WIND IN THE CORN

Corn crops, thankfully, have proven to be flops as renewable energy sources. Now maybe we can get the cost of food under control again. However, according to Harper’s Index, a quarter acre of Iowa farmland can earn $300 a year for corn, but that same plot can earn $10,000 if the farmer erects a single wind generator. And, if he so desires, he can still raise most of a corn crop!

While he’s at it, he can probably plow his field with an electric tractor conversion (which he recharges at his own wind machine) using new fangled, more efficient batteries. There are an estimated 10,000 different chemicals, most safer than those we currently use, which would make a more efficient battery. So far, 1700 of these ideas have been ‘virtually tested’ with computer models.