Biuofuels came under attack at a conference in Washington DC over the weekend, as poor nations blame the Western focus on ethanol production for rising food prices that are causing riots and political instability in some parts of the...
Category - Biofuel
The New York Times has an opinion article by Paul Krugman that paints a terrifying picture of the global food crisis in relation to energy and climate change. Krugman says that over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic...
Some encouraging news from the biofuel front was released by a Vancouver, Canada enterprise. Syntec Biofuel, a company developing biomass to fuel conversion technologies, announced that it has achieved a yield of 105 gallons of alcohol (ethanol...
Another bad week for biofuels. According to two new studies being published by Science magazine this Thursday, biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of producing these...
The controversy surrounding the use of biofuels (fuels derived from vegetable crops) gained extra ammunition last week when a report produced by British Members of Parliament (MPs) concluded that biofuels can ‘do more harm than good’ to...
