Comments on: Video: O.C. 4-H kids dive into biofuels experiment http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/08/video-oc-4-h-kids-dive-into-biofuels-experiment/13969/ All things green in Orange County. Wed, 19 May 2010 22:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: just me http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/08/video-oc-4-h-kids-dive-into-biofuels-experiment/13969/#comment-4871 just me Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:20:07 +0000 http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/?p=13969#comment-4871 To answer your question, OC4Truth, the depth of the lesson really depended on the ages of the children participating. It was certainly not just a push for food crops for fuel. I did this experiment with my 5 year old, and the message that she took with her is that there are MANY alternate fuel sources that can ke explored, (for instance, algae was listed as a possibility), and that we can develop new and cleaner fuel sources that come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels. I thought that 4-H handled this really well. It was set up so that kids of all ages and knowledge levels could could learn that there are cleaner possiblilities available. Hopefully, it also inspired the young generation to develop even better energy sources. To answer your question, OC4Truth, the depth of the lesson really depended on the ages of the children participating. It was certainly not just a push for food crops for fuel. I did this experiment with my 5 year old, and the message that she took with her is that there are MANY alternate fuel sources that can ke explored, (for instance, algae was listed as a possibility), and that we can develop new and cleaner fuel sources that come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels.

I thought that 4-H handled this really well. It was set up so that kids of all ages and knowledge levels could could learn that there are cleaner possiblilities available. Hopefully, it also inspired the young generation to develop even better energy sources.

]]> By: OC4truth http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/08/video-oc-4-h-kids-dive-into-biofuels-experiment/13969/#comment-4841 OC4truth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:45:24 +0000 http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/?p=13969#comment-4841 I hope that the also considered the down side of using food crops for fuel. We do need energy independence and coming up with viable substitutes of various types is good. However in the rush to do that, they have replaced food crops with fuel crops, or have taken food crops and converted them to use as fuel. We haven't felt it so much here, but in other countries that are very dependent on corn, the price has gone up so much that it has really caused hardship among the people. So they need to consider the total impact, not just focus on one thing that is good, but can have very negative consequences. Doing things like using used cooking oils sounds like a good idea--although I don't know how financially feasible it is or how widespread it may be. But any vehicles converted to that, are that many vehicles that aren't using gasoline. I hope that the also considered the down side of using food crops for fuel. We do need energy independence and coming up with viable substitutes of various types is good. However in the rush to do that, they have replaced food crops with fuel crops, or have taken food crops and converted them to use as fuel.

We haven’t felt it so much here, but in other countries that are very dependent on corn, the price has gone up so much that it has really caused hardship among the people.

So they need to consider the total impact, not just focus on one thing that is good, but can have very negative consequences.

Doing things like using used cooking oils sounds like a good idea–although I don’t know how financially feasible it is or how widespread it may be. But any vehicles converted to that, are that many vehicles that aren’t using gasoline.

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