Archive for the 'Biofuel' Category
Major Oil Companies Investments in Biofuels
Posted on November 7, 2009 - Filed Under Biofuel | Leave a Comment
The status quo isn’t a problem for big oil companies, who seem to be constantly breaking their own record profits. However, these corporations know that they must also look to the future and sustain their competitive edge.
The competitive landscape of the future is not clear for the oil industry, with financial, political, and environmental considerations [...]
U.N. Calls for More Sophisticated Biofuels Debate
Posted on October 20, 2009 - Filed Under Biofuel, Renewable Energy | Leave a Comment
Countries must adopt a much more sophisticated approach to developing biofuels as a green energy option if they are to benefit the economy, the environment and society as a whole, the United Nations said.
Biofuels are mostly produced from food crops including wheat, maize, sugar cane and vegetable oils, and advocates have hailed them as an [...]
Biofuels Push Britain Toward Wheat Imports
Posted on October 16, 2009 - Filed Under Biofuel | Leave a Comment
The growth of the biofuels industry in Britain may have the potential to turn the country into a net importer of wheat for the first time in its history, according to the British National Farmers’ Union.
The farm lobby estimates that 13.9 million tonnes of wheat (about 14.5 million United States tons) will be produced in 2009 — [...]
World Biofuel Use Expected to Double by 2015
Posted on October 1, 2009 - Filed Under Biofuel | Leave a Comment
Global biofuel use is expected to increase twofold by 2015 and Brazil will remain the world’s top exporter of biofuel, according to a report released by Hart Energy Consulting.
The U.S. is expected to see the largest increase in biofuel use per country, increasing its current consumption by more than 30 percent, according to data from [...]
US Biofuel Funding Boost
Posted on May 9, 2009 - Filed Under Biofuel, Renewable Energy | Leave a Comment
The US biofuel industry has been given a funding boost and a policy makeover by the US administration, guiding the nation towards a more energy independent and environmentally friendly future, say officials.
Around $1.8 billion (£1.2 billion) will be put towards commercialising biofuels and stimulating research and development of greener second generation biofuels. New biofuel policies have also [...]
Europe Considers Tariff On U.S. Biofuels
Posted on March 5, 2009 - Filed Under Biofuel | Leave a Comment
Let the protectionist games begin. The European Union said that it is considering imposing a tariff on imports of U.S. biofuels entering the continent. Biofuels have grown to a $10 billion industry in the E.U. with U.S. imports representing $1.28 billion annually. Europe, of course, has way more diesel vehicles on the road than the [...]
Time to Get “Smart” on Biofuels
Posted on February 28, 2009 - Filed Under Biofuel, environment | Leave a Comment
The Sierra Club and Worldwatch Institute released a report, Smart Choices for Biofuels, highlighting the need for important policy reforms at this critical juncture in America’s effort to increase the use of biofuels. The report outlines the economic and environmental impacts of first-generation biofuels such as corn ethanol, proposes strategies to make the biofuels industry [...]
Biofuels May Speed Up, Not Slow Global Warming Says Study
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under Biodiesel, Biofuel, Climate, Fossil fuel, Global Warming | Leave a Comment
The use of crop-based biofuels could speed up rather than slow down global warming by fueling the destruction of rainforests, scientists warned Saturday. Once heralded as the answer to oil, biofuels have become increasingly controversial because of their impact on food prices and the amount of energy it takes to produce them.
They could also be [...]
The Western World Needs to Rethink its Rush to Biofuels
Posted on October 7, 2008 - Filed Under Biofuel | 5 Comments
The Western world needs to rethink its rush to biofuels, which has done more harm pushing up food prices than it has good by reducing greenhouse gases, a United Nations report said.The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said policies encouraging biofuel production and use in Europe and the United States was likely to maintain [...]
Biofuels and India
Posted on September 19, 2008 - Filed Under Biofuel, Renewable Energy | Leave a Comment
The slow ripening of India?s biofuel industry
OUTSIDE his village in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, Sudarshan Dhrube inspects a field of jatropha, planted in rust-red soils, heavy with iron. His village is growing the shrub under the watchful eye of D1-BP Fuel Crops, a joint venture between D1 Oils, a British biofuels firm, and BP, [...]
