase in corn production for "biofuel" and the subsequent nitrogen runoff down the Mississippi has resulted in the largest oxygen-depleted dead zone yet recorded in the Gulf of Mexico--an area of about 8,500 square miles." - excerpt from the Blue Note #37 email newsletter by David Helvarg.
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