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Biofuel for the flames
Are biofuels a core solution? |
Joseph Romm |
18 Jul 2008 |
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| As part of my ongoing series on core climate solutions (see links below), let's examine biofuels. If we are going to avoid catastrophic climate outcomes, we need some 11 'stabilization wedges' from 2015 to 2040. So if you want to be a core climate solution, you need to be able to generate a large fraction of a wedge in a climate-constrained world. And that is a staggering amount of low-carbon energy. Princeton's Socolow and Pacala describe one wedge of biofuel in ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, biofuels, population (all these topics) |
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