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Final Notes from BIO's World Congress
On June 29 at BIO’s World Congress, Steen Riisgaard, CEO of Novozymes, and Stephen Tanda, Board Member of Royal DSM N.V., released a report from the World Economic Forum on The Future of Industrial Biorefineries. The report says that a biorefinery value chain could create revenue for agricultural inputs ($15 billion US), for biomass production ($89 billion), for biomass trading ($30 billion), for biorefining inputs ($10 billion), for biorefining fuels ($80 billion), for bioplastics ($6 Read More >
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Tags: biobased products, biofuel, biomass, Bruce Dale, carbon debt, climate change, Climate Change, greenhouse gas emissions, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, meetings, Searchinger
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From Pacific Rim Summit: Specialty Crops, Renewable Feedstocks & Sustainability
This panel on the second day of the Summit consisted of Richard Gustafson from the University of Washington, Gillian Madill, an independent consultant representing views of the environmental NGO community and John Sheehan, from the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. While Mr. Gustafson and Mr. Sheehan gave informative talks on lifecycle assessment modeling and sustainability issues, Ms. Madill lit up the room with her talk titled, “Environmental Concerns with Energy Biotechnologies.” Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, Climate Change, environment, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, meetings, Sustainability, sustainable energy
Tags: biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, Climate Change, environment, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, meetings, Sustainability, sustainable energy
All Your Eggs in One Basket
Biofuels Digest reported this week that DoE Secretary Chu told attendees of an alternative energy conference, “If it were up to me, I would put every cent into electric cars.” The following day, Biofuels Digest reported its own lifecycle analysis of E85 from corn and the Tesla electric car. According to the report, “cars running on E85 corn-based ethanol at the proposed new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards will generate 30 percent lower CO2 Read More >
Corn Growers Try to Understand Indirect Land Use Change
The National Corn Growers Association’s recent “Land Use: Carbon Impacts of Corn Based Ethanol 2009” conference highlighted the confusion the issue of indirect land use change has engendered for farmers. Chuck Zimmerman of AgWired summed it up in a report from the conference: Do you understand things like indirect land use when it comes to regulations via departments like the EPA due to the RFS? Me either. And I’ve sat in on conferences and discussions Read More >
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Tags: biofuel, biofuels, California Air Resources Board, carbon debt, corn ethanol, environmental protection agency, EPA, ethanol, indirect land use change, international land use change, Land Use Change, life cycle analysis, lifecycle analysis, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, renewable fuel standard, U.S. EPA
New Biofuels Manifesto
University of Minnesota Professor David Tilman, Princeton University Visiting Scholar Tim Searchinger, Dartmouth Professor Lee Lynd and others involved in the debate over the environmental and social impacts of biofuels have published in Science magazine what amounts to a new manifesto on how biofuels can be done right. The authors list five biofuel feedstocks that are the best in terms of sustainability — “lower life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions than traditional fossil fuels and with little or Read More >
