Papers
Drivers of Food Price Increases: Is it fair to blame biofuels? (New Energy Finance)
Again, the food vs. fuel debate. I consider this as a very important issue, since the poor suffer a lot more even from slight changes on food prices.
“Drivers of Food Price Increases: Is it fair to blame biofuels?” (from New Energy Finance) is a study to which I haven’t had full access. However, after reading [...]
It’s Corn vs. Soybeans in a Biofuels Debate (NY Times)
Original article here.
The study cited on this story affirms that the fuel vs. food debate is something we should be concerned about. Indeed, as we previously saw here, most of the current generation of biofuels under production in the US is based on transforming corn grain in ethanol, or soybean in biodiesel. Always good to [...]
Getting Serious About Biofuels (Science)
The author, Steven Koonin, points out several important issues for developing the biofuels and making them a globally viable solution to the energy issue. (As he well observes at the footnote, “Brazil is a singular counterexample, where favorable agricultural conditions and a flexible processing infrastructure allow the majority of the country’s road transport to be [...]
Azúcar en el depósito (La Vanguardia)
Spanish original here (title: “Sugar in the deposit”); Portuguese translation here (title: Sugarcane and ethanol are becoming Brazil’s symbols”).
El país del carnaval, la samba, el fútbol, el café y la caipiriña tiene ya otro emblema por bandera: la caña de azúcar. Aunque los portugueses introdujeron este cultivo en el país hace ya más de 500 [...]
