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Biofuels
From onions to electricity
Gills Onions in Southern California forecasts that it will eliminate the equivalent of 30,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by using its onion waste to create biogas and fuel its processing plant.
Waste watermelons could power cars
Scientists may have found a use for the 800 million-odd pounds of watermelon left in US farmers’ fields each year: the fruit could be used to create ethanol for use in cars.
What the GFC can teach us about our intertwined food system
Just like the financial sector, the food system has dramatically globalised over the past generation, even as it has become increasingly concentrated.
Why biofuels are lose-lose for consumers
Even if forcing the market to produce biofuels reduces some emissions, says Ted Gayer, it will increase others.
How much CO2 makes a Manildra biofuel?
A new US biofuel standard may spell trouble for the local industry.
Biofuel from canal algae to power Venice by 2011State of the Planet
Uganda strikes a blow for the forests … Big bucks in green energy … Putting your loo to better use … Greenland, an agricultural paradise? … Action on climate change stalled.
Is the biofuel industry killing African children?
Michael Pascoe’s made many valid critiques of the biofuels industry in Crikey yesterday. However, much of the debate around biofuels by policymakers, climate change activists and commentators overlooks the massive impact escalating biofuel usage in the west is having on the developing world.
Biofuels cure worse than record oil price disease
Serendipity: An OECD report finds biofuels generally cause more trouble than they’re worth just as crude closes on NYMEX at a record high of US$78.23 a barrel – and that’s despite OPEC agreeing to increase production by half a million barrels a day, writes Michael Pascoe.
