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Biofuels: not quite dead yet, thankfully

February 8, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:: biofuels, greenhousegases, land, markettransformation, RFS, searchinger, Tilman

So the questions I've been getting today are do yesterday's Science articles mean that all biofuels are bad and that the recently passed RFS is going to harm the climate? The short answer is no and no. It remains relatively...continued→

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Two Science articles make the risk of bad biofuels clear

February 7, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:: biofuels, greenhousegases, land, markettransformation, RFS, searchinger, Tilman

Two articles appearing today in Science Magazine make the risk of bad biofuels clearer than ever. The first article, "Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt," addresses the direct greenhouse gas emissions from growing biofuel feedstocks on land recently converted...continued→

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