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Biofuels are not sustainable or renewable. Why would we destroy our topsoil, increase global warming, deplete and pollute groundwater, destroy fisheries, and use more energy than what’s gained to make ethanol?
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Thermal depolymerization: the next big thing
US releases National Renewable Fuel Standard
Sustainable energy has powerful future
Tom Whipple: Decentralized Power
Geodynamics says it has ‘hottest rocks on earth’
Rep. Jay Inslee, clean-energy champion
Gingrich goes green in Kerry climate debate
EPA: full speed ahead with ethanol
Calif governor likes LNG despite panel vote
Schwarzenegger exports his brand of ‘green’
Britain’s green revolution on the home front
Edible City: Part 2
The fruited plain: corn boom-and-bust
The Economist agrees with Castro on ethanol
City on fire: biodiesel in Thailand
What is the real cost of corn ethanol?
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 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.
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
Palm oil failing as biofuel
Palm oil is not a failure as a biofuel
The biofuel of the future driving an ecological disaster now
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.
Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel
Heritage Foundation: The ethanol mandate should not be expanded
Via Campesina’s position on agro-fuels
Energy activists snipe at rivals
Tom Whipple on wind power
Hydro’s uphill battle
The hydrogen economy – energy and economic black hole
