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EU biofuels feedstock are crops grown in Europe. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
Current EU legislation on biofuels includes a goal to increase renewable energy consumption by 20%, eliminate biofuel feedstock sourced from carbon-rich land, accounting for emissions caused from land use change as well as solely biofuel usage, and reducing greenhouse gas intensities from fuels used in transport and machinery. (wikipedia.org)
South Africa's National Biofuels Industrial Strategy, developed in 2007, envisages that smallholder farmers would grow the bulk of feedstock crops such as maize and sugarcane that would be converted into biofuels. (uwc.ac.za)
My work clearly shows that the production of biofuel from these crops would only become viable if there was a substantial reduction in feedstock prices. (uwc.ac.za)
Jacobs's research suggests that strong policy and state support could help, perhaps through subsidising the cultivation of feedstock crops as in the USA and Europe, and initially in Brazil, or through tax rebates and incentives in the biofuels industry. (uwc.ac.za)
Still, it's not quite the feedstock the entrepreneur had in mind when he cooked up the idea over five years ago. (canadianbiomassmagazine.ca)
The study tries to address a very narrow question - how much of the carbon that is released into the atmosphere when biofuels are burned was offset by the taking up of carbon from the atmosphere when the plants used to create the biofuels (feedstock) were grown? (theness.com)
Current LCAs assume that the carbon offset of growing the feedstock is 100%, that the crops pull enough carbon out of the air to 100% offset the carbon released during burning of the biofuel. (theness.com)
The authors essentially analysed the increase in carbon capture by farms growing feedstock for biofuels from 2005-2013 and compared that to the amount of biofuel created and the amount of CO2 that would release. (theness.com)
However, this analysis found that the gains in CO 2 uptake by feedstock were enough to offset biofuel-related biogenic CO 2 emissions by only 37 % over 2005-2013, showing that biofuel use fell well short of being carbon neutral even before considering process emissions. (theness.com)
This analysis, for example, would not apply if we figure out a way of using algae for feedstock and bacteria to convert it to biofuels. (theness.com)
Neste Oil saw Asian palm as an advantageous feedstock platform for renewable diesel years ago and has used the feedstock to build one of the leading biofuels operations in Europe. (biofuels-news.com)
Biodiesel and biofuel producers require feedstock ("biofeedstock") as an essential component in the refining process. (searchmonster.org)

And nearly all of the biofuel crops it produces are for export, anyway. (motherjones.com)
Apart from biomass and food waste, biofuels can derive from crops which are not fit for consumption," Debenedetti said. (thefrontierpost.com)
VIDEO: Biofuel crops destined for Hamakua land leases? (bigislandvideonews.com)
Jacobs found that biofuel production using any of the four crops could not come close to matching the cost of petrol. (uwc.ac.za)
Biden administration officials have deliberated for months over how to set 2022 targets that are high enough to encourage greater use of biofuels without stoking excessive demand for soybeans, corn and other crops used for food and livestock feed. (ttnews.com)
Moreover, increasing production of biofuels from row crops will likely result in more water pollution due to soil erosion and the increased use of pesticides to grow enough crops to meet federal mandates for more ethanol, the researchers say. (mst.edu)
Today, most biofuels are produced from agricultural crops and are called conventional, or first-generation, biofuels. (hudsonalpha.org)
New technologies and processes that produce fuels from waste, inedible crops or forestry products are being developed and these fuels are known as advanced, or second-generation biofuels. (hudsonalpha.org)
Because advanced biofuels use waste products, leftover plant scraps and non-food crops, they do not take crops and land away from the food supply industry. (hudsonalpha.org)
Policymakers also are taking another look at biofuels and GM crops, write Javier Blas and Jenny Wiggins. (chinadialogue.net)
Rising food costs have also called into question government support for biofuels projects that divert needed arable land from food production, while putting pressure on many sceptical governments to review their opposition to genetically modified ( GM ) crops, which increase yields and drive down food prices. (chinadialogue.net)
While Båge says that a common view on the solution has yet to emerge, many governments agree that support for biofuels and opposition to GM crops must be tempered by the reality that food prices have reached crisis levels. (chinadialogue.net)

I see biofuels based on substances like agricultural biomass and food waste as the short-term alternative to fossil fuels for naval vessels," said Massimo Debenedetti, vice president for research and innovation at Italian shipyard Fincantieri. (thefrontierpost.com)
Biofuels are considered a renewable alternative to fossil fuels in the transportation sector for the EU. (wikipedia.org)
The three main criteria for biofuels to be sustainable and allowed for use are: Biofuels must achieve greenhouse gas savings of at least 35% versus fossil fuels, which then rises to 50% in 2017, then rises again to 60% in 2018. (wikipedia.org)
An open letter from 500-plus scientists and economists sent last year to world leaders warned that burning pellets "is likely to add two to three times as much carbon to the air as using fossil fuels. (thewalrus.ca)
Biofuels are promising substitutes for fossil fuels that are produced from renewable, organic (carbon-containing) materials like plant matter and animal waste. (hudsonalpha.org)
When they plug their 37% figure into current LCAs for biofuel efficiency they find that the use of biofuels has resulted in a net increase in carbon release, and in fact is worse than just burning fossil fuels. (theness.com)
A hundred million years ago there were all these plants and animals that died and decomposed … and now we have fossil fuels," he said. (forsythnews.com)

A large part of the solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector could be uniquely filled by biofuels and bioproducts. (energy.gov)
The Energy Department's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), in partnership with the national laboratories, academia, and private companies, is pursuing biofuel research and development to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and secure our energy independence. (energy.gov)
Eight years ago, leading aircraft manufacturer Boeing strategized about how it could continue to grow its business without growing greenhouse emissions at the same rate. (energy.gov)
McGinn said that with biofuel, the Navy can reduce its dependence on just one energy source (oil) and lower its greenhouse gas emissions while using its existing vehicle fleet. (energy.gov)
How airlines will save fuel costs and reduce net carbon emissions by converting to biofuels. (globalchange.com)
Aviation produces up to 5% of national carbon emissions in countries like the UK, growing every year - 2% globally. (globalchange.com)
Bentley sells so few cars--5,000 last year, only 10,000 in 2007, their best year ever--that compared to the output of major automakers, the cars' emissions are a rounding error at best. (greencarreports.com)
One-tenth of a mile per gallon better on every Toyota and Honda built this year would likely cut far more emissions than taking all 50,000 or so Bentleys built over 90 years off the road entirely. (greencarreports.com)
Since biofuels emit less carbon dioxide than conventional fuels they can be blended with existing fuels as an effective way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in transportation. (hudsonalpha.org)
You would have thought that this revelation would be enough for the EU to put the brakes on the current expansion of biofuel production which, after all, is driven by a desire to lower greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector. (libdemvoice.org)
When you add this warning to the ever-mounting scientific evidence on the significant emissions from biofuel production given off from land use change and by nitrogen fertilisers then you really start to wonder why policy makers are still pushing ahead with plans that seemed like a really good idea a few years ago but now look like a disaster waiting to happen. (libdemvoice.org)
Just one problem: biofuels do not lower greenhouse gas emissions and they could push another 600 million more people into hunger by 2020. (libdemvoice.org)
Thursday - Ten years ago, a motoring organisation earned national recognition for leading the way with energy-efficient buildings and cutting carbon emissions in Australia. (carbonnews.co.nz)
29 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, Foodstuffs was looking to cut emissions and energy costs by switching to natural refrigeration. (carbonnews.co.nz)
21 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, Australia s Emissions Reduction Fund was likely to cost its government $A20 a tonne, and possibly $40 a tonne, an analyst said. (carbonnews.co.nz)

20 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, a New Zealand second generation-biofuels company was in the market for funding to build a refinery. (carbonnews.co.nz)

Deploying effective carbon capture and storage at biofuels plants will cement ethanol and biodiesel as the lowest carbon liquid fuels commercially available in the marketplace. (ethanolproducer.com)
Today, routine flights are powered by biofuels, but Felgar said the key to widespread market penetration is to lower the cost of these fuels even more. (energy.gov)
Under the 17-year-old law, fuel importers and refiners are required to blend alternative fuels into diesel and gasoline. (ttnews.com)
And since 90 percent of Bentleys made since 1920 are still on the road, today's owners want to know that their cars will run on greener fuels 10 or 20 years hence. (greencarreports.com)
The use of biofuels has grown over the past decade, driven largely by the introduction of new energy policies in several countries, including the United States, that call for more renewable, lower-carbon fuels for transport. (hudsonalpha.org)
Although interest in biofuels is growing, they only represent around three percent of road transport fuels in use around the world today. (hudsonalpha.org)
Even with sluggish demand for distillate fuels in the US this year, which is trailing the 2011 consumption rate by 3.7% through mid-October, US biodiesel producers had something to cheer in opening the. (biofuels-news.com)
Digital, EVs and alternative fuels, new mobility models, changing customer habits-the forces disrupting fuel retail have only intensified in the past few years. (bcg.com)
Monday - Ten years ago, fuel retailer Gull New Zealand said the NXT Fuels biofuels refinery project would be a breakthrough for the industry. (carbonnews.co.nz)
The World Bank study confirms what we wrote more than a year ago about the madness of bio-fuels . (mediamonarchy.com)

A sustainable biofuels industry plays an important role in narrowing this deficit whilst at the same time acting as an important incentive for research and for the development of better performing plant varieties", Wenner added. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
She said airlines around the world are ready and able to take on sustainable aviation biofuels as soon as they are cost competitive. (energy.gov)

Chemically, biofuels are alcohols produced by fermenting raw materials from starch and sugars. (wikipedia.org)
In order to access the sugars to make biofuel, the fibrous lignin must be broken apart. (hudsonalpha.org)
Manufacturers worldwide rely on yeast to convert sugars from corn or sugar cane into ethanol, a biofuel now blended with gasoline in cars and trucks. (mit.edu)
Tracing the Evolution of Shiitake Mushrooms Understanding Lentinula genomes and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for biofuel production. (doe.gov)

One of the more prominent biofuels, ethanol, is made up of biomass such as sugarcane and corn. (wikipedia.org)
They have also partnered with several airlines (Lufthansa, Air France/KLM, and British Airways) and biofuel producers (Choren Industries, Neste Oils, Biomass Technology Group, and UOP) to achieve the goals set in the Flightpath. (wikipedia.org)
The company firmly believes that second- and third-generation ethanol--that made from biomass like switchgrass, or even more advanced technologies like algae that grow in sunlight and excrete biofuel--will become a major factor. (greencarreports.com)
In fact, that academic background is not hard to believe as he settles in to recount the history of Canadian Biofuels and agro-biomass 101. (canadianbiomassmagazine.ca)
Since news that Europe may be capping foodbased biofuels at 5% of the total amount of renewable energy used in transport, interest in alternative non-food feedstocks such as marine biomass has exploded. (biofuels-news.com)

During our ninth annual bioenergy conference ( Bioenergy 2016 ), we heard from many leaders in the field of bioenergy who presented compelling reasons for why cost-competitive biofuels are needed outside of on-road transportation. (energy.gov)
Rep. Kaptur of Ohio encouraged bioenergy leaders to develop waste-to-energy technology solutions to help take advantage of wet waste as resources for biofuels-thereby, turning waste into a resource. (energy.gov)
The recommended approach for scaling bioenergy and biofuels technology follows a similar stage gate process to that used in traditional Chemical Process Industry (CPI) processes. (biofuels-news.com)

In a globalized world, the expansion of the biofuels industry has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of land for food-based agriculture in poor corners of Asia, Africa and Latin America because the raw material is grown wherever it is cheapest," she writes. (motherjones.com)
Biofuels must not be grown in areas that are currently, or were previously, carbon sinks (e.g. wetlands, forests). (wikipedia.org)
These results may be surprising to the people who proposed these species as biofuels because nearly all of the plants have been grown in Florida for decades for ornamental or agricultural purposes. (smithsonianmag.com)
Cellulose biofuels and ocean-grown algal biofuels could be the source of zero carbon aviation fuel and also plastics once the oil runs out. (libdemvoice.org)
Prior analysis of the utility of biofuels assumes that the offset is 100%, that all of the carbon released when biofuels are burned came from the atmosphere when the plants were grown. (theness.com)
In the process to produce biofuel, Tray McConchie explained that algae are grown in water and then harvested. (forsythnews.com)

The country's lush farmland is largely "owned by a handful of families," Rosenthal reports, and they're finding it much more profitable to grow sugarcane and palm to satisfy Europe's biofuel mandates than to rent it to peasant farmers to grow food. (motherjones.com)
Jacobs cites Brazil's successful PróÁlcool programme as a good example of substantial job creation in both the biofuel and car manufacturing industries through the production of cheap ethanol from sugarcane. (uwc.ac.za)
That was the answer for corn ethanol, but sugarcane biofuels were likely efficient due to the higher energy density of the plants. (theness.com)

The idea behind the Boeing partnership is that a growing market for tobacco jet biofuel in South Africa will make up for a shrinking market for cigarettes and other cancer-linked tobacco products. (cleantechnica.com)
The South Africa tobacco venture is just one part of Boeing's transition to biofuel . (cleantechnica.com)
Despite its potential benefits to the country's economy, the production of biofuel is not yet economically viable in South Africa. (uwc.ac.za)
In his master's thesis, titled 'Assessing the Economic Viability of Biofuel Production in South Africa', University of the Western Cape student Denver Jacobs argues that a sharp drop in the prices of raw materials and strong policy guidance could help make biofuel production a more attractive investment. (uwc.ac.za)
South Africa favours blending petrol with biofuels at a 9:1 ratio (known as an E10 fuel mixture), making the fuel suitable for standard petrol engines without modification. (uwc.ac.za)

The two most common types of biofuels in use today are ethanol and biodiesel. (hudsonalpha.org)

But the US and EU governments brushed off my verbal assault, maintaining their escalating biofuel mandates. (motherjones.com)
For urban residents, the US biofuel mandates-now sending 40 percent of the US corn crop into ethanol production-are pushing up the price of corn, a staple food in Guatemala. (motherjones.com)
And for Guatemala's subsistence farmers, biofuel mandates in the Global North mean less land for growing food. (motherjones.com)
Although a number of southeast Asian countries have introduced minimum biofuel blending mandates, not all governments have succeeded in enforcing them, with biofuel producers in some countries exporting. (biofuels-news.com)

How about biofuels, biodiesel and biogas? (island.lk)
Biodiesel and biofuel are alternatives to petrol. (searchmonster.org)

CleanTechnica first got wind of Boeing's plans for tobacco jet biofuel earlier this year, when the company clued us in to its interest in halophytes (salt tolerant, desert-loving plants) that show promise for commercial biofuel production. (cleantechnica.com)
The big draw is the potential for halophyte-derived biofuels to outperform their petroleum counterparts, particularly tar sands derived oil, in addition to providing carbon-neutral production benefits (here's a video about halophytes that explains the whole thing). (cleantechnica.com)
Earlier this year, the company announced a biofuel R&D partnership in Brazil , which also echoes the aforementioned regionalized approach to biofuel production. (cleantechnica.com)
however, it has also aimed, to some extent, to mitigate the potential negative impacts of biofuel production. (wikipedia.org)
For this resource to be considered renewable, the EU has strict sustainability standards for the production of and use of biofuels. (wikipedia.org)
The European Advanced Biofuels Flightpath aims to get biofuels to the market faster through the production of more advanced production facilities and to have the aviation industry use 2 million tonnes of biofuels by 2020. (wikipedia.org)
Rules have been established by the commission to address a problem associated with thepotential indirect land use change that biofuel production may cause, since biofuel production usually takes place on former cropland. (wikipedia.org)
Biofuel production: a drink-or-drive issue? (mst.edu)
Federal requirements to increase the production of ethanol has developed into a "drink-or-drive issue" in the Midwest as a result of biofuel production's impact on water supplies and water quality, says an environmental engineering researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology . (mst.edu)
While previous studies have examined biofuel production's impact on air quality, land use and net energy value, "the effect of increased biofuel production on water security has not been subjected to the same scrutiny," the researchers write. (mst.edu)
The main focus of previous studies looked at environmental trade-offs to fossil-fuel usage and not other aspects of biofuel production, according to the researchers. (mst.edu)
The decision to mandate ethanol production may look great initially as we all like the concept of biofuels," Burken says, "but really our difficult energy position and reliance on foreign oil is the result of our lack of an energy policy and investing a decade ago in biofuel technologies. (mst.edu)
Biofuel production is part of our energy future, but it needs to be considered as part of a portfolio of energy sources and technologies. (mst.edu)
The pellet plant in Springford, Ontario, owned by Canadian Biofuels Inc. started production in March 2012 as an energy supplier surrounded by orchards and farmland, hundreds of kilometres from any serious wood products industry. (canadianbiomassmagazine.ca)
Biofuels have incredible potential to be a crucial part of future energy production. (libdemvoice.org)
The amount of state licenses for industrial hemp production in Tennessee grew to 226 in 2018, nearly triple the amount of licenses one year ago. (wbir.com)
The biggest limitation on cost-effective biofuels production is the toxic effect of alcohols such as ethanol on yeast," says Gregory Stephanopoulos , the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering. (mit.edu)
But I am equally convinced that conversion of land from food production to biofuel production is a real threat to public health and we need an agreement to ensure conversion of land from food production to biofuel does not precipitate a further food crisis and, thus, a public health crisis. (who.int)
Whenever land for biofuel replaces food production, we must demand vigorous examination to ensure the global food supply is unaffected by such conversions. (who.int)

Brazil supports the use of flexible-fuel vehicles that can run on either biofuels or petrol. (uwc.ac.za)

Tray McConchie holds a beaker Monday at Algae Energy Inc. The company focuses on fabrication, research and development for Algae.Tec Ltd., which produces a range of biofuels, including diesel and jet, from algae. (forsythnews.com)

Capturing and storing carbon dioxide in underground wells has the potential to become the most consequential technological deployment in the history of the broader biofuels industry. (ethanolproducer.com)
Now, optimists might argue that a rising biofuel-export industry will at least bring much-needed jobs to Guatemala. (motherjones.com)
The UK's biofuels supply chain has launched an appeal to David Cameron, urging him to address the real causes of hunger and not to blame the industry. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
Lack of infrastructure, education, income and knowledge of agricultural practices should be addressed to improve food availability in poorer countries, according to the biofuel industry. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
The industry believes that the G8 meeting should represent an opportunity to investigate the real causes of hunger and acknowledge that biofuels are not an issue. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
Suppliers also claimed that the biofuels industry has enabled UK farmers to invest over £1 billion and is creating growth and jobs in many disadvantaged regions. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
They introduced the "European Advanced Biofuels Flightpath" in 2011, which promotes the increased use of biofuels in the aviation industry. (wikipedia.org)
In addition, BETO is holding an alternative aviation fuel workshop in September to convene aviation industry stakeholders to advance the understanding of the barriers to price competitiveness of commercial aviation biofuels. (energy.gov)
Biofuels can create more jobs than the oil industry, but they can also reduce imported oil and an uncertain energy future. (greencarcongress.com)
A $9 billion global industry, according to a 2020 estimate by a US research firm, the pellet market is expected to double again in the next five years. (thewalrus.ca)
Picked up originally by Reuters, the senior official warned that taking full account of the carbon footprint of biofuels would 'kill' an EU industry with revenues of approximately $5 billion per year. (libdemvoice.org)
Despite the global recession, the cellulosic biofuels industry now has facilities and projects under development in more than 20 U.S. states representing billions of dollars of private investment. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)
The whole question of farm subsidies, and how they have lately spurred a giant biofuels industry -- one that could be set up in a way that makes sense . (blogspot.com)
This is because newly wealthy consumers in countries such as China and India, who can increasingly afford to improve their diets, as well as the biofuels industry, are expected to maintain a rapacious demand for basic food commodities such as wheat, corn and soya. (chinadialogue.net)
For example, our association is aware of services from members of our industry last year alone. (who.int)

If one of the goals of growing plants for biofuel is to be kinder to the environment than you are by extracting oil from the earth, you wouldn't want to plant anything that could be harmful to the environment. (smithsonianmag.com)
The researchers note that the characteristics that make a plant attractive as a biofuel source-high productivity, low input requirements, wide breadth of habitat-overlap with those of non-native invasive species. (smithsonianmag.com)
Here in Bristol we recently turned down a planing application for a biofuels plant, against legal advice. (libdemvoice.org)
The company will invest an estimated $600 million into what it plans to call the Centerpoint Biofuels Plant in northwest Indiana. (wfyi.org)

As a part of the Flightpath, the EU also plans to facilitate purchase agreements between aviation companies and biofuel producers. (wikipedia.org)
In the past year, renewable fuel producers, airlines, and the military have signed several fuel purchase agreements . (energy.gov)
A federal jury in Illinois has delivered a verdict of $17.7 million in damages to several major food manufacturing companies who sued egg producers over a conspiracy to limit the supply of eggs in the U.S. years ago. (wfyi.org)

Recognizing this potential for danger, a group of biologists at the University of Florida recently set out to predict whether a dozen species being considered for biofuel cultivation could become invasive. (smithsonianmag.com)

The money the state could have earned by divesting a decade ago would have covered more than 25 percent of the costs from 2012's climate change fueled Superstorm Sandy. (altenergystocks.com)
Enzyme costs are down 80 percent in the last decade, and cellulosic biofuels are being produced for $2 per gallon or less today. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)

Tobacco has taken a bow here and there at CleanTechnica for its emerging role in the renewable biofuel field, and Boeing is about to blow it into the mainstream. (cleantechnica.com)
The new Boeing tobacco jet biofuel announcement steps things up to the next level. (cleantechnica.com)
Boeing looked to biofuels. (energy.gov)
Boeing has now tested and approved five biofuel pathways through the ASTM (American Society of the International Association for Testing and Materials) process. (energy.gov)

Biofuels are part of an ongoing study led by Fincantieri-owned propulsion firm Isotta Fraschini Motori, which aims to develop a marine engine that can use either traditional fuel, liquid natural gas, ammonia, hydrogen or biofuel. (thefrontierpost.com)
If biofuel has short-term potential, the longer-term challenge Fincantieri is working on is creating hydrogen-powered fuel cells for surface vessels that are similar to those used on submarines today. (thefrontierpost.com)
Editor's note: Wonder why you're hearing much more about biofuels than hydrogen fuel these days? (culturechange.org)

In this extensive interview which was first published in September's edition of Renewable Energy Magazine's sister publication Energías Renovables, Vierhout discusses and disputes many of the accusations thrown at the biofuel sector. (renewableenergymagazine.com)

Geoff Cooper, president and CEO of the RFA, discusses how U.S. EPA regulations have caused the number of flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) capable of running E85 to plummet in recent years, from 2.8 million in 2014 to less than 350,000 in 2022. (ethanolproducer.com)
Published 8:45, Mar. 28, 2022 This article was published over a year ago. (thewalrus.ca)

The aerospace giant has teamed with South African Airways and SkyNRG to produce tobacco jet biofuel at commercial scale, using South African tobacco farms as the source. (cleantechnica.com)
The fact that, at least per this article, these biofuel digesters are explosion-prone, can produce water contaminants, and also emit lung-damaging fumes is enough to raise questions as to whether this approach is a net positive. (nakedcapitalism.com)
Raw materials obtained from areas with high biodiversity, such as forests or grasslands, cannot be used to produce biofuels. (wikipedia.org)
To ensure these standards are met by the companies that produce and cultivate biofuels, there are several ways that the EU may verify their compliance. (wikipedia.org)
BETO is helping to fund projects that reduce the cost of renewable jet fuel, that scale up biorefineries to produce biofuel for commercial and military use, and that improve the efficiency and reduce risks of innovative technologies that convert wet waste to biofuel. (energy.gov)
Improvements in efficiency over the years have slowly shifted the results of LCAs and recently it seems that biofuels are reasonably energy efficient - they produce more energy than they consume. (theness.com)
Beyond cellulosic biofuels, the companies are expected to produce a variety of other products, such as renewable power, industrial molasses, bio-chemicals, aviation fuel and more. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)
This is Rush's third year with a license from the state to produce industrial hemp as part of a pilot program with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. (wbir.com)
Furthermore, the EU has grain surpluses which could be used to produce biofuels, not only to reduce these stockpiles and therefore limit the extent to which they distort markets, but also to fight climate change and reduce dependence on oil. (renewableenergymagazine.com)
Left to right: Gregory Stephanopoulos of chemical engineering, Gerald Fink of biology and the Whitehead Institute, and Felix Lam of chemical engineering are developing new insights and techniques that could one day dramatically increase the amount of ethanol, butanol, and other biofuels that yeast can produce from raw materials such as corn and sugar cane. (mit.edu)

Biofuels cause hunger. (libdemvoice.org)

Strict sustainability standards for biofuel in the European Union (EU) are set by the European Commissioner on Energy. (wikipedia.org)
A scheme is an independent and external group or company that will verify whether a company is following the sustainability criteria for biofuels. (wikipedia.org)
This could help improve sustainability, making advanced biofuels a promising form of fuel for the future. (hudsonalpha.org)

This year, the challenge is intensified by climbing inflation, war-strained supplies of vegetable oils used to make green diesel and record-high gasoline prices that threaten the U.S. economic recovery. (ttnews.com)

Now, amid growing government incentives to turn the manure generated at these operations into climate-friendly biofuels, there are mounting concerns that the efforts could make industrial farming bigger and more dangerous. (nakedcapitalism.com)

During the event, three Biden administration officials discussed the White House's commitment to supporting domestic, farm-based biofuels as a climate solution. (ethanolproducer.com)
But, as well as not being a solution to climate change - the very problem they were designed to combat - there is another problem with biofuels and this is the reason that ActionAid have recently launched their anti-biofuels campaign. (libdemvoice.org)
The assumption that biofuels are inherently carbon neutral is a premise of most climate-related fuel policies promulgated to date, including measures such as the LCFS and RFS that evaluate GHG impacts using lifecycle modeling. (theness.com)
28 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, a study said that economic losses from climate impacts in the Pacific region could reach 12.7% percent of annual GDP by 2100. (carbonnews.co.nz)
27 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, New Zealand dealt with what was claimed to be the world s first climate change refugee by throwing his case out of court. (carbonnews.co.nz)
17 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, the Green Party said COP19 would be the critical test of the international community s will to prevent dangerous climate change. (carbonnews.co.nz)
16 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification executive-secretary warned of imminent social chaos if we continued to ignore the impacts of climate change. (carbonnews.co.nz)
14 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, a leading international climate scientist said the New Zealand Government was ignoring inconvenient evidence about climate change. (carbonnews.co.nz)
13 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, the government was under fire over its apparent lack of belief in human-induced climate change. (carbonnews.co.nz)
I am convinced the pursuit of biofuel is a reasonable response and can contribute to the reduction of global warming and climate change. (who.int)

The change in land use has been rapid and stark: "Suchitepéquez Province, a major corn-producing region [for domestic food consumption] five years ago, is now carpeted with sugar cane and African palm. (motherjones.com)
The EPA also is preparing to issue long-delayed quotas for 2021 that will essentially track actual consumption and retroactively lower previously established targets for 2020, partly to adjust for pandemic-battered fuel demand that year. (ttnews.com)
The overall water footprint associated with biofuels must recognize the impact of increased agricultural activity on water quality as well as water consumption," they write. (mst.edu)
KLM ambitiously set out a goal to increase its biofuel consumption to 1% of its total fuel use by 2015. (biofuels-news.com)

You've got some really awesome farmers turning over a lot of money where their tobacco farms were dead five years ago," said Rush. (wbir.com)
Farmers weren't bankrupted by too-good harvest years. (blogspot.com)

The fact that biofuels are not responsible for the food crisis and the increase in raw material prices can also be justified in another way: raw material prices have actually fallen, while we are producing more biofuels than ever. (renewableenergymagazine.com)

Over the past 10 years, these sectors have been working to develop, evaluate, and deploy biofuels. (energy.gov)
This report provides a commercial deployment update for a number of first movers in the cellulosic biofuels sector," it said, adding that it doesn't cover all cellulosic biofuel projects worldwide and doesn't include information on other advanced biofuel sectors. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)

For example, it features information about the two LanzaTech demo plants in China, which began operations this year, producing ethanol from waste gases from steel mills. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)

A coalition of biofuel and farm groups on Nov. 27 released a statement expressing disappointment in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' Nov. 22 decision remanding to the U.S. EPA six small refinery exemption (SRE) requests. (ethanolproducer.com)

How biofuels for vehicles are driving up food prices, causing suffering in the poorest nations, unrest, international tension and making political chaos more likely with food riots and fall of governments. (globalchange.com)
Most governments now agree that the astounding surge in food prices last year - the cost of food rose almost 40% globally, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ), and has continued to rise this year - is structural, meaning that prices will not retreat to former levels. (chinadialogue.net)

As Lambert likes to say, I do try to keep up, but I must confess to being unfamiliar with this new farm to biofuel scheme. (nakedcapitalism.com)
24 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, the author of a new book launched in Warsaw said the REDD scheme alone would not combat deforestation business needed to step up to the plate. (carbonnews.co.nz)

As well as pushing up food prices, the expansion of industrial biofuels driven by global government targets, subsidies and incentives, is also encouraging biofuel companies to grab land all over the developing world. (libdemvoice.org)

The report, Future Patterns of U.S. Feed Grains, Biofuels, and Livestock and Poultry Feeding, was presented by AFIA President and CEO, Joel G. Newman at the Federation of Animal Sciences symposium. (aquafeed.com)
The U.S. livestock and poultry industries are working under significantly different dynamics than they were just 5 or 10 years ago," explained AFIA's president and CEO, Joel G. Newman. (aquafeed.com)

This new study asks a different question: is the assumption of carbon neutrality in the growing and burning of biofuels justified? (theness.com)

A previous report from earlier this year from the agency found that the Indian capital city of Delhi had annually averaged PM2.5 levels of 122, or more than 12 times the safe level. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)
The action was done at the same toxic tailings pond that earlier this year killed 500 ducks. (dominionpaper.ca)

Jacobs argues that the availability of biofuels could dramatically ease South Africa's dependence on crude oil (the country currently imports around 70% of its crude oil needs) and ensure greater energy security amid fluctuating oil prices. (uwc.ac.za)
Food processors warned the EPA in January that supply chain "chaos" and food inflation would worsen without an ease in proposed biofuel-blending requirements. (ttnews.com)

These biofuels are actually better for airplanes to run on since they have fewer contaminants, and there may be opportunities where renewable jet fuel has a higher energy density than petroleum fuel. (energy.gov)

Biofuels are by far the easiest way to meet this target, much simpler than investing in public transport, increasing the fuel efficiency of car engines, or any of a number of other real solutions. (libdemvoice.org)

Rosenthal points to an Iowa State University study estimating that US biofuel policy added about 17 percent to global corn prices in 2011-bad news for people who rely on tortillas as a staple. (motherjones.com)
And global GDP growth slumped from 3.9% last year…to 2.5% this year. (iata.org)
Over the last two years a defamatory campaign has been waged which blames biofuels for a number of issues related with the global food market, such as food shortages and price increases. (renewableenergymagazine.com)
According to the report, the three main factors impacting feed availability and cost are biofuels, global demand, specific exports and annual crop yields. (aquafeed.com)
9 Nov 23 - Ten years ago, Dunedin City Council was one of the first local authorities in the country to measure its carbon footprint against the global greenhouse gas standard. (carbonnews.co.nz)

Despite the first few hundred Supersports not being E85-capable , Bentley is pressing on to make every model biofuel-ready. (greencarreports.com)
Help the Government to make the right decision by visiting http://www.actionaid.org.uk/biofuels and emailing the Department for Transport to ask them not to lock us into an increased biofuel target. (libdemvoice.org)

She did this after advocating against divestment by the state pension fund for years and while doubling the fund's investments in the Williams pipeline company to $160 million. (altenergystocks.com)
A local subsidiary of a biofuel company has plans to expand. (forsythnews.com)
He approached investors about his company five years ago, but at that time, crude oil prices were running about $45 per barrel. (forsythnews.com)
The company began over thirty-seven years ago in Florida. (searchmonster.org)
Boies is now CEO and CFO of Enerkem, a biofuels company. (hardlines.ca)

The elder McConchie said he believes biofuels are the way of the future. (forsythnews.com)

New York State pension fund would be $22 billion richer had it divested from fossil fuel stocks 10 years ago. (altenergystocks.com)
Many aircraft flying today were made over 25 years ago and waste fuel. (globalchange.com)
With gas prices high and with commodities around the world high, there's a massive amount of political attention on this program," said Advanced Biofuels Association President Mike McAdams, who has worked on the Renewable Fuel Standard since before its creation in 2005. (ttnews.com)
Most of the fuel that we currently consume is fossil fuel formed from the fossilized, buried remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. (hudsonalpha.org)
The renewable fuel standard was amended to include cellulosic biofuels just 5 years ago," the report said. (governorsbiofuelscoalition.org)
And though the pressures today remain as urgent as they were a few years ago, fuel retailers now can choose from among a plethora of options, rather than following a narrow path. (bcg.com)

Scania has been granted SEK 30 million (US$4.4 million) by Sweden's Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Initiative ( FFI ) to develop a biofuel engine intended for heavy commercial vehicles. (greencarcongress.com)

European power plants have been among the biggest consumers-pellet-fired power plants are uncommon in North America-but demand from Japan and South Korea has also increased in recent years. (thewalrus.ca)

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