manure makes a good supplemental fertilizer. Rotating between corn and soybeans also does a great deal to help reduce the amount of fertilizer required.
Both of those methods add nitrogen to the soil. As near as I've seen, the bulk of the fertilizer applied to corn fields is anhydrous ammonia - nitrogen.
The production of anhydrous ammonia is where a great deal of fossil fuels (natural gas, I think?) is expended.
Biodiesel makes sense so long as it's made out of waste products - specificly growing Canola for it is burning oil to make fertilizer to make biodiesel and is a losing prospect.
Corn -> Ethanol + distillers grain
distillers grain fed to animals -> "fertilizer" + meat
You could fit four of my hometowns into your hometown:)
Iowa has spent the last 20 years exporting college graduates to the rest of the country. If there are good jobs available in the state, we should be able to keep at least a few of them at home.
Damn - an even smaller town than I hail from. Just out of curiosity - is that 90 acres of farmland? Around here housing is eminently reasonable, but 90 acres of farmland would not be!
They do not provide evidence required by the law. I've been repeatedly demanded to shut off a subscriber, name the subscriber and provide contact information (name, billing address, phone, and other items that would clearly violate Gramm Leach Bliley if there wasn't legal grounds for giving it out)
Transactions of more than $10,000 must be reported (see the Bank Secrecy Act, I believe)
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Deductions add up quickly if you're in a high tax bracket.
For now.
If you're in too high of a tax bracket, you'll get nabbed by the Alternative Minimum Tax which makes your deductions disappear in a puff of smoke.
The nice thing about the AMT is that it was created in the 1970's, but never indexed to inflation - as time goes on, more and more people get caught by it.
Maybe a better source PETA & the ALF on CNN!
PETA apparently funds the Animal Liberation Front - an outfit that does fit the definition of a terrorist group.
And a quote from September, 2001: "Money is the life-blood of terrorist operations"
Did you report this to the police? That was theft at the minimum. In Iowa, that would have fallen under an Identity Theft statute for prosecution.
The bank you dealt with was following Reg E and was doing what was proper. If you didn't find out for 90 days from the first such item, you might have even been out that first amount because you didn't report it back to the bank soon enough.
It is your responsibility as the customer to review your statement and make sure that there is no fraudulent or unauthorized activity.
I actually knew a guy who graduated with CprE and EE in three years, but he was taking 19 or 20 hours a semester the whole time. He did most of his sleeping on the weekend.
I would be zipping along with a nice amount of acceleration and when it hit 120 my engine would turn into a massive brake.
Our current ambulance is governed at about 105. Tested that during a hot run - was going along nicely until I reached that point and the acceleration just plain stopped.
The entire crop isn't used for ethanol production - there is a sizeable portion of what's left that is called distillers grains. These are a high-protein animal feed that is as good or better than "straight corn" for feeding animals.
Not sure about those guys, but often when you see these studies, those doing the study neglect the fact that there are useful byproducts of ethanol production that do help its return on energy investment.
BTW - a substantial portion of the fertilizer energy cost is in the production of anhydrous ammonia - a particularly nasty, but necessary, fertilizer that fixes nitrogen in the soil. I did read recently that there are studies afoot to produce that by using crop residue instead of natural gas - that will also help with the return on energy.
Lastly - some of the energy investment of the corn (or soybean or rapeseed if tlaking biodeisel) crop should probably be discounted - those crops are grown and transported anyway. At this point, it's probably ok just to count the differential for converting the crop to fuel against it.
Proper crop rotation and the utilization of GPS fertilizer application can and do help with fertilization requirements - as well as the skillful use of "processed animal feed".
I was just saying that soybean production requires more passes over the land per season than corn production.
2.6 gallons of ethanol are produced from 1 bushel of corn. If you figure the average car gets 20mpg with gasoline, and then knock off a bit for the lower energy density of ethanol - figure you need 700 gallons or so of ethanol to get you your 10,000 miles.
That implies you need about 270 bushels of corn to produce the fuel for your vehicle for a year.
On a decent year, corn yields about 250 bushels per acre.
Most corn is not raised for direct human consumption - much if it is fed to animals. Diverting corn to ethanol production leaves a product called distillers grain which is a very high quality animal feed - even better than corn. Distillers Grain info
Not much. Biodiesel is made from soybeans, or rapeseed, both of which have relatively light fertilizer requirements.
Not sure about rapeseed, but soybeans require fairly heavy herbicide treatments to get good crops. And with Asian rust coming to the states, fungicide as well!
I think that corn is a less energy intensive crop to produce per bushel than soybeans. 1 acre on a good year (like this year!) will yield about 55 bushels of beans. That same acre on a good year (like this year!) will yield about 250 bushels of corn.
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Both of those methods add nitrogen to the soil. As near as I've seen, the bulk of the fertilizer applied to corn fields is anhydrous ammonia - nitrogen.
The production of anhydrous ammonia is where a great deal of fossil fuels (natural gas, I think?) is expended.
Corn -> Ethanol + distillers grain
distillers grain fed to animals -> "fertilizer" + meat
"Fertilizer" + corn ground -> more corn
Iowa has spent the last 20 years exporting college graduates to the rest of the country. If there are good jobs available in the state, we should be able to keep at least a few of them at home.
That makes more sense then. 90 acres of bare (but good) farmland would run a cool quarer million or better.
Damn - an even smaller town than I hail from. Just out of curiosity - is that 90 acres of farmland? Around here housing is eminently reasonable, but 90 acres of farmland would not be!
Wasn't it a 3 hour tour?
And for those who don't live in the midwest :)
So he's right that no one will buy it!
Are ISP's covered by Gramm-Leach-Bliley?
Transactions of more than $10,000 must be reported (see the Bank Secrecy Act, I believe)
For now.
If you're in too high of a tax bracket, you'll get nabbed by the Alternative Minimum Tax which makes your deductions disappear in a puff of smoke.
The nice thing about the AMT is that it was created in the 1970's, but never indexed to inflation - as time goes on, more and more people get caught by it.
Yes - it has nothing to do with him being a publicity seeking politician.
Maybe a better source PETA & the ALF on CNN! PETA apparently funds the Animal Liberation Front - an outfit that does fit the definition of a terrorist group.
And a quote from September, 2001: "Money is the life-blood of terrorist operations"
That's still rather large, or a hugely overstaffed small town :) (Unless you're counting the fire department in the volunteers).
Graphics were not in the kernel in NT 3.51. NT 4.0 added graphics to the kernel which added instability.
Moneyorders are fine - IF you wait for them to clear before sending out an item and IF you never promise "cash back" on one (that's the big $ scam).
The bank you dealt with was following Reg E and was doing what was proper. If you didn't find out for 90 days from the first such item, you might have even been out that first amount because you didn't report it back to the bank soon enough.
It is your responsibility as the customer to review your statement and make sure that there is no fraudulent or unauthorized activity.
Which weekend?
Our current ambulance is governed at about 105. Tested that during a hot run - was going along nicely until I reached that point and the acceleration just plain stopped.
Not sure about those guys, but often when you see these studies, those doing the study neglect the fact that there are useful byproducts of ethanol production that do help its return on energy investment.
BTW - a substantial portion of the fertilizer energy cost is in the production of anhydrous ammonia - a particularly nasty, but necessary, fertilizer that fixes nitrogen in the soil. I did read recently that there are studies afoot to produce that by using crop residue instead of natural gas - that will also help with the return on energy.
Lastly - some of the energy investment of the corn (or soybean or rapeseed if tlaking biodeisel) crop should probably be discounted - those crops are grown and transported anyway. At this point, it's probably ok just to count the differential for converting the crop to fuel against it.
I was just saying that soybean production requires more passes over the land per season than corn production.
That implies you need about 270 bushels of corn to produce the fuel for your vehicle for a year.
On a decent year, corn yields about 250 bushels per acre.
Most corn is not raised for direct human consumption - much if it is fed to animals. Diverting corn to ethanol production leaves a product called distillers grain which is a very high quality animal feed - even better than corn. Distillers Grain info
Not sure about rapeseed, but soybeans require fairly heavy herbicide treatments to get good crops. And with Asian rust coming to the states, fungicide as well!
I think that corn is a less energy intensive crop to produce per bushel than soybeans. 1 acre on a good year (like this year!) will yield about 55 bushels of beans. That same acre on a good year (like this year!) will yield about 250 bushels of corn.
If there's no speed limit (montana speed limits), is it really speeding?