Biofuels


Programme: A greener future with biofuels?

March 1, 2009 in Biofuels

In this months’s Comment Visions, we discuss the hot topic of whether biofuels are an ecologically-sound solution to the world’s increasing energy needs, or a potentially disastrous cause of deforestation and food shortages.

Dr Jeremy Woods, Lecturer in Biofuels at Imperial College London, believes that there are many challenges facing the world when it comes to energy in years to come, and also that biofuels will be a major factor in dealing with them, if it is managed properly.

Can bioethanol and biodiesel power the world of the future? Comment Visions meets Dr Woods at the British Sugar factory in Wissington, Norfolk, to find out.

Discussion: What role should biofuels play in our future energy mix?

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Programme: Food, Fuel and Biodiversity

August 1, 2008 in Biofuels

They were touted as the environmentally-sound and sustainable solution to fossil fuels, but in recent years biofuels have become one of the most controversial topics in the broader debate over the planet’s energy needs.

Professor José Esquinas-Alcázar is a Spanish scientist specialising in biodiversity. With background in plant genetics he has been a champion of policies promoting genetic diversity. As the cost and effects of the increase in biofuel production continues to make headlines and demand research, Euronews talks to Professor Esquinas about global interdependence, the need to protect against overreliance on certain crops and the future of the planet’s delicate ecological balance.

Discussion: Do we know enough about biofuels to encourage increased production as many governments are doing?

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