Duckweed Ethanol
Duckweed Biomass Grown from Organic Wastes to Replace Corn for US and International Ethanol Biofuel Production
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The smallest flowering plant, on Earth, is one of the most powerful, and widespread: duckweed. Usually, considered a nuisance, duckweed, upon close examination, is an impressive crop, in photosynthetic value. Ethanol, an industry dominated by the Corn Industry (King Corn), faces many challenges, including large water draws, rising fertilizer costs, large diesel fuel bills, and unintended impacts on Food markets. Corn, as a choice for ethanol production, pits food, versus fuel, for agricultural resources, increasing stresses between fundamental markets. An ideal source of biomass, for ethanol production, would not be a food crop, rather, a waste-crop. King Corn, dominates current domestic ethanol production markets, worth billions, each year. Supported with Federal Farm Subsidies, worth billions of dollars annually, the corn industry dictates the US ethanol markets, using Corn as the principle feedstock crop. At first glance, Corn, is an odd choice for ethanol production. Corn, began as a wild seed crop, domesticated by ancient man. Before the modern age, thousands of years of selective breeding, produced a Corn rich in proteins, and high in nutritional value. Modern Corn, has been engineered to go "the other direction," and reduce Corn's Protein, and increase Corn's Starch (Carbohydrate) production. The "Starch" in corn, is used for Ethanol production, and other by-products, such as Corn Syrup, and Distillers Dried Grains and Solubles (DDGS). Duckweed, is a choice for bulk biomass, which offers significant advantages over corn. Duckweed advantages include, lower energy costs, lower water resources, lower fertilizer costs, doesn't require valuable farmland, doesn't compete in Food markets, has higher Starch yield, per acre. Duckweed, in a controlled environment, can be grown, year round, and in diverse locations.
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- De C. Hoogeboom en 05-19-18
De: Vaclav Smil
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- De: Bill Gates
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,624
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,895
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,862
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Be curious, not furious
- De Axel Merk en 02-20-21
De: Bill Gates
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Teaming with Nutrients
- The Organic Gardener's Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
- De: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
- Narrado por: Chris Lutkin
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 103
Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed but know little to nothing about the nature of the nutrients involved or how they get into plants. Teaming with Nutrients explains how nutrients move into plants and what both macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients do once inside. It shows organic gardeners how to provide these essentials.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wow, narrator can't even pronounce nucleus.
- De Jerry Bradley en 06-25-20
De: Jeff Lowenfels, y otros
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Organic Manifesto
- How Organic Food Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe
- De: Maria Rodale, Eric Scholsser - foreword
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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those in power must read and work upon it.
- De Jaktip en 12-20-17
De: Maria Rodale, y otros
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Climate Change
- What Everyone Needs to Know
- De: Joseph Romm
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Religious not scientific claims and preachings
- De Jeanne Renzo en 09-19-19
De: Joseph Romm
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Beer
- Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing
- De: Charles Bamforth
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Beer offers an amusing and informative account of the art and science of brewing, examining the history of brewing, and how the brewing process has evolved through the ages. The third edition features more information concerning the history of beer, especially in the United States; British, Japanese, and Egyptian beer; beer in the context of health and nutrition; and the various styles of beer. Author Charles Bamforth has also added detailed information on prohibition, Sierra Nevada, and life as a maltster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Commercial Brewing
- De taylor brackeen en 03-15-18
De: Charles Bamforth
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- De: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- De Love owls en 07-09-13
De: William McDonough, y otros
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Growth
- From Microorganisms to Megacities
- De: Vaclav Smil
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 26 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations.
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3 out of 5 stars
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PDF should come with this book...
- De Sebastian en 04-22-20
De: Vaclav Smil
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A Revolution Down on the Farm
- The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
- De: Paul K. Conkin
- Narrado por: Kevin Pierce
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 99
Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a population four times larger than it was at the beginning of the century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent review of farming history in US
- De Joanne en 01-26-14
De: Paul K. Conkin
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The Knowledge
- How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
- De: Lewis Dartnell
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 446
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 441
Regarded as one of the brightest young scientists of his generation, Lewis Dartnell proposes that the key to preserving civilization in an apocalyptic scenario is to provide a quickstart guide, adapted to cataclysmic circumstances. The Knowledge describes many of the modern technologies we employ, but first it explains the fundamentals upon which they are built. The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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We might be screwed, but... science!
- De Ryan en 11-28-15
De: Lewis Dartnell
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Animal, Vegetable, Junk
- A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
- De: Mark Bittman
- Narrado por: Mark Bittman
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
The story of humankind is usually told as one of technological innovation and economic influence—of arrowheads and atomic bombs, settlers and stock markets. But behind it all, there is an even more fundamental driver: Food. In Animal, Vegetable, Junk, trusted food authority Mark Bittman offers a panoramic view of how the frenzy for food has driven human history to some of its most catastrophic moments.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Junk
- De Daniel Ducat en 05-22-21
De: Mark Bittman
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Meatonomics
- How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much—and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter
- De: David Robinson Simon
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 133
Few consumers are aware of the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect us in many ways. Most importantly, we've lost the ability to decide for ourselves what - and how much - to eat. Those decisions are made for us by animal food producers who control our buying choices with artificially-low prices, misleading messaging, and heavy control over legislation and regulation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- De DIY manAmazon Customer en 02-14-16
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
- De: Alex Epstein
- Narrado por: Alex Epstein
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,712
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,518
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,517
For decades environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We're taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not their positives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A different point of view
- De Ballofyarn en 01-12-17
De: Alex Epstein
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Apocalypse Never
- Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
- De: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,013
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,592
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,582
Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed "billions of people are going to die", contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Environmentalist with integrity!
- De Wayne en 07-01-20
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Coffee
- A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry
- De: Robert W. Thurston, Jonathan Morris, Shawn Steiman
- Narrado por: Dan Kassis
- Duración: 18 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Leading experts from business and academia consider coffee's history, global spread, cultivation, preparation, marketing, and the environmental and social issues surrounding it today. They discuss, for example, the impact of globalization; the many definitions of organic, direct trade, and fair trade; the health of female farmers; the relationships among shade, birds, and coffee; roasting as an art and a science; and where profits are made in the commodity chain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything you need to know about coffee
- De FW1978 en 11-03-18
De: Robert W. Thurston, y otros
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Slime
- How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
- De: Ruth Kassinger
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
In Slime we'll meet the algae innovators working toward a sustainable future: from seaweed farmers in South Korea, to scientists using it to clean the dead zones in our waterways, to the entrepreneurs fighting to bring algae fuel and plastics to market. Ruth Kassinger takes listeners on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes, and into-the-kitchen tour. Whether you thought algae was just the gunk in your fish tank or you eat seaweed with your oatmeal, Slime will delight and amaze with its stories of the good, the bad, and the up-and-coming.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fairly entertaining and informative...but
- De Timothy en 08-27-19
De: Ruth Kassinger
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The Nature of Nature
- Why We Need the Wild
- De: Enric Sala
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 61
In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Lars Pardo en 11-21-24
De: Enric Sala