On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 10:09:33 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2021 22:31:30 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:
writes:
On Wed, 26 May 2021 13:48:07 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

There are plenty os studies that question the "green" aspects of E-85
and ethanol in general. Even if you throw out the carbon footprint of
the farmers and distillers you are still left with the water issues
that everyone forgets about. The Ogallala Aquifer that waters all of
that corn is dropping every day and that is fossil water that is not
being replaced nearly as fast as we pump it out. They are trying to
get farmers to change their ways but planting more corn to burn in
cars is not going to help.

Most of that corn is grown in Iowa and Illinois. There is no, zero, zilch
irrigation in either state. They use rainwater. They don't draw
down the aquifer.
While you are in DC at the patent office, locking down that hydrogen
perpetual motion machine, drive down 14th street and see the people at
USDA about that water Iowa isn't using.
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https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics...tion-11-19.pdf

I noticed a couple differences between Iowa and Nebraska irrigation. Check valves, back flow preventers, are standard equipment on Nebraska irrigation wells. Flowmeters are too. Some Iowa well don't have those.
The local natural resources district just got done measuring groundwater levels in the observation wells. The level is
9 feet above the 1978 levels. Mandatory allocation would kick in if the levels get back down to the 1978 levels.