Biofuels – Apr 7
The Economist agrees with Castro on ethanol
City on fire: biodiesel in Thailand
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
Renewable Energy
Wearing my hair shirt
With all the attention on the great challenges and sacrifices ahead, I feel it incumbent to serve as an ambassador for the American low-energy lifestyle. It’s really not so bad, folks.
Australia already on the ‘downside’ of Peak Oil
Australia has already peaked as an oil producer, professor John Mathews said today, and Australian companies are missing out on important business opportunities in renewable energies and biofuels.
Palm biodiesel – Apr 4
Palm oil failing as biofuel
Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel
The biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
Biofuels – Apr 4
Foreign Affairs: Biofuels could starve the poor
Castro: US to starve world
Monsanto 2Q profit boosted by corn sales
Fertilizer shortage this spring due to ethanol
What are our alternatives, if fossil fuels are a problem?
Answers questions like “I love my SUV. Why can’t we continue to use oil and gas as in the past?” and “Won’t ethanol cover our fossil fuel shortfall?”. Good educational material.
Biofuels – March 30
Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel
Heritage Foundation: The ethanol mandate should not be expanded
Via Campesina’s position on agro-fuels
Renewables – March 30
Energy activists snipe at rivals
Tom Whipple on wind power
Hydro’s uphill battle
The hydrogen economy – energy and economic black hole
Biofuels – March 30 (2)
Corn is not the future of U.S. ethanol: DOE
Brazil’s da Silva: Our biofuels partnership
UK slams US biofuel subsidies
Huge jump in corn planting expected
Ethanol fuels jumps in Nebraska agricultural land values
Biofuels – Mar 28
Chinese biofuels expansion threatens ecological balance
Thailand looks to deadly nuts for biofuel
Ethanol boom a bust for ranchers
Brazil, Italy seek partnership on biofuel production
Biofuels – March 27
Economist: Biofuel may raise food prices
Farmers: future is not now for biomass ethanol
Energy companies rethink palm oil
Five years to save the orang utan
Monbiot: To save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels
Faustus and the monkey trap
What makes the crisis of industrial society so challenging to cope with is the way it unfolds out of the very strategies that worked so well in other contexts. Current attempts to replace oil with ethanol — in effect, pouring our food supply into our gas tanks — point to an urgent need to reconsider some of our most basic assumptions about what exactly the problem is.
