Biofuels face increased scrutiny - 09 Jul 08

[AlchemistofFlame]

maaannnn, we don't use around 70% of our lands that are ready to produce (I mean, the ones with no forest and all the stuff hypocritical countries like to say...), and we throw away almost 50% of food we produce, there is no way to say that biofuel is going to spoil food production, if today the world face high prices about food it's due to the high prices of petrol, wich makes more expensive the transportation of aliments, and because of north american and european agricultural subsidies

[Rogerioapsandrade]

so much hipocrisy ! Brazil can produce both (food and biofuel) without harming the environment. The environmental problems in Brazil are related basically to cattle rising and wood illegal chopping and trade. It´s irritating to see these people from the Northern Nations who doesn´t know about Brazil trying to pretend they know something.

[sheepwshotguns]

runs on hydrogen? hmm... what about flammability? i would hope its not going to take out half a block if the car were in a collision...

[Gorillan08]

BLAH BLAH BLAH same ol BS. Hey did you know that you can get 40 barrels of HEMP OIL from an Acre of HEMP aka Marijuana, Cannabis Sativa. How is that for sustainable.

[mynewschannel]

Drive or Dine. That's really going to hurt MacDonald's drive thru's :))

[jotunobsidianeyes]

That's why we need to invest in cellulose ethanol and algae based biodiesel and ethanol. We'd get the biofuel and not have to give up food.

[WorldTravelTV]

You don't need a breakthrough, solar, hydrogen, geothermal, electric, etc...already power small cities around the world. Take a look at the BMW Hydrogen 7, Tesla Motors.

What you need is people to demand it, you need someone to take a good look at it. Did anyone say: Lets wait for an "oil" breakthrough? No, people invested in it, and then more improvements came.

[EsotericDesi]

At least one nation's working on developing such technology. Unlike USA's car industry that bought off entire US Government and silenced all opposition to its fuel guzzling cars. I hope GMC and Ford shut down because of their greed. I feel no mercy toward both companies since they are responsible for suffering of America today when it comes to reliance on foreign oil by making the least efficient and the biggest cars, SUVs and Hummers with highest possible level of disregard for the future.

[HymerSchmidt]

If we're going to do the biofuel thing, it's going to be by algae. It probably sequesters as much CO2 as when combusted, but it also doesn't require land that would be otherwise used. And it doesn't have to be watered! It grows like mad everywhere.

We desperately need a breakthrough in H and solar.

[GuyInvincible111]

According to the historian Robert Marcks, industrialization became possible exactly because we learned to escape the limits imposed by the energy available by a "solar regime". By using coal and oil, we could harvest millions of years of solar energy in a few decades. Can improved technology capture enough solar energy to keep modern society going?

[DarkerOfTheMind]

Cheap food or cheap fuel.

[lastnymleft]

"Cheap food or cheap fuel."

Why choose? You can have cheap both...if you get rid of the Fed.

It is the Fed that is largely (~80%) responsible for the oil crisis, and the food crises. Anything traded internationally in USD is skyrocketing in price because the USD is collapsing. It's collapsing because Bernanke and Greenspan have been flooding the world with USD to try to prop up an unsustainable US economy. Every dollar they create out of thin air makes every dollar in existence less valuable.

[DarkerOfTheMind]

Very true, very true... it is just getting rid of the fed that is the problem.

[raulitech]

biofuel is actually solar powered, though most dont realise. the sun helps grow plants, the plants take the carbon dioxide from burning any fuel that emit it, and your back to biofuel again. but i agree the biofuel industry is putting pressure on food supplies, to a small degree at least.

[Renegen1]

In Brazil the Amazone is being destroyed to grow biofuel, it's hypocrisy to say it helps CO2 levels. It's purely commercial.

[Rogerioapsandrade]

It´s an absurd statement. Sugarcane crops raised for biofuel production are thousands of kilometers away from the Amazon. No biofuel is produced there. Biofuel is produced in the Central and SouthEast regions, far from the Nothern (Amazonic) region. Brazil produces biofuel without harming food production and the environment (as opposed to other countries who don´t have similar technology)