Saturday, March 15, 2008

Biofuel Crops That Require Destroying Native Ecosystems Worsens Global Warming - SendMeRSS

Turning central ecosystems into "farms" over biofuel crops causes extreme form emissions that worsen the extensive warming that biofuels are meant to mitigate, according to a fashionable scan by the University of Minnesota besides the Earth Conservancy. The dead ringer forfeit by converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands outweighs the carved figure assets from biofuels. Such conversions forasmuch as corn or sugarcane (ethanol), or palms or soybeans (biodiesel) deliverance 17 to 420 times extra image than the account capital from replacing debilitated fuels, the researchers said.

Full text

Link - Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:34:55 GMT - Feed (1 subs)

Sent using SendMeRss.com.
Visit here to unsubscribe from Petroleum.
Recommended Feeds/Actions

No comments: