Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'balance'

Surely taking corn out of the market will raise the price

I've been in conversation with David Benson, about the role of biofuels in the current round of food price rises across the world. We've been chatting in the comments a couple of posts back . I don't think that...

Biofuel energy balance and cars

Worth watching this movie and then going to the home page to look at the commetns/ take part. Interesting conversation -- at least at first -- about fuel efficiency. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfcEwEo5yRc...

Is ethanol energetically favourable?

Is ethanol energetically favourable? I don't know, you have an idea and MIT has an answer. Cheers to Biggav for the tipoff...

Oregon's academics say ethanol is a waste of effort

Oregon's academics say ethanol is a waste of effort in a report published recently and discussed on the Onward Oregon Blog Our George Seldes says Whether you care about the phony issue of "energy independence," the very real issue of...

Cereal demand and production is going to be tight in 2007

Production of cereals and demand for them is going to be tight in 2007, according to a report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, in a statement released yesterday. The FAO Says World cereal production in 2007 is on...

Biofuels: some questions to be faced.

Is fuels ethanol bad for the evniroment and are biofuels a dead end? Here’s the pay-off to a Q& A between John Philpott of Grist magazine and David Pimentel, professor of entomology at Cornell. Philpott: A lot of earnest people...