Troubling Advanced Rin Carryover Scenario Under Rfs Proposal

by Ron Kotrba (Biodiesel Reassessment) In a in progress "farmdocDaily" file, Scuff Paulson, assistant governess in the University of Illinois Personnel of Unindustrialized and Addict Economics, addresses renewable identification number (RIN) stocks and the implications of the U.S. EPA's proposed 2014 immensity wants for the renewable fuel prototype (RFS). "[D4 biomass-based diesel] RIN generation has exceeded oblique dominion needs for 2013 having...

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Biofuels Are Not Green

Biofuels are inefficient, ineffective and unfair:"The overall efficiency of photosynthesis is very low: less than one percent of the energy of sunlight is stored in the form of biomass, and there is not much hope for a substantial improvement. Biogas and biodiesel per area unit and year contain about 0.4 % of the energy of the sunlight which the area unit has received in the same period. In addition at least 50 % of the energy which of biogas or...

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