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To underline the point, he made his announcement in front of a fighter jet that flies on a mixture of biofuels.

"More research is needed to determine the right proportion of agricultural resources to be used for biofuels, " he told SciDev. Net.

The company also wants to make sure that future legislative definitions of biofuels are broad enough to include algae.

Also, because much of the energy used in production comes from coal and natural gas, biofuels don't replace as much oil as they use.

Among the countries which could lose out in the future if biofuels catch on is Venezuela, one of the world's largest oil exporters.

Land used in the production of biofuels often replaces much-needed farmland or is cut out of important ecosystems around the world.

The United States and Brazil are already working in several Central American countries to help those countries develop biofuels systems.

And who would have thought that scientists trying to cure malaria could come up with breakthroughs in biofuels?

But the summit did nothing to improve the operation of world markets or to cut biofuels subsidies.

One way to release useful energy from plant matter is to ferment it into biofuels, as Synthetic Genomics, LS9 and Amyris are trying to do.

"Opec has nothing to fear. Even in the most optimistic scenarios, the contribution from biofuels would be very small, " Mr Mandil said.

Biofuels like ethanol grew in popularity during the Bush administration as a cure for the U. S. 's oil addiction.

The debate of crops for food versus crops for biofuels remains one of the major problems yet to be resolved in the sector.

The evidence against ethanol is clear. Now the White House is betting on the next generation of biofuels.

Indeed Rex Tillerson, the firm's chief executive, once humorously referred to biofuels as "moonshine" .

The one renewable-energy source it still seems to be serious about is biofuels.

We might try to tap biofuels, but only in forms that do not compete with food supplies or with precious environmental assets.

Biofuels, including ethanol and biodiesel, will continue to chip away at demand in the world's largest consumer of motor fuels, he said.

One of the biggest and most controversial issues in the food security debate that will likely not be addressed is the role of biofuels.

"Biofuels are an important part of reducing America's dependence on foreign oil, " he said.

Biofuels may be the most visible tip of commercial synthetic biology but a vast number of other applications beckon.

On the face of it, biofuels look like a great solution.

In addition to solar, the division also manufactures products for the wind, geothermal and biofuels energy markets.

Defenders of solar subsidies point out that, unlike those on biofuels, they do not actually take food from the plates of the hungry.

Energy accounts for a third of the cost of grain production and oil prices are increasing demand for biofuels.

Mr. Yergin devotes a large chunk of his book to renewable sources of energy: wind, direct sunlight, biofuels and hydropower, among others.

and ensure that biofuels make up at least 10% of fuels used for transport.

At the moment, most biofuels are either ethanol, usually made from sugarcane or maize, or biodiesel, made from plant oils.

Professor Luo said converting waste oil into biofuels or animal feed would be an appropriate way to dispose of it.

And the USDA did not account for new demand for biofuels or likely changes in production practices.

Most of the land bought up so far will be used to produce biofuels and other industrial crops.

Biofuels from corn and plant waste came right at the bottom of the list, along with nuclear power and "clean" coal.

Congress has decreed that the country must be using 21 billion gallons of "advanced" biofuels a year by 2022.

There's also further research suggesting that fertiliser used to grow biofuels can also be a significant source of greenhouse gases.

Biofuels as well as wind and solar still need energy prices to be high to help them claw their way to profitability.

How you go about ensuring that you get 'good' biofuels is the absolute critical priority for policy-making at the moment.

World green (grain) supplies are low and need to be refuel [refilled], and food crops are been (being) used to make biofuels.

So, if all goes well , they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels .

The ICSU report concludes that, so far, the production of biofuels has aggravated rather than ameliorated global warming.

Biofuels have been backed by governments as one of the key ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The green message has also been carried by the Navy's famous Blue Angels seen demonstrating the power of biofuels at a recent air show.

And America is only one of 41 countries where governments are encouraging the use of biofuels to reduce oil consumption.

So if you want low-carbon flying, drop-in biofuels are the only game in town.

Producing biofuels sustainably is now a target and this latest work has been greeted by experts as an encouraging step.

A headlong rush for biofuels might have similar effects.

Someone tells me that the EU is conspiring to ensure that more rainforest can be converted to plantations in order to grow biofuels.

"To put it mildly, [converting food crops to biofuels] is foolish, to put it strongly it is a crime against humanity, " Mr Chidambaram said.

First-generation biofuels derive from edible biomass, primarily corn and soybeans (in the U. S. ) and sugarcane (in Brazil).

This research promises to more efficiently eliminate contaminants generated during the thermochemical production of biofuels.

Biofuel has been a buzzward in green political circles for a long time, but are biofuels truly a sustainable solution?

World grain supplies are low and need to be refilled, and food crops are being used to make biofuels.

In principle, biofuels are attractive replacements for liquid fossil fuels used in transport that generate greenhouse gases.

But the final declaration called only for in-depth study to make sure biofuels do not threaten food security.

Second, the U. S. and Europe should abandon their policies of paying partly for the change of food into biofuels.

We've now formed a company called Amyris, and this technology that they're using can be used to make better biofuels.

A coalition of some of the largest agribusinesses in the world has formed a new group to lobby the U. S. government on biofuels.

The United States' agriculture secretary, Ed Schafer, talked about the benefits of biofuels and genetically modified crops.

But Shell acknowledges that second-generation biofuels, contrary to earlier optimistic forecasts, could take as long as a decade to develop.

Though small compared with the increase required to feed the additional 2 billion people, the biofuels' premium is still substantial.

But they also raise pressing issues that need addressing before biofuels become widespread around the world, and in Africa in particular.

If biofuels do take off, environmentalists and policymakers will still be unable to relax.

Sugarcane and switchgrass are unlikely to fuel the next plane you ride, but Boeing Co. Says development of biofuels is gaining momentum.

The non-governmental organization ActionAid says biofuels are responsible for as much as one-third of the recent increase in food prices.

Electricity can be produced by wind, sunlight, biomass or nuclear reactors, and cars can be powered by biofuels and electricity.

But biofuels from crops specifically planted to be transformed into energy are clearly the wrong answer.

The environmental and social costs of producing biofuels on land can be avoided by farming seaweed, says Ricardo Radulovich.

"There are good medium-term reasons to think that the biofuels price shock will pass, " he said.

So has Brazil, especially for bioethanol. Biofuels are near the top of development agenda in the country.

on the other side, policy makers were promoting production and consumption of biofuels, through a series of tax credits and incentives.

But even more of a glutton for grain is the new darling of farmers, politicians and agribusiness: biofuels.

U. S. dependence on imported energy continues to reach record levels while no commercially viable biofuels have been produced.

Rising global demand for food and biofuels adds even more to the heat. So will climate change.

Even environmentalists are calling for a halt to government subsidies and mandates on biofuels.

Failed attempts to combat climate change, in the form of subsidies for biofuels, have also made the situation worse.

Critics argue that the cultivation of crops for biofuels is taking good land away from food production and causing prices to rise.

But the next generation of biofuels made from agricultural waste shows real promise.

Delegates at the summit also discussed the contentious issue of biofuels, recognizing that there are both "challenges and opportunity. "

The use of biofuels has already been tested by Boeing and several other airlines around the world have recently trialled similar flights.

The goal of increasing the amount of biofuels blended with the national petro-fuel supply is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Initially, many policymakers championed biofuels as indubitably beneficial.

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates biofuels have contributed to about 10 per cent of the current price rise.

So the biofuels issue has been kicked into the long grass of "more studies needed" .

The Ethiopian government says it plans to produce biofuels to cut oil import bills, dismissing fears the strategy could hit food production.

The EU plans strict criteria to ensure biofuels do not do more harm than good.

We shouldn't be under any illusion that making petrol from cellulose is a solution to all the problems of the first generation of biofuels.

Executives at Neste, a big Finnish refiner, doubt Europe's output of biofuels can expand fast enough to meet the EU's target.

The company is working on ways to bioengineer better, cleaner and more efficient biofuels.

The flight follows international regulators' approval in July of the commercial use such aviation biofuels.

Oil firms, carmakers, power generators, nervous of being outmanoeuvred, are jacking up their investments in renewables and biofuels.

Biofuels are fuels made from food crops or other organic materials, like farm wastes.

Biofuels are fuels made from food crops or other organic materials, like farm wastes.

They reckon Africa is the best place to grow biofuels, and the one that will lead to most carbon capture in the long run.

The micro-algae thrive on carbon dioxide, producing food for livestock as well as biofuels and material for plastics.

And government biofuels policies that have increased the demand for corn have encouraged farmers to plant more.

As long as energy prices remain high, biofuels will compete with food for land and water across the globe.

That means investing in clean, alternative sources of energy, like advanced biofuels and natural gas.

Advocates say that promoting jatropha for biofuels production has little impact on food supplies.

It is not surprising that the summit did little about biofuels, export bans or social-safety nets (which it hardly discussed).

There are mind-boggling concessions to the biofuels industry, including a promise not to investigate its wider environmental impacts.

Other groups, including Toronto-based Energy Probe, have reached similarly damning conclusions about biofuels.

If cellulose can be turned into biofuel, it could be more efficient than current biofuels, and emit less carbon dioxide.

The push for biofuels is one of many programs under way to meet those goals.

We're pursuing biofuels, particularly ethanol from non-food sources because we recognise dependence on corn ethanol has its limitations.

And experts believe that if we pump biofuels like E85 into a plug-in hybrid car, we can actually get up to 500 miles per gallon of gasoline.

he says nations have to balance the production of biofuel from food crops with biofuels from nonfood resources.

The demonstration plant will develop processes to produce renewable biofuels from wood residues .

Talk of the mass production of biofuels in Africa is premature, but advances have been made.

address the economic, social and environmental implications of widespread production, use and trade in biofuels.

Seventh, we need action in the US and Europe to ease subsidies, mandates and tariffs on biofuels that are derived from corn and oilseeds.

The methods described herein are able to efficiently convert cellular lipids to biofuels from lipid- containing biomass such as algae.

And now the evidence is piling up that biofuels may be even worse for the environment than the gasoline they're meant to replace.

"The big labour input needed for processing straws could also dampen farmers' zeal to use biofuels, " Jin told SciDev. Net.

Additionally, increasing the production of biofuels could drive down biological diversity.

Whoever cracks the hidden secrets of protein folding will push us that much closer to new antibiotics, cancer treatments, and biofuels.

In the period of World War II, the high demand of biofuels was due to the increased use as an alternative for imported fuel.

Hardly a revolutionary business strategy, but one that the American biofuels industry has, to date, eschewed.

Other causes of the rise are the increased demand for meat and the diversion of food into biofuels.

There has been plenty of promising research into using fast-growing algae to produce sustainable biofuels.

Whether biofuels will ever be competitive with fossil fuels remains to be seen.

But discoveries of huge petroleum deposits kept gasoline and diesel cheap for decades, and biofuels were largely forgotten.

That will drive investments in wind and solar power and next generation biofuels from grasses and agricultural waste.

Misguided subsidies, on everything from biofuels to mortgage interest, have distorted markets.

Ideally, biofuels would be made from waste farm products rather than crops.

It has also increased its focus on biofuels made from, among other things, algae and wood chips.

The price of oil may fall; but so will the price of biofuels, as innovation improves crops, manufacturing processes and fuels.

Over the long run, the future for biofuels may be looking up.

Tar sands and biofuels represent only a small part of global energy use.

Von Braun recommended that rich nations invest more in research into the impact of biofuels and the threat posed by climate change.

The growing demand for biofuels has worsened Argentina's ecological and social problems by providing new markets for GM RR soy and maize.

This list focuses on scientific research; USP is becoming a world leader in tropical medicine, parasitology and biofuels.

Another company has started producing a precursor to synthetic diesel in Brazil (Searching for Biofuels' Sweet Spot).

Where the effects of bad policy are clearest, however, is in the rise of demon ethanol and other biofuels.

Using crops like sugarbeet to make biofuels in dry regions must be abandoned.

Part of America's prairies, the firm hopes, will revert to grassland and provide the cellulose that biofuels will need.

This is increasingly making biofuels into a political issue throughout the world.

The new version challenges users to design completely novel proteins that could become tomorrow's HIV vaccines and biofuels.

The land is being used not only to grow food, but crops for biofuels as well.

So unless the world's fishing fleets covert to biofuels, there may be some hope for dealing with the subsidy of overfishing.

These difficulties don't mean advanced biofuels aren't coming, or that they won't play a crucial role in fighting climate change.

Worldwide, interest in biofuels is certainly growing, which will hopefully spur investments.

Also cutting into demand for traditional refined products are rising government mandates for biofuels.

He points out that America exports masses of wheat, soyabeans and corn, and talks of "convert[ing] those export acres to biofuels" .

Biofuels are neither a panacea nor a pariah but like all technologies they represent both opportunities and challenges.

During the 1990s, when oil was cheap and biofuels unheard of, demand grew by 1. 2% a year, according to Goldman Sachs.

Gibbons explains that the first generation of biofuels focused on using corn for ethanol and soybeans for biodiesel.

Biofuels, therefore, should not contribute to global warming.

Amrican policy makers, including President Barack Obama, are advocating biofuels to transform the transportation culture.

Indeed, even in the United States, worries exist about the impact of biofuels on the food supply.

Hydrogen can also be created from water using electrolysis and potentially even from biofuels.

When compared directly to each other, biofuels do release fewer harmful pollutants as a result of combustion.

But no company has yet demonstrated a cost-competitive industrial process for making cellulosic biofuels.

Some Asian governments, notably India and Thailand, have already said they want no food crops diverted into biofuels.

High oil prices have encouraged a policy focus on biofuels, including lashings of generous financial support.

The plan includes a call for the US and Europe to cut subsidies and tariffs on biofuels derived from corn and oilseeds.

United States is a big biofuels market and a dominant country in the research and development of advanced biofuels.

Biofuels will be part of that future.

Biofuels, another pressing topic, might be more sensibly discussed if Brazil, a big producer, were present.

Develop a common research project on assessing and improving GHG emissions performance of biofuels.

Biofuels are simply just not that efficient in the grand scheme of things, I don't care whether its corn or sugar or cellulosic!

Campaigners have long argued that corn ethanol's dominance has shut out efforts to develop a next generation of biofuels.

It's not that I'm saying don't go for biofuels. It's just that India and China are two water-short countries.

The last decade was characterized by the increased use of first generation biofuels.

Emphasising biofuels means less land for food production, leading to higher prices and hungry bellies.

In developing nations, biofuels already are commonly used, but as sources of domestic heating and cooking.

Biofuels, electricity, hydrogen and hybrids will replace the oil and diesel that now powers most vehicles.

Biofuels are near the top of development agenda in the country.

So it seems that biofuels might not be the best solution for weaning the world off oil.

And there's another buzzkill: A study at MIT recently showed that fossil fuels might actually be greener than the new biofuels.

This has made many investors take a keen interest in the production of biofuels in Africa.

New biofuels that compete less directly with food production would cut carbon emissions further.

The biofuels or batteries that will power cars in the alternative future should beat petrol at today's prices.

Mr. Timmer said that the recent rise in oil prices was likely to increase the demand for biofuels.

It plans to support projects in biomass, hydropower, wind, solar and geothermal energy and biofuels.

The dream of tackling climate change with biofuels has been tarnished by the rush to produce them on land.

Production of biofuels has been targeted by Western governments as a way to bolster renewable energy targets.

And it may affect Africa even if the continent does not enter the biofuels market.

He says growing demands for biofuels in the developing world are disrupting African agriculture.

But further out still are options like geothermal energy and biofuels, which might someday replace oil.

City officials in Oslo think so and are planning to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.

Simplistic approaches are unlikely to deliver a sustainable biofuels industry nor one that can contribute to the climate change challenge.

Biofuels entail their own special kind of environmental and economic disruption.

The government has halted approvals for new corn-based ethanol plants and is developing alternative biofuels using non-food crops.

In several countries mandates exist to include a fixed amount of biofuels in the overall energy mix.

Liquid biofuels include biodiesel derived from plant oils and bioethanol made from sugarcane, maize and other starchy crops.

But until those fuels do materialize, the tension between burgers and biofuels will continue.

In 2003, Brazilian automakers started producing flex-fuel cars that could run on biofuels, including locally produced ethanol.

A transition in transportation uses from oil to biofuels and increases in auto fuel efficiencies.

One much-discussed alternative is to feed the gas to algae and turn the algae into biofuels.

But the demand for biofuels in recent years is prompting some farmers, particularly in the Midwest, to switch to corn.

through investments in wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient American cars and American trucks.

Biofuels development in wealthier nations has already proved to have a powerful effect on the prices and the cultivation of crops.

Add in the new demand for biofuels, and what you get are high prices for food.

As a result, biofuels are making up a larger portion of the world's energy-supply gap than many analysts expected.

This includes tapping sustainable energy sources such as biofuels from non-food crops, or cellulosic ethanol. "The U. S. "

With hefty carbon emissions reduction targets to meet under the Kyoto protocols, Japan is turning to biofuels.

But it is important for bioenergy advocates to address the perception that biofuels mean higher food costs.

Another factor driving up food prices is the controversial biofuels industry.

And, at the moment, the majority of biofuels actually have very bad impact and they do little to combat climate change.

This covers solar thin-films, biofuels, coal-to-liquids, shale gas and smart grids, all with U. S. partners.

While most of the elements to make biofuels a global industry are in place, they need to evolve, Ms. Stark said.

World leaders on Thursday ended a summit on global food security without an agreement on biofuels.

This year biofuels will take a third of America's (record) maize harvest.

Biofuels are used globally. Biofuel industries are expanding in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

The European Union promises to push for biofuels promotion to prevent harming the environment or adding to greenhouse gas levels.

In the end, Jacques Diouf, head of the F. A. O. , said differences of opinion about biofuels were too wide to settle.

Since he was investigating biofuels, he enlisted his colleagues to look at coffee's potential.

A better understanding of the interaction between biofuels and climate change is therefore needed.

For grain prices to fall, Mr Currie argues, either governments must pull the plug on biofuels programmes, or the oil price must fall.

Could biofuels, in addition to easing the strain on the environment and on wallets, help to save American farms?

By reducing demand for petroleum , biofuels could make energy supply more secure.

Biofuels are renewable, and bioethanol and biodiesel are clean burning.

Compared with other renewable energies like solar energy, biofuels have an extremely high water footprint.

The largest impact of biofuels on greenhouse gas emissions is determined by land-use change.

Global production of biofuels consists primarily of ethanol.

Demand for biofuels in the US is driving this year's high food prices, a report has said.

Biofuels have not only diverted crops to fuel but have also diverted public subsidies to farmers without provoking too many objections.

This explains why there's a lot of effort going into things like biofuels and using electricity to produce hydrogen.

Verdezyne and Codexis focus on chemicals manufacturing while maintaining an interest in biofuels.

There will be a race to produce the most advanced batteries and biofuels.

USP is becoming a world leader in tropical medicine, parasitology and biofuels.

But you can base it on solar panels, wind turbines, smart biofuels and a massive program to weatherize every building and home in America.

Plans to switch land from food to biofuels should be urgently reviewed.

Biobutanol will be the first of those biofuels to reach global markets.

But Mr Schweitzer is right that Congress has some big decisions to make about biofuels.

Researchers say the discovery could lead to more efficient ways of breaking down plant biomass for generating biofuels.

The Cabinet members are soliciting specific proposals from industry on how to establish a commercially viable biofuels industry.

Cellulose biofuels have advantages over ethanol from corn and sugar cane.

Wood and its byproducts can be converted into biofuels such as woodgas, methanol or ethanol fuel.

"EU's Strategy for Biofuels" issued in 2006, defines the goals and critical policy measures for developing biofuels.

A drop in price, even a temporary one, could whack the beleaguered biofuels industry.

The shift, however, could impact food security, biofuels and the global carbon cycle.

To resolve long-term fuel supply issues, biofuels are high-profile solutions.

Up to now, maybe we can say that the real conflicts related to biofuels maybe are not visible, at this stage.

Biofuels were given more and more attentions as it was reproducible, cleaning, and environmental benign.

Money has been poured into the production of biofuels, which has helped push up food prices.

Biofuels have pushed global food prices up by 75%, the Guardian reported an internal World Bank study as saying.

The oil price is lower, cutting transport costs and demand for grain-based biofuels.

The rest is supposed to come from advanced biofuels.

Soot is released from burning fossil fuels (particularly diesel and coal), wood, and other biofuels.

Brazil, Japan, Indonesia and the European Union all say biofuels must supply 10% of energy demand for transport by 2020.

Growing global demand for biofuels is also eating up grain production, and boosting prices.

Biofuels present both opportunities and risks.

Kansas can add to the renewable energy mix, Frahm believes, by using its ample farmland to grow crops that can be converted into biofuels.

a hectare of seaweed could thus produce organically 120 times more biofuels than a hectare of colza, soya or sunflower.

The latest version of the government's Renewable Fuels Standard calls for 36 billion gallons of biofuels to be produced annually by 2022.

Phil New, the head of biofuels at BP, says his firm is determined to comply with RFS-2.

As an article in Scientific American pointed out this month, biofuels still have a long way to go before competing with gasoline.

More than 65 per cent of the region's electricity comes from hydroelectric sources, and it is a leading producer of sustainable biofuels.

Replacing petroleum with biofuels is a tough business.

The development of the global biofuels industry further increased demand for agricultural commodities and hence fertilisers.