Biofuels: run buses on old cooking oil - Stagecoach. Future of Public Transport Speaker - keynote

http://www.globalchange.com Innovation using old cooking oil to drive buses or cars or lorries. Future energy industry keynote. Future of public transport energy efficiency and Stagecoach innovation in energy saving, reducing carbon footprint. Why biofuel industry using food is dead -- converting food into oil is stupid and immoral but converting used cooking oil is a good thing. Biodiesel, biomass, biowaste and sugar to fuel conversion. Ethanol and gasoline or petrol mix, European Union EU poliy changes on biofuel and biowaste. Policy reversal. Anti-biofuel capaigns. Food riots, hunger, food shortages, rising food prices, whet prices, food hoarding and stockpiles. Speculation in food futures. Link oil price to food price. Starvation, Africa Asia, India, China. Competition for food -- poor people cannot eat, food prices rise, burning wheat in car engines, driving vehicles, adding ethanol to petrol / gasoline. Biodiesel, soybean price rises, rise price rises, food riots, destruction of forests for agriculture. Other reasons for rising food prices: drought, crop failure, hoarding, ban on food exports, stockpiling of food, speculation on food commodities markets. Ethics of biomass fuel generation and increased use of fertilisers. Net consumption or saving of CO2 / energy. Global trade in food, oil and energy. Ethical crisis in biofuels. Federal government policy and national energy policy. EU fuel regulations for ethanol, biodiesel and biomass fuel generation. Economy, global warming, energy conservation and real estate industry. Environment, environmental change, climate change. Risks in real estate development. Operational and management risks and role of a Futurist. What is a Futurist? Market research limitations and customer expectations, client demands. Business management video comment about successful Stagecoach innovation by Dr Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker lecture, author of Futurewise and Building a Better Business.
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• energy
• saving
• biofuels
• biowaste
• public
• transport
• bus
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• road
• haulage
• cars
• warming
• carbon
• emissions
• biodiesel
• fuel
• Environment
• global
• power
• climate
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[BillDFC]

I followed a Stagecoach bus with an advert on the back encouraging people to use the bus and save the planet..

The huge bus struggled through narrow,busy streets causing chaos before it eventually stopped beside another EMPTY bus.

Even with free subsidised travel for the over 60's nobody uses the dirty gas guzzlers.

Get them off the road unless they can pay their own way.

[pjvdixon]

@BillDFC Interesting! Bus and train travel is booming in the recession.

[pjvdixon]

Thanks - yes loads of biofuels and climate change innovation in UK. Patrick Dioxn

[johnghuk]

Less CO2 in the atmosphere would be better, but the issue is not simply about how much CO2 bio or fossil fuels release, it's about where that carbon came from.

Biofuel is made from carbon taken from the atmosphere & stored by plants.

That carbon was already *in* the atmosphere, before the plant stored it.

When you extract & burn fossil fuels you're releasing extra carbon that had been trapped safely away underground for millions of years, so are increasing the total carbon in the atmosphere.

[johnghuk]

The fact that climate change is already happening is no excuse to make it worse & do nothing about making it better. If you worry about farming destroying ecosystems then boycott all products with soya in them.

Growing fuel increases food prices when it means there are less farmers to grow food. Less food being grown pushes food prices up.

Using cooking oil to run engines after it's been cooked with won't increase food prices. It can even reduce demand on farmers to grow fuel instead of food.

[Finnbar01]

Look Climate change is happening. Whether we like it or not. It is a natural process and it has happened before ( which we've got through) and it will happen again ( which we'll get through again). Biofuels cause more CO2 than fossil fuels, they've destroyed millions of acres of ecosystems, increased food prices and let millions more to starve. AGW is another psuedo-religions cooked up by the sad leftist looney tunes who are just looking for an excuse tyo run down the west and capitalism.

[Nkatsikanis]

Its amazing how much oil you can throw away when your chip pan starts looking lukky.

[hellyersonline]

it's good to hear of real innovation happening here in the UK