Sustainable Biofuels: A Guest Post by Colin Forrest

Everyone is rightly banging on about the destruction and havoc caused by mass monocultures of crops for biofuels for transport fuels. This is driven largely by fears of peak oil. Yes there are loads of alternative energy sources, but we are stumped for sufficient alternatives for liquid transport fuels, and that’s what is worrying governments: demand reduction, energy efficiency, electrification of rail and trams, biodiesel and ethanol, that’s about it. You can make oil out of coal but its costly.

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