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Exageration & Errors in Biofuels News

How well do we really know that what we read is real, especially in those sectors where everyone is optimistic and the opportunities are large. Here’s an example.

Biofuels Digest recently published a story entitled

 

from: Biofuels Digest (click image for full story online)

 

which clearly did not follow up [...]

No Ethanol from Maize in South Africa!

South Africa’s new government lead the way in banning smoking in public (even the French can’t smoke in their cafe now) and seem to be making good decisions again.

from: Business Day (click image for full story online)

 

Responding to the potential food and particularly maize supply problems, the Agriculture Minister Lulu [...]

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 [...]