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The conflict of growing crops for biomass or food.
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<blockquote data-quote="Jonny B88" data-source="post: 8151312" data-attributes="member: 10679"><p>As said the crop grown could be used for food production or other commodity production, so you would lose out on that utilisation first of all as opposed to using an actual waste product of another process.</p><p></p><p>The fossil fuel used to produce said product is a form of energy. I have no connection to a digester or their systems but i would imagine a large proportion of the crops grown for digesters will use synthetic nitrogen of some sort. That is a form of energy.</p><p></p><p>I am sure there is a massive difference in the ability of land to sequester carbon depending upon the management of that land. Land that has been intensively cropped to the extent of losing OM willnot sequester anywhere near the same as long term well managed pasture with decent periods of rest to allow to grow and allow roots and micro organisms to form their symbiotic processes. In fact land losing OM is by definition not sequestering but leaching.</p><p></p><p>Sorry what do you mean by loss to the sewerage system by farm food systems?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonny B88, post: 8151312, member: 10679"] As said the crop grown could be used for food production or other commodity production, so you would lose out on that utilisation first of all as opposed to using an actual waste product of another process. The fossil fuel used to produce said product is a form of energy. I have no connection to a digester or their systems but i would imagine a large proportion of the crops grown for digesters will use synthetic nitrogen of some sort. That is a form of energy. I am sure there is a massive difference in the ability of land to sequester carbon depending upon the management of that land. Land that has been intensively cropped to the extent of losing OM willnot sequester anywhere near the same as long term well managed pasture with decent periods of rest to allow to grow and allow roots and micro organisms to form their symbiotic processes. In fact land losing OM is by definition not sequestering but leaching. Sorry what do you mean by loss to the sewerage system by farm food systems? [/QUOTE]
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