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The Biofuels Situation

Just a short comment, when the biofuels debate reaches the front page of Time magazine, it is surely significant.

from: Time (click image for full story online)

Although the contradictors are already at work, I feel we should all acknowledge that very massive and rapid change is happening that could have extremely serious [...]

Ethanol From Corn – Costing

I hope this is not becoming too much of a biofuels blog, but I found this very interesting and was particularly struck by how a quick calculation can bring insight – maybe we need to to this more often in food processing!

While the “energy cost of ethanol” is much more difficult to calculate, the [...]

Fourth Generation Biofuels

I’n now seeing articles about “fourth generation” biofuels, like the one below from Biopact, while I was still in the second generation.

from Biopact

For those who are maybe as confused as I am, this is how I understand it it.

First Generation – these are the ones we all know and the [...]

What is the Real Position on Biofuels

Here is the first of my notes on Biofuels – I look forward to inputs and comments!

I am sure I can not answer that question – I think its a bit like the “will Biotechnology really save the poor of the world?” question which has two “sides”, a public who can’t decide and not [...]

Biofuels & the Bottom of the Pyramid

Having recently spent lot of time scouring the INTERNET I have been struck by the focus that there is now on two issues that impact on development in Africa – Biofuels and BOP enterprise models.

Biofuels

As Europe and the USA see the effect expanding refining is having on their agriculture and understand the overall [...]

Across the desert to Timbuktu in a car fuelled by chocolate

The Independent reported on two “environmental activists”Andy Pag and John Grimshaw who were setting out to drive from Dorset to Timbuktu in a car powered by chocolate waste.

They left their home town of Poole, Dorset, on a cross-Channel ferry yesterday. They are travelling in a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry powered by fuel which began [...]

The link of the Day

This will be a regular posting – presenting a link through a discussion of its value to me.

The Manual for Home and Farm Production of Biodiesel by SW Mathewson

A thorough but simple and well explained manual for anyone interested in Bioethenol, and who in agribusiness isn’t today.

The manual is available online at [...]