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Scientists Warn Against Sudden Shift to Biofuels; Climate May be Harmed, not Helped

8/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) Scientists have increasingly warned that a hasty switch from fossil fuels to biofuels may actually accelerate global warming rather than helping to avert it, leading U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown to declare his opposition to new European...

Using Land to Grow Biofuels a Net Loss for Environment

8/17/2008 - (NaturalNews) The production and use of biofuels such as ethanol would contribute to global warming more than simply using gasoline, according to two studies published in the journal Science. One study, conducted by a scientist from the Nature Conservancy...

The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human Population

4/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) 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...

Biofuels worse for the environment than fossil fuels, study warns

10/11/2007 - (NaturalNews) Far from being a solution to the global ecological crisis induced by fossil fuels, biofuels may "offer a cure that is worse than the disease they seek to cure," a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...

Global switch to biofuels could spike food prices and harm the environment

10/2/2007 - (NaturalNews) A worldwide spike in biofuels production could do more harm than good if managed improperly, according to a report released by UN-Energy, an interagency body of the United Nations devoted to developing plans for sustainable energy systems,...

Biofuel production is economical even when importing the raw materials Energy & Fuels (press release)

11/21/2006 - Liquid fuels can be produced economically from biomass right now even if all the raw materials - such as grasses and wood - must be imported from other countries. Robin Zwart and colleagues in The Netherlands reach that conclusion in a study in the current...

Fast-Growing Trees Could Take Root as Future Energy Source (press release)

10/16/2006 - A tree that can reach 90 feet in six years and be grown as a row crop on fallow farmland could represent a major replacement for fossil fuels. Purdue University researchers...

Researchers identify energy gains and environmental impacts of corn ethanol and soybean biodiesel (press release)

9/12/2006 - The first comprehensive analysis of the full life cycles of soybean biodiesel and corn grain ethanol shows that biodiesel has much less of an impact on the environment and a much higher net energy benefit than corn ethanol, but that neither can do much...

Crops being engineered for biofuels production, but ecological concerns persist

9/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) Biofuels are just one renewable energy source being considered as the price of fossil fuels continues to soar, but a group of scientists has taken the idea one step further by developing genetically engineered crops for use as biofuels. The...

Scotland takes lead in biofuel technology (press release)

8/24/2006 - A new green fuels initiative which could power up to 5,000 family cars per year was launched today. The initiative, which is the first of its kind in the UK, is being piloted across the east coast of Scotland and will involve local farmers using biosolids...

Biodiversity key to sustainable biofuel according to University of Minn. researcher's findings (press release)

7/17/2006 - Ecosystems containing many different plant species are not only more productive, they are also better able to withstand and recover from climate extremes, pests and disease over long periods of time. ...

Producing biofuel from plants uses more energy than it produces

7/6/2006 - (NaturalNews) A joint study from the University of Cornell and the University of Berkeley has uncovered evidence that producing biodiesel from plants such as maize and sunflower uses up more energy than the resulting fuel produces. Hot on the heels...

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