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Europe Reconsiders Biofuel Goal European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious goal to raise Europe’s use of biofuels, signaling a significant retrenchment. Home > Rss Directory > General > NY Time |
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Europe Reconsiders Biofuel Goal European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious goal to raise Europe’s use of biofuels, signaling a significant retrenchment. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Europe, Cutting Biofuel Subsidies, Redirects Aid to Stress Greenest Options In cutting across-the-board subsidies for biofuels, governments in Europe are discovering how difficult it can be to figure out whether a particular fuel has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Virgin biofuel jumbo trials won't use algae As UK.gov reviews food-powered fuel policy Trials of biofuels for airliners will use conventional, controversial feedstocks, it has been reported. Virgin Atlantic and Boeing had hoped to employ so-called "second-generation" biofuel feedstocks such as algae which wouldn't threaten food production Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Biofuel 2.0 gets off ground in Kiwi airliner trial Oily desert nuts juice up righteous jumbo Air New Zealand has announced that its planned airliner biofuel test will be carried out using biodiesel made from jatropha nuts. Jatropha plants, able to survive in deserts, could offer a biofuel source which would not compete with food production or dri Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Gov: UK biofuel probably made of starvation, rainforests Doesn't matter though, we aren't using much The British government has released its first monthly report into biofuels used in the UK. It says that not much biofuel is used, and that in general it has very little idea if Blighty's biofuel is sustainably produced, what kind of land was used to mak Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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From Biofuel to Biohazard, Just Like That Biofuel may be the future of energy consumption but the rush to embrace it is driving up the price of corn, causing water shortages and driving poor farmers from their land, a U.N. official warns. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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From Biofuel to Biohazard, Just Like That Biofuel may be the future of energy consumption but the rush to embrace it is driving up the price of corn, causing water shortages and driving poor farmers from their land, a U.N. official warns. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Biofuel: Bad for the Environment? Researchers find that biofuel makes global warming worse, not better. Home > Rss Directory > General > ABC News |
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US scientists puncture the ethanol biofuel bubble Crop switch likely to increase emissions Good science news (or bad, depending on your point of view) has arrived with two reports on the carbon footprint of biofuels, in the paper edition of Science magazine. They deal serious damage to the belief - which up to now has been driving the biofuel bu Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Biofuel airline flight from London The world's first commercial aircraft powered partly by biofuel takes to the skies. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Virgin Atlantic Biofuel Flight: Breakthrough or Greenwash? Sir Richard Branson hails his airline's biofuel test flight "a vital breakthrough." Environmentalists call it a meaningless PR stunt. Who's right? Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Biofuel, Partly From Nuts, Is Tested on an Airline Flight Virgin Atlantic Airways tested a jumbo jet on Sunday that was partly powered by a biofuel made from babassu nuts and coconut oil, a first for a commercial aircraft. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Virgin Atlantic Biofuel Flight: Breakthrough or Greenwash? Sir Richard Branson hails his airline's biofuel test flight "a vital breakthrough." Environmentalists call it a meaningless PR stunt. Who's right? Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Curbs Urged on Biofuel Subsidies as Food Costs Rise Paying farmers to grow crops for use as biofuel means they grow fewer food crops, causing prices for staples to rise, the Asian Development Bank says. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Curbs Urged on Biofuel Subsidies as Food Costs Rise Paying farmers to grow crops for use as biofuel means they grow fewer food crops, causing prices for staples to rise, the Asian Development Bank says. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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UN urges biofuel investment halt The UN's new food adviser urges a freeze on biofuel investment and condemns "foodstuff speculation". Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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Food Report Criticizes Biofuel Policies - New York Times Mirror.co.ukFood Report Criticizes Biofuel PoliciesNew York Times - 18 hours agoBy ANDREW MARTIN Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer is preparing to walk into a buzzsaw of criticism over American biofuels policy when he meets with world leaders to discuss the global Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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UN warns on biofuel crop reliance UN chief Ban Ki-moon warns the world's leading economies not to invest too heavily in biofuel crops at the expense of food production. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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My biofuel road trip: Hot as hell, eco-friendly I was stranded in the Arizona desert in my broken-down truck wondering if I had made a big mistake: Our CNN.com biofuel road trip seemed doomed to fail. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNN |