Entries from The Big Biofuels Blog tagged with 'rapeseed'
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports.
ICIS has broadened the scope of its biofuel price reports. In Europe, adding to the comprehensive biodiesel coverage of rapeseed methyl ester (RME) and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME -5 & -0 CFPP), the report will now also reflect biodiesel...
Rape seed plants can clean up toxic soil with a bacterial injection
Rape seed plants can clean up toxic soil with a bacterial injection, according to my colleague Doris De Guzman on Green Chemicals Blog. The with suitable injections of bacteria, the plants grow faster and can help remove heavy metal residues...
Details of the UK's road transport fuel obligation are out
Details of the UK's renewable transport fuel obligation are out, published on 09 October, reprinted in They Work for you (a website that aims to help you keep track of your MP, one for the anoraks (policy wonks) then). Biofuels...
The carbon footprint of biofuels and petrofuels
SRIC’s Carbon Footprint of Biofuels & Petrofuels report suggests that... land use is so critical [to the environmental impact of biofuels] that – at least from a global warming viewpoint – northern European farmers should plant trees and burn petrodiesel...
More on the energy balance of biofuels
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has a piece of work open to review about the energy balance that biofuels provide, according to the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry: Growing and burning many biofuels may actually raise rather than lower greenhouse gas...
UK has enough land to meet RTFO says NUF
The UK has enough spare land to grow crops that would enable the country to meet its Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, according to a post over on FWi's Food for Thought blog. Charles Abel says Significantly, the NFU estimates that...
UK farmers and biofuels
UK farmers and biofuels get showcased in this excellent video from Farmers Weekly Interactive....
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