“As more and more food is used to fuel cars, it is increasingly clear that biofuel use in the world’s richest countries, including G8 nations, is contributing to global food price rises and world hunger.” ActionAid and other charities are meeting in the UK in June during the G8 summit, where they will ask David [...]
In the current issue of Scientific American, there is an article with nice multiple graphics to educate people about today’s higher cost of producing energy as measured by the EROI. Energy return on investment (EROI) is the value used to represent the energy obtained per unit of energy spent to obtain it. The article titled, [...]
Corn oil is a new favorite product at ethanol plants. Same song, second verse. The EIA reported earlier this week, that ethanol plants are responding to the difficult market conditions by adding corn oil to their production schemes which improves their margins. “POET Biorefining in Macon, Missouri, and Abengoa in Madison, Illinois, may add corn [...]
