Purity of Research (Score 1)

A simple Google search of the Cornell and Berkley professors involved yields some interesting things. First, that Tad Patzek seems to be a member of the "U.C. OIL CONSORTIUM". You can read the charter here: http://patzek.berkeley.edu/UCOil/charter.html The other guy seems to be more geared toward environmental impact than the efficiency of ethanol production. http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/Faculty_Staff/Pi mentel/pimentel.html Not to suggest that the research is all FUD, but I get itchy when academia thinks that they understand something better just because their not making a direct profit from it. That somehow their outside vantage gives them a better understanding of how things work.