Not exact matches
In the future we hope to apply the
approach more widely to consider
other energy carriers such as
biofuels.»
A key focus of the Center, which collaborates with
other labs, including the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is to design new biologically based
approaches to
biofuel production.
This is the new face of the old threat — that new land - based mitigation techniques, such as biochar, bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and
other types of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) geoengineering
approaches, as well as old «solutions» like
biofuels, will compete with the use of land to feed people.
In Cancún, the imperative of including agriculture and
biofuels; or to decide on a blueprint for mitigation of emissions caused by bunker fuels; or to define system - wide, large - scale levers for market - based action on mitigation and adaptation; or, establish new
approaches that differentiate and foster innovation for climate from technological drivers in
other areas and in the past, were all avoided.
IMHO a better
approach to
biofuel would be a crop that can be grown without irrigation in wasteland such as the playas of the desert southwest and that yields an oil that does not require distillation or
other energy intensive processing.
Sugarcane - based
biofuel, an
approach favored by
other big
biofuel producers like Brazil, offers greater energy efficiency and is made with a crop that can be grown in unused lands in many tropical countries, contributing to their development, he told reporters.