hirenj

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   by hirenj 15y ago

   Biofuel researcher here: The nice thing about switchgrass is that it's a much hardier plant, meaning that you can get it to grow on marginal lands, which means land that wouldn't otherwise be used for crops. Getting people to grow anything
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   by hirenj 15y ago

   Bioinformatician here: First of all, I think it's got to be clear that a lone bioinformatician, or even a group of them isn't going to go about changing the world. Essentially, when you sign up for this, you're still a cog in a machine, alb
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   by hirenj 15y ago

   I'm pretty sure the processing step of the biomass they're using for the modelling in this paper is not exactly the most recent. Sadly, our techno-economic modelling guy is out of the country at the moment, so I can't ask him what he thinks
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   by hirenj 16y ago

   So, according to the wiki, HFCS contains about 55% Fructose, 45% Glucose. Regular sucrose is at a 50-50 split. Given your stomach splits sucrose into the respective monosaccharide units anyway, you're going to end up with roughly the same a
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   by hirenj 16y ago

   To nitpick, the article was written for a British audience, by George Monbiot who is a columnist for the Guardian. The SMH (and the whole Fairfax group) don't really write articles any more.