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Old Dec 20, 2011 | 01:04 AM
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Henry was Green!

Popular Mechanics Dec 1925 page 884. Henry Ford declared that the energy available in an acre of potatos would be sufficient to power machinery cultivating that acre for 100 years.

He also made reference to electricity as "white power" ( as in clean I'm guessing).

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Link will get you to the mag -- click on contents /click on 887 / page backwards to 884

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Soybeans too, then and now.

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He was also ahead of his time with using composite materials for car bodies...

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