biofuels
Make your own biofuel (Google)
Today, 10th of July, a search for “make your own biofuel” on Google returns about 466.000 pages. It is amazing!
EU and Brazil join forces over biofuels (The Guardian)
EU leaders are concerned about an ethanol production that meets environmental, labour and social standards, according to this story by The Guardian.
It is a good picture for Brazil and other poor and developing countries in Central America, the Caribbean and Africa, according to President Lula from Brazil. In Brazil thebiofuels allowed a 40% reduction of [...]
L’Union européenne fait marche arrière sur les biocarburants (Le Monde)
Original and Portuguese translation available.
All of a sudden, 27 energy ministers from the EU gathered and decided to re-read the article 3 for the renewable energy plan. As mr Jean-Louis Borloo, the French environment and energy minister, said, “The member states realised that the Commission’s plan specifies that 10 percent of transport needs must come [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
