Untitled Document With hungry, angry people taking to the streets in countries on every continent — from Morocco to Mexico and Pakistan to the Philippines and at least 20 other nations — the biofuel debate is clearly moving into new territory. Arguments for and against using crops to make fuel are no longer focusing on […]
Stan Cox
Stan Cox is a plant breeder and senior scientist at the Land Institute, in Salina, Kan.
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The folly of turning water into fuel
Untitled Document With corn selling at record-high prices, Steve Albracht expects to have no trouble paying his electric bills this year. Albracht irrigates 1,000 acres of corn near the town of Hart in the Texas Panhandle and figures that he will shell out $180 to $240 per acre to run his pumps through the spring […]
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Hot Flash
When it’s hot and humid out and the air conditioner’s not running, America suffers. Babies break out in rashes, couples bicker, and computers go haywire. In much of the nation, an August power outage is viewed not as an inconvenience but as a public-health emergency. In the 50 years since air conditioning hit the mass […]
