The Oil Drum | Updated Corn Ethanol Economics
This by Ropbert Rapier, who is generally pretty sharp, and helpful in trying to understand what the heck is happening in the ethanol market
NetNow Linkblog: What we're reading today at NRDC
Nathanael Greene's Links Tagged "biofuels"
Yale Environment 360: Program To Help Small Farmers Triples Corn Harvest in Kenyan Community
The CSM article mentioned here shows that on a global scale, food is not supply limited, but that doesn't mean reductions in supply due to today's biofuels don't cause price increase and land-use change. They do until we fix the system.
Yale Environment 360: Global Commodities Boom Fuels New Assault on Amazon
The economics of supply and demand are impossible to deny. As a result we need to regulate biofuels so that their feedstocks don't drive these impacts.
Science/AAAS | Table of Contents: 13 June 2008; 320 (5882)
This issue of Science is full of articles on forestry. Critical reading for anyone wondering about using woody biomass for energy
Biopact: Louisiana signs "non-corn" ethanol bill into law
This looks interesting. While I like the requirement to provide improvements across the board, there should also be incentives for improvement above the standards.
Green Car Congress: Study Concludes That Reducing US Transportation Oil Consumption and GHG Will Require a Package of Policies
Couldn't agree more with the headline and the study apparently points out that renewable fuel policies need to look at the lifecycle GHG emissions.
Kudzu: Potential Biofuel? : Discovery News : Discovery Channel
Having personally spent time ripping kudzu out of trees and bushes, I like the idea doing anything that would beat this plant back, but this treads close to the line of promoting invasive species to make biofuel, which we simply shouldn't do.
Climate Solutions: Taking Aloft With Sustainable Biojet
Patrick Mazza continues with useful and insightful coverage of biofuels issues.
RSB Current Debate on Land Use - BioenergyWiki
This is a great resource with links to much of the current back and forth on GHG emissions from indirect land use change from biofuels.
Better biofuels before more biofuels by Dr. Alex Farrell
This is a very thoughtful op-ed by one of the preminent thinkers about low carbon fuels and policies to advance them.
Reliable Way to Search The Internet: The Price of Biofuels
This post covers LS9 and Amyris, two of companies that developing new biofuel molecules, different from ethanol and biodiesel. As I mentioned in my New Year's post expect to see a lot of action on this front in the year a head.
The Invisible Green Hand: Making ethanol production cheaper and less carbon-intensive
As usual, Cai Steger stiches things together in a helpful way. This time talking about the importance of CHP to reducing the cost and GHG emissions from ethanol production.
Cellulosic Ethanol - Company Claims Breakthrough in Cellulosic Ethanol - thedailygreen.com
Gulf Ethanol claims to have developed something called a "vortex implosion disintegrator," that turns biomass into cellulose powder. What happens to the other parts of the biomass? Not clear. However, pre-processing is one of the important challenges to c
Alex Farrell on the low carbon fuel standard
Don't know how I missed this when it first aired on Oct 17, but this is well worth a watch.
Corn Guy TV
Entertaining and a little educational. Worth a watch.
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