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Powering cars with corn and burning wood to make electricity might seem like a way to lessen dependence on fossil fuels and help solve the climate crisis.
They raise rice, cassava, and corn (maize) by burning off the natural vegetation and planting in the ash-enriched soil.
People who care about global poverty protest that burning corn in cars raises the price of food for everyone else (though a newer method that involves turning inedible corn stalks into fuel is less harmful).Mr Branstad is undaunted.
On Monday, the city dispatched environmental protection personnel to conduct inspections of factory smokestacks, traffic police to perform spot checks of motor vehicle emissions, and village officials to stop farmers from burning corn waste.
BEIJING — Train C2019 covers the 120 kilometers between Beijing and Tianjin in 30 minutes, passing peasants in fields burning corn stalks and warrens of shacks occupied by people who are not sharing in China's economic boom.
The CBO reports that it costs a staggering $750 to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions one ton by burning corn ethanol - and the CBO makes some generous assumptions to get even that figure.
The city weather bureau blamed the pollution on three factors: a lack of wind; local farms burning corn leaves and stalks after the harvest; and the start of the municipal central heating system, which provides heat to millions of homes and offices and relies on large coal-burning boilers across the city.
Besides the greenhouse gas emissions associated with primary fossil energy use embodied in all the energy and material flows into corn ethanol processes, the increased greenhouse gas emissions due to soil tilling and erosion, methane emissions from burning corn stalk and the wastewater are carefully estimated.
The treatments consisted of irrigated corn planted, after burning wheat residues followed by conventional tillage (CT), after residue removal followed by CT, after soil incorporation of 0, 250 50, 75, and 100% of residue followed by chisel plow, disk harrow, and row crop planter equipped with row cleaner.
Smoke from a pile of burning corn cobs and garbage 40 feet away wafts through the crowd, making some cough.
