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Biofuels – the bad and the good!

by Tom Raftery on July 4, 2008 · 5 comments

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The Guardian revealed today that it has obtained a World Bank report claiming that biofuels are responsible for 75% of the recent surge in food prices – far more than was previously thought.
Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line, estimates the World Bank, and have sparked riots from [...]

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The high price of oil is not the problem – it is the solution to the actual problem of anthropogenic climate change

by Tom Raftery on June 17, 2008 · 6 comments

in biofuels

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Chris Morrisson has a post on the VentureBeat blog extolling a heavily self-funded startup called Algenol Biofuels which is using algae to produce ethanol for use as a fuel.
The company is about to build a refinery in Mexico to produce:
a jaw-dropping billion gallons a year of ethanol by the end of 2012
In the [...]

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