This afternoon brings the first installment of why conventional ideas about alternative energy needs to be rethought.
Reuters is reporting: Biofuel worse for climate than fossil fuel – study.
European plans to promote biofuels will drive farmers to convert 69,000 square km of wild land into fields and plantations, depriving the poor of food and accelerating climate change, a report warned on Monday.
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As a result, the extra biofuels that Europe will use over the next decade will generate between 81 and 167 percent more carbon dioxide than fossil fuels, says the report.
Farmland should be used to produce food, not energy.
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