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Biofuels were all the rage in the 1990s. Sustainable, activists said, because they refused to do math. It was only when Republicans mandated and subsidized biofuels in 2005 that environmentalists realized there must be something very wrong with them and $10 billion per year of wasted tax dollars on fuels actually worse for the environment than oil are what we have.
If biofuels can make oil companies look good, imagine what they can do for something like tobacco.
Researchers from the Biotechnology Foundation Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University say they have identified a…
Algae: The New Oil
It's renewable, does not affect the food channel and consumes CO2
Oil prices are rising again, and they’re going to continue to do so. We’re already seeing it at the gas pump. The foreign oil and gas we have depended on for generations has turned into a dangerous addiction. The U.S. holds less than 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, and we now import 60 percent of our oil from foreign sources. The point was recently made that, at current rates of supply and demand, by 2030, 50% of the oil supply would come from OPEC nations.
By investing in renewable energy in…
Carbon Credits For Forest Land Considered
Monday, 12/21/09
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ListenMP3PodcastRSSContact UsTapes & Transcripts(Host) Climate change was the big topic in Copenhagen last week.
Congress is also considering a proposal to set limits on carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S.
As part of a collaboration with northeast public radio stations, Rachel Ward of WXXI in Rochester reports on the growing interest in offering carbon credits to polluters in exchange for preserving forest land.
(Ward) Under cap and trade agreements, companies buy and sell permits for every ton of…
The government of China has funded and opened a pipeline going from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang province in China. The pipeline is set to provide, "40 billion cubic meters of gas for 30 years once the line reaches full capacity."
This is interesting as China is building an energy infrastructure that lowers the EU's ability to access gas, by pass Russia, and revive the Silk Road trade routes. This much is stated in the article.
China's building of energy infrastructure in the Central Asian Republics (CARs) that move gas from west to east (CAR to China) and Russia's pipeline…
Often promoted as a 'clean-burning' alternative to gasoline that could help break our oil addiction, ethanol would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, especially in winter, according to research presented today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.
Applying emissions data to the Los Angeles area to model vehicle pollutants, researchers projected emissions for the year 2020, when more ethanol-powered vehicles will likely be in use
They estimated that vehicle emissions would be about 60 percent less than today, because automotive technology will likely continue…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. & BELLINGHAM, Wash. - (Business Wire) The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corporation, headquartered in Bellingham, Washington, are poised to commercialize a novel and groundbreaking cellulosic biofuel technology developed at the EERC at the University of North Dakota. Whole Energy is receiving global, exclusive licensing rights to EERC Foundation’s technology, which converts biomass and other recycled material into liquid biofuels.
Utilizing cellulosic materials to produce biofuels has several advantages. Cellulosic…
Climate summit in turmoil over Danish proposal Buzz Up Share
Copenhagen, Dec 9 (IANS) The Dec 7-18 climate summit was thrown into turmoil on its second evening as developing countries came together to condemn a Danish draft of the final Copenhagen declaration.
The existing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP) place the onus of mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) squarely upon industrialised countries, as almost all the GHG - mostly carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere now has been put there by them.
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Bioenergy requirements in the short to medium term, however, there are uncertainties concerning the availability of all of the above resource for the long term and in few countries some of them are already used completely (e.g. biomass originating from process waste in Germany). In addition, there will come a point where competition with food crops will limit the availability of land for SRF or other energy crops. It is therefore advisable to look into new biomass resources from the extreme deserts of Rajasthan in India, Sahara and middle east. Calotropis procera could be one such potential…
PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND BIOFUELS PRODUCTION: PROBLEMS AND PROSECTS
ASHWANI KUMAR
Energy plantation Demonstration Project Centre,
Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur 302004
msku32@yahoo.com. Phone 0141 2654100.
Abstract
Biomass contributes a significant share of global primary energy consumption and its importance is likely to increase in future world energy scenarios. Current biomass use, although not sustainable in some cases, replaces fossil fuel consumption and results in avoided CO2 emissions, representing about 2.7 to 8.8 % of 1998 anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Improved…