Biofuels are dead: long live biofuels(?) - Part one.
Beleaguered by criticisms, and abused by politicians for ecological target-setting, biofuels are in their darkest hour. But their bringing to trial should remind us - yet again - of something else: the highly questionable sustainability of most of modern agriculture. Is this the end of biofuels? Probably not, but it is certainly the end of a cheap solution to the problem of sustainable portable fuels. Part one of this two-part article focuses on the political and agricultural dimensions of the topic.
Moore
Andrew
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European Molecular Biology Organization, Science & Society Programme, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. andrew.moore@embo.org
D001674:Bioelectric Energy Sources / Q000639:trends; D018556:Crops, Agricultural; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D008460:Meat; D006109:Poaceae