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... advocating would point out that that model of decentralised, focused on small local development projects, at a scale and with a technology that is not focused on providing a fuelstock for the military industrial complex ... that is precisely the model that is being avoided in the EU approach.

That is, the right 2.5% to 5% biofuel contribution to the mix can leverage its contribution, by eliminating transport tasks ... and it is precisely the right 2.5% to 5% contribution that is being swamped by subsidy to capital intensive, energy intensive, low EROI biofuel production.

The greenwashing of fossil fuels and tropical plantation agriculture with "biofuels" is, in other words, the enemy of starting on developing a renewable, sustainable biofuel component of the next energy economy.


Utsukushikereba sore de ii

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Apr 13th, 2008 at 12:34:21 PM EST
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Well, that would be the same devil's advocate. Or his brother ;)

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by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 13th, 2008 at 03:24:42 PM EST
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A devil's advocate might argue that biofuels is quite the opposite of nuclear in your frame.

What the EU seems to want to be on the road to pursuing is something under the name of biofuels that is as close to nuclear in the frame referred to as it is physically possible to be.


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by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Apr 13th, 2008 at 05:59:32 PM EST
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