Fuelling change
Time reports on increasing evidence that biofuels may not be the eco-friendly solution to oil dependence that they are made out to be. Not only do they result in land being used to grow fuel rather than food, but the planting of these crops causes large-scale destruction of vegetation. While good land management practices can help alleviate this, it can’t solve all the problems. However, the next question then becomes: if not biofuels, what else? Alternative solutions such as vastly expensive hydrogen power networks are unrealistic in the short- to medium-term, and so we may have to accept that, when weighed up against oil, biofuels are the lesser of two evils.
Time magazine’s report on biofuel concerns is here.
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