Could Russia become a biofuel superpower?
This is a bit of a long shot but reading this report in the UK’s Daily Telegraph about Russia using big a good harvest as a foreign policy tool, got me thinking about the possibility of it becoming a...
View ArticleICIS bioresources summit
ICIS (the people that I work for: About ICIS) will be holding the 2nd ICIS Bioresources Summit, in Hardwick Hall, County Durham, UK on November 25. The conference will discuss the advances in...
View ArticleListen to Barak Obama’s take on biofuels
You can hear Barak Obama talking about biofuels on Good fuels.
View ArticleBill Clinton’s ideas for agriculture
Bill Clinton, ex US president, was speaking at world food day recently. He said: “We should go back to a policy of maximum agriculturalself-sufficiency,” Clinton said. While there would always be a...
View ArticleUK buries biomass will miss target
The UK is not doing enough to turn waste biomass into fuel, says the Guardian. Key passage:“Of an estimated 7.5m tonnes of domestic wood waste, much fromconstruction and demolition, some 80% goes to...
View ArticleCan the EU square ethics with trade, should it even try in biofuels?
Can the EU square its desire to import only biofuels that conform to high ethical standards with the needs of free trade? That might sound like the kind of question we’d be covering in an ethics course...
View ArticleEuropean Bioethanol industry welcomes EU 20% by 2020 plan
The European Bioethanol industry body has welcomed the EU’s plan to ensure that 20% of its energy comes from renewable sources by 2020, according to ICIS news.(Disclosure: I work for ICIS. About...
View ArticleU.S. Biofuels : Near-term challenges and prospects
This is a guest post from Pradeep Indrakanti a regular contributor to this blog and author of the Energy Engineering Blog. Introduction: Recent high crude oil prices reaching 140 $/barrel and federal...
View ArticleObama wants to double renewables production
Over on Greentech media, there’s a piece about Obama wanting to double renewable energy production and make public buildings more energy efficient, create three million new jobs. Through his Recovery...
View ArticleTimes twigs that biofuel policies have environmental impacts too
This article in the Sunday edition of the Times understands that there are environmental costs to biofuel policies.
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