Sentences with phrase «compete with food production»

But the increased use of agricultural lands for growing energy crops may compete with food production, causing increased food prices and deforestation.

However, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) hopes to begin certifying environmentally friendly biofuels that don't compete with food production or water sources.

EU law makers ruled that biofuels can compete with food production, contribute to climate change, and put pressure on land use — and so have set a limit on the quantity of biofuels that can be used to meet EU energy targets (at no more than 7 % of transport energy).

• Oppose cellulosic biofuels because they are inefficient, and will compete with food production and lead to further land use pressures.

These fuels produced from atmospheric CO2 are carbon - neutral and do not compete with food production for agricultural crop land.

They can also grow on marginal lands with less fertilizer and water, making it less likely they will compete with food production.

«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

Using crops or land for biofuels competes with food production, making this goal even more difficult.

However the limit would still expand the use of food crops for fuel and would not end biofuels competing with food production.

4) Cancel subsidies and tax benefits for biofuels because corn competes with food production in temperate zones and palm trees reduce jungle habitat in the tropics.

Not exact matches

Second generation biofuels, he added, offered a better solution as they don't compete for water and land with food production systems.

The ability to ferment xylose can be a path to biofuel production that does not compete with the food supply.

However, the ability to ferment xylose could lead to biofuel production that does not compete with the food supply.

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The cost of one C02 free coal plant is likely to be many times that of a magma heat mining pilot plant and we wouldn't need to see food production compete with energy production.

They're also encountering significant logistical challenges and concerns about the degree to which their production competes with food.

Jatropha curcas, for instance, is a plant that grows well on marginal lands and can also be used to restore degraded lands, suggesting that Jatropha production, if carefully managed, may be expanded without directly competing with natural forests or high - value agriculture lands used for food production.

Furthermore, although it would be impressive to see an allotment produce 876 kg of food, even at 31.28 tonnes per hectare, given the average yields for UK production in the FAO database are 20 tonnes for vegetables, 13 tonnes for fruit, 40 tonnes for roots & tubers, the allotment holder seems not to compete with his industrial farming counterpart on productivity or cost.

Roughly, about 400 exajoules of bioenergy can be put into production without heroic measures and without competing with the production of food and animal feeds.