Weekend Energy Listening: Ethanol’s Energy Balance with Tad Patzek

For a bit of weekend energy listening, here’s a conversation that I had with Tad Patzek (who should need no introduction around here), talking about ethanol’s energy balance. This was recorded 2 years ago now, but it still remains quite timely today. You can listen to the mp3 either by downloading the link or clicking play in the built in audio player.

A long transcript of this conversation is available below the fold.


This discussion is especially relevant in Canada now because of Bill C-33 which amends the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and is supposed to be debated in the House of Commons around May 28th, 2008.

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