Goedjn wrote:
If you grow one ton's worth
of carbon bearing corn and DON'T burn it, the net effect
is minus one ton. How much carbon is in the
parts of the corn that you don't burn? How much
carbon is in whatever would be growing there if you
weren't growing fuel-corn?

If you eat the corn, much of the carbon goes back into the atmosphere.
If you bury it and let it rot, it goes back into the atmoshpere...

....Brock.