Translate AMICOR contents if you like

Friday, October 23, 2009

Environmental Cost of Biofuels

Biofuel

Tallying the Real Environmental Cost of Biofuels

William Radcliffe / Science Faction / Corbis


The promise of biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil. Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the U.S. in 2008, while countries like Brazil have already widely replaced gasoline with ethanol from sugar cane and countless start-ups are working to bring cellulosic and other second-generation biofuels to market. The reasoning is that if we use greener biofuels in place of gasoline, it will significantly enhance our effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

No comments: