Energy Efficiency

Its amazing isn’t it, the Australian government mandating the use of biofuel even though biofuel is high on energy consumption and low of energy ouput; the Victorian government allows the burning of old growth forests to be sold as ‘green energy’ and in Europe, the European Commission is trying to force biodiesel – from palm oil - onto European [...]

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One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars – not people, new figures show; new analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies. One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than [...]

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It was one of the dumbest “green” ideas ever proposed: Convert millions of acres of cropland into fields for growing ethanol from corn, then burn fossil fuels to harvest the ethanol, expending more energy to extract the fuel than you get from the fuel itself! Meanwhile, sit back and proclaim you’ve achieved a monumental green [...]

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Not all of these price spikes are due to the conversion of croplands to biofuel fields, but much of it is. As a result, it’s suddenly becoming obvious to nearly everyone that the pursuit of biofuels, as currently structured, is a grand green-wash hoax. It doesn’t produce more fuel than it consumes, and it drives [...]

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