That share is likely to fall as oil prices drop, analysts Energy Intelligence predict,
particularly as biofuels rely on government support, which is waning in some parts of the world.
Not exact matches
Fratus lists
biofuels, solar, wind, and fuel cells
as technologies that are
particularly enticing to investors.
Biofuel Shell is
particularly interested in
biofuels, especially algae,
as is ExxonMobil, which last year invested $ 600 million in Craig Venter's company Synthetic Genomics.
But
as things stand, while there are many people working on next - generation
biofuels that could meet the criteria above, the vast majority of the
biofuels made in the U.S. are not
particularly green.
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As the world's population grows, people will increasingly rely on marginal lands —
particularly drylands — for production of food, wood and
biofuels.
Then there's the hundreds of millions of dollars ExxonMobil has spent both to research and develop carbon capture and sequestration technologies
as well
as to investigate the promise of producing advanced
biofuels,
particularly from algae.
Al Gore is a huge supporter of
biofuels, and
particularly corn - based ethanol,
as a «solution» to global warming.
The debate is
particularly pitched
as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to introduce new rules relating to the
biofuels industry this fall.
The groups are
particularly concerned that large - scale bioenergy and
biofuels, waste incineration, nuclear power and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are referred to
as «low carbon» in mitigation models, despite concerns raised elsewhere that some of those technologies are risky, unproven and could actually make climate change worse.