As world food prices escalate and the connection to biofuel generation is made with increasing frequency in the media, there is a growing sense of ‘I told you so’ with regard to the disaster of biofuels. But it isn’t quite that simple.
Yes, food prices are going up at a huge rate. Yes, demand for biofuel [...]
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A taste of things to come
Posted in Climate Change, EU, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Climate Change, Food prices, Global Warming, Gordon Brown on 23 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Support your local wind turbine
Posted in Climate Change, EU, Energy, Renewables, tagged Climate Change, Energy, EU, Renewables, Wind power, Wind turbine on 30 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wind. Great stuff. It blows around here and there (especially around the British Isles) and just waits for someone to come along and make electricity out of it. Brilliant.
But in the recent past we haven’t really been that bothered. Hans-Josef Fell (a German MP who was a driving force behind Germany’s Renewable Energy Sources Law) [...]
Biofuels are not the answer
Posted in Climate Change, EU, Energy, biofuels, tagged biofuels, Carbon dioxide, Climate Change, EU, Global Warming on 23 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently the Environmental Audit Committee group of MPs, led by the Conservative MP Tim Yeo, produced their report ‘Are Biofuels Sustainable?’ in which they tried to find out the answer to the title (1). Their conclusion? That there should be a moratorium on biofuels until “technology improves, robust mechanisms to prevent damaging land use change [...]
