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 Stories About: ag policy AND agriculture AND biofuels AND cellulosic ethanol AND energy AND ethanol AND politics
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Cellulosic ethanol: not likely to be viable
New study from mainstream ag economists at Iowa State |
Tom Philpott |
03 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Cellulosic ethanol represents a beacon on the horizon -- the justification cited by wiseguys like Vinod Khosla for dropping billions per year in public cash to prop up corn ethanol production. Corn ethanol, you see, is a bridge to a bright cellulosic future. But the beacon is looking more and more like a mirage, a ghost, a specter; the bridge we're hurtling down may well lead to a chasm. A quiet consensus seems to be forming among people you'd think would know th ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics) |
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A Bridge to Somewhere?
What we've learned from the biofuels series |
Tom Philpott |
15 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Future or folly? Photo: iStockphoto After spending much of the last several months thinking about the biofuels boom and its implications in preparation for this special series, we've come to a few conclusions. Like other energy sources, biofuels have significant environmental liabilities. Boosters' rhetoric about "renewable energy" aside, topsoil -- from which biofuel feedstocks spring -- is ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics) |
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The Big Three
The numbers behind ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, and biodiesel in the U.S. |
Maywa Montenegro |
04 Dec 2006 |
Main Dish |
| America devours oil like no other country in the world. Representing 5 percent of the global population, the country consumes fully a quarter of the world's oil. Every year, to move ourselves and our goods around, we burn 140 billion gallons of gasoline and 40 billion gallons of diesel -- enough to propel the average U.S. car around the world 1.6 billion times. But rising price ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, biofuels, cellulosic ethanol, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics) |
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