Comment:Visions » Biofuels http://www.commentvisions.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:05:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Biofuels: challenges and opportunities http://www.commentvisions.com/2011/05/02/topics/alternative-energies/biofuels/biofuels-challenges-and-opportunities/ http://www.commentvisions.com/2011/05/02/topics/alternative-energies/biofuels/biofuels-challenges-and-opportunities/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 02:17:05 +0000 Robert Zlokower http://www.commentvisions.com/?p=4690 Biofuels are in an ambiguous position in the field of sustainable energy, and in this programme we focus on their production in an effort to understand how they can be made, what impact they have on the environment, and how they should develop in the future. Dismissed outright by some environmentalists as a polluting threat to the natural environment, biofuels are also championed by others as a necessary product to feed demand for low-carbon fuels in shipping, aviation and road freight.

]]> http://www.commentvisions.com/2011/05/02/topics/alternative-energies/biofuels/biofuels-challenges-and-opportunities/feed/ 51 The thorny question of biofuels http://www.commentvisions.com/2010/11/01/other/the-thorny-question-of-biofuels/ http://www.commentvisions.com/2010/11/01/other/the-thorny-question-of-biofuels/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:51:59 +0000 Editor http://www.commentvisions.com/?p=2889 To overcome dwindling oil supplies and to reduce greenhouse gases, we can derive our transportation fuels from plants. But environmentalists argue biofuels encourage unsustainable agriculture and sacrifice food for fuel. So, are biofuels really the green saviour?

]]> http://www.commentvisions.com/2010/11/01/other/the-thorny-question-of-biofuels/feed/ 32 A greener future with biofuels? http://www.commentvisions.com/2009/03/01/topics/alternative-energies/biofuels/a-greener-future-with-biofuels/ http://www.commentvisions.com/2009/03/01/topics/alternative-energies/biofuels/a-greener-future-with-biofuels/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:27:02 +0000 Editor http://www.commentvisions.com/?p=76 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.

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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.

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