{"id":384,"date":"2010-05-19T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2010-05-19T21:57:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:27:22","slug":"biofuels-from-crops-answer-to-climate-change-and-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2010\/05\/19\/biofuels-from-crops-answer-to-climate-change-and-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"BioFuels from Crops – Answer to Climate Change and Global Warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biofuels were all the rage during the Bush administration which mandated the use of biofuels for the Transportation Industry.It led to a huge boom in biofuel stocks like Verasun,Pacific Ethanol due to a confluence of positive factors like a) Increasing Oil Prices\u00a0 b) Regulatory Action c) Low Raw Material Prices.However Biofuels from Crops can never be\u00a0 a meaningful answer to the problems of Climate Change and Global Warming due to the fact that<\/p>\n

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  1. A large part of the world’s 6 billion population lives in hunger<\/li>\n
  2. Water and Land needed for Crops are becoming a Scarce Resource as per capita consumption and population both rise<\/li>\n
  3. Inevitable Increase in Crop Prices increases the Raw Material prices<\/li>\n
  4. Growing Demand for Biofuels lead to deforestation perversely contributing to Global Warming<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I think governmental support for biofuels is totally misdirected just like it is for Carbon Sequestration.Both Solutions contribute to the Problem rather than being a Solution.I think both of these approaches have a very limited use in solving the Climate Change problem.<\/p>\n

    Limited biofuel land compatible with food -industry-\u00a0 Reuters<\/a><\/h3>\n

    A large but limited amount of land can be used to provide plant-based fuel without cutting the world’s food supply, environmentalists and consultants told a global biofuels gathering on Wednesday.Martina Fleckenstein of the World Wild Fund for Nature said the WWF estimated 380-450 million hectares could be sustainably planted for fuel feedstocks, alongside 1.6 billion ha needed to guarantee the world’s food supply.<\/p>\n

    Estimates on how much of the world’s energy supply could be met by biofuels varied widely.Hamelinck predicted 50 percent, while Enrique Cerda, a professor of genetics at Seville University, said data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization showed biofuels could only provide 3 percent of the total energy supply.Hamelinck urged biofuel manufacturers to use raw materials grown with sustainable water supplies, and without eroding soil or using land needed to maintain biodiversity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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