A bill passed in the House of Commons today could see more of our already limited food supply fed to cars and SUVs instead of people, says Greenpeace.
Bill C-33 puts science and human need aside, clearing the way for increases in the amount of ethanol in gasoline to five per cent and increases in agrofuel in diesel fuel to two per cent at a time when global food stores are at their lowest since the 1970s.
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Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are working to chemically manipulate algae for production of the next generation of renewable fuels, Hydrogen Gas.
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“Just like petroleum refineries make more than one product that are the feedstock for other industries, the same will have to be true for biofuels,†said Kenneth F. Reardon, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. “Biorefining is what the vision has to look like in the end.â€
Glycerol is used in a variety of products, including foods, soap and dynamite. But as biodiesel fuel production in the United States has risen, the market for glycerol has become saturated.
