How to be Fuel and Food Rich under Climate Change

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How to be Fuel and Food Rich under Climate Change

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Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:14:13 +0100

 

 

 

 

 

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How to be Fuel and Food Rich under Climate Change

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Dr. Mae-Wan Ho rejects solutions offered by governments and

tells us how to survive the climate change and energy crisis

in style

 

Governments spinning for the next big solution

 

The end of cheap fossil fuels and the rapidly widening gap

between supply and demand have sent our governments into a

tailspin for the next big solution. Tony Blair wants to give

Britain nuclear power, and you've heard Peter Saunders on

why not ( " Nuclear power: A leap into the dark energy chasm " ,

this series).

 

George W. Bush is offering the United States biofuels:

ethanol from corn, sugarcane and hopefully, wood biomass;

and biodiesel from soybeans, sunflower and other oil seeds

( " Biofuels for oil addicts " , SiS 29).

 

A " billion ton vision " was unveiled [1] to make available

1.3 billion tons of dry biomass for the biofuels industry by

the middle of this century, to provide 30 percent of the

country's fuel use. It comes with all kinds of optimistic

assumptions, such as a fifty percent increase in crop yield.

 

Europe, too, has set a target of 5.75 percent of EU's

transport fuel as biofuels by 2010, increasing to 8 percent

by 2015.

 

Biofuels Corporation plc is here in Britain. The first 250

000 Mt biodiesel processing plant is nearing completion at

Seal Sands Middlebrough on the northeast coast of England,

and it will be using vegetable oil crops [2].

 

 

 

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