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Posted on 06/10/2007 4:51:37 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Top scientist says biofuels are scam Jonathan Leake and Steven Swinford
THE government’s policy of promoting biofuels for transport will come under harsh attack this week from one of its senior science advisers.
Roland Clift will tell a seminar of the Royal Academy of Engineering that the plan to promote bioethanol and biodiesel produced from plants is a “scam”.
Clift, professor of environmental technology at Surrey University, sits on the scientific advisory council of Defra, David Miliband’s environment department.
He will tell the seminar that promoting the use of biofuels is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions.
Clift’s comments will amount to a direct challenge to Miliband, who has published a strategy promoting biofuels. It coincides with a surge of anger among environmentalists over the weak pledges on climate change that emerged from last week’s G8 summit.
The audience on Thursday will also include Howard Dalton, Miliband’s chief scientist at Defra, who is expected to speak in defence of biofuels.
Clift said: “Biodiesel is a complete scam because in the tropics the growing demand is causing forests to be burnt to make way for palm oil and similar crops.
“We calculate that the land will need to grow biodiesel crops for 70-300 years to compensate for the CO2 emitted in forest destruction.”
Clift will also condemn plans to produce British biodiesel from rapeseed, pointing to research showing the crop generates copious amounts of nitrous oxide – an even more powerful global warming gas than CO2 The attack comes as the government increases its support for biofuels. Next year it will introduce a requirement for 3% of all fuel sold on UK forecourts to come from a renewable source.
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He will tell the seminar that promoting the use of biofuels is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions.Deniar!
the whacko veggies are probably laughing
that they made the price of beef go up.
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I thought he was going to talk about the CO2 given off in te fermentation process - shouldn’t that be counted as part of the CO2 (now it’s cliche time!) “footprint” of ethanol and such?
“I thought he was going to talk about the CO2 given off in te fermentation process - shouldn’t that be counted as part of the CO2 (now it’s cliche time!) “footprint” of ethanol and such?”
And I thought that Jack Daniels, Smirnoff, et al should be taking the lead in ethanol fuels. You’d think they know how to do this kinda thing....
“Roland Clift will tell a seminar of the Royal Academy of Engineering that the plan to promote bioethanol and biodiesel produced from plants is a “scam”.”
Corn growers are deeply saddened.
We need to go back to hunting whales as a source for fuel.
If all the corn in the United States were used for ethanol production, it would supply about 15% of the nation’s gasoline needs and we would have very little to eat.
I keep waiting for one of them to say, “Are you of the Body? You’re not of the Body!”
Well of course they’re a scam! Just like HOV, or carpool lanes which only work as long as no more than 3% of the population actually uses them ;’}
Have you been routing with the piggies?
BioDiesel made from algae grown at powerplants where the algae are “fed” the CO2 output from power generation seems to make sense to me.
read again, it sounds like he is of the “force them all into busses” crowd.
Actually, you misspelled it.
It’s “denier”.
But yes, you’re absolutely right. Anybody who questions any non-proven scientific, pseudo-scientific, quasi-scientific, or out-and-out non-scientific assertion — as long as the assertion is made by the High Priests of the Global Church of Environmental Correctness — are automatically “deniers”.
You don’t get to question pronouncements handed down by Environmentalists.
That goes without saying.
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