If you're tired of the "two legs good, four legs bad" type switcheroos the press keeps pulling with biofuels, here's a well-balanced article.
(That was an Animal Farm reference, by the way. George Orwell.)
To bio or not to bio - are 'green' fuels really good for the earth?
The EU says we need them, some experts say they damage the planet. Who is right?
David Adam, environment correspondent
The Guardian,
Saturday January 26 2008
From the top of the Greenergy refinery in Immingham you can see across the Humber estuary to Hull. A hum of equipment fills the air, along with a curious smell. Popcorn.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
1 comment:
I'm sorry to have to say that the number of spam comment postings has required that we turn off anonymous comment posting. There's been a massive boom in what seems like computer-automated spam comments with links to web pages that advertise cheap, nasty, bad-for-you products, mostly cigarettes.
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Interesting article, Mick. I agree that the press coverage of biofuels is oversimplifying and often misleading. Here's another article to complement yours, this one coauthored by David Tilman, a leading ecologist at the U. of Minnesota. It gives an overview of the energy budgets, environmental and ecological effects of producing ethanol from corn and biodiesel from vegetable oils.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301625.html
I would like to see some of the 'boosters' of biofuels in business and politics acknowledge and respond to these scientific findings. The differences between sustainability and economic/political expediency would become clearer to the public.