Admittedly last week's
post on their biofuels
Andy, you have given many openings for topics other than climate change and today's
post on biofuels and yesterday's on earthquakes and schools certainly gets off the main thread.
Not exact matches
For a great overview of both sides of the argument (framed around the
biofuels industry), I recommend you look at two Green Inc.
posts framing the debate, one today
on the industry point of view that intensified agriculture can cut land use, and one from last week
on the opposing view.
For more details
on why
biofuels are not a good way to harvest the sun's energy, check out this
post, which explains the math from Nobel - Winning photosynthesis expert Hartmut Michel.
Cross
posted by Katharine Sanderson
on The Great Beyond Two papers in Science yesterday have poured cold water
on the promise of second generation
biofuels.
As we've argued at length in several past
posts, most
biofuel schemes would have a devastating impact
on developing, food - importing countries:
He has prepared a great summary of
posts and articles from around the world showing both sides of the ledger -» Enough already - the facts» side against
biofuels and the «Determined Obstinacy - We drive, come hell or high water» side, an attempt to draw «a clear line between the effects of
biofuels on people and planet, and what government and industry are doing regardless.»
The airline's next step is to run a test flight using fuel from jatropha oil in the latter half of this year (see also our previous
post on jatropha for
biofuels).
This
post is Part 1 of a 2 - part series
on biofuels.
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