biofuel carbon emissions
By Nathanael Baker on May 17, 2012
Tags: Biofuels, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tanzania, Thailand, United States, biodiesel, biofuel carbon emissions, biofuel industry, Brazil biofuel, corn-based ethanol, Deforestation, ethanol, first generation biofuels, food vs. fuel, jatropha, land-use change, U.S. biofuel, California, energy, European Union, food, J. Mason Earles, manufacturing, oil, transportation, University of California
As governments roll out public policy directing increased biofuel production for all sectors of the transportation industry, serious questions around environmental sustainability still remain.
By Nathanael Baker on May 17, 2011
Tags: algal biofuel, biofuel carbon emissions, biofuel greenhouse gas emissions, biofuel life-cycle research, food vs. fuel debate, jatropha, MIT biofuel study, palm oil, rapeseed, soybean biofuel, biofuels, electricity, food, James Hileman, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, oil
After performing a life-cycle analysis of 14 fuel sources, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have determined carbon emissions from biofuels vary greatly depending on the type of land used to produce the feedstocks.
