Sarah Lyutse of the NRDC reports as follows: Last week, NRDC released a new fact sheet on the VEETC, highlighting how our government’s biggest incentive program for biofuels has almost exclusively supported the production of corn ethanol which, when all direct and indirect costs are added, creates more global warming pollution than the oil it [...]
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Evidence of the causality links that have prevailed in 13 advanced economies over the 1980–2004 period has been obtained through dynamic panel models. Our findings confirm that government R&D spending is not sufficient by itself to boost the energy innovation process. Public energy R&D has been successful in improving energy efficiency at country level, but [...] The Growth Energy publicity juggernaut ceaselessly reminds us that, at 10 percent blends of ethanol, the US can absorb only about 13 billion gallons of ethanol before it has nowhere to market its ethanol fuel, given the tepid distribution options for E85.But even were the US EPA to approve E15 ethanol blending, there are some [...] At first blush, Earth appears to have power to spare. The total power from sunlight striking the ground is a whopping 101,000 terawatts, and experts estimate that we could capture enough of that to exceed by a wide margin the 15 terawatts of power that the world’s population now consumes. But sunshine and other forms [...] Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are the most widely used renewable energy policy in the world for driving accelerating renewable energy (RE) deployment, accounting for a greater share of RE development than either tax incentives or renewable portfolio standard (RPS) policies…This policymaker’s guide provides a detailed analysis of FIT policy design and implementation and identifies a set [...] Full UNEP Report Towards sustainable production and use of resources: Assessing Biofuels France, IEA Bioenergy, part of the International Energy Agency, has published its report “Status of 2nd Generation Biofuels Demonstration Facilities in June 2010”, as a report to IEA Bioenergy Task 39.The 126-page report includes extensive data on thermo-chemical processing technologies, biochemical (enzymatic) biofuels systems and hybrid technologies, and is a near-definitive report on advanced biofuels [...] |
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