BIOFUEL RESEARCH GROUP CLAIMS AVIATION BIO-REFINERY FUEL CANNOT BE SCALED UP USING CURRENT FEEDSTOCK
February 1st, 2021
A BIOFUEL research group has released a report that argues the feedstocks currently used by the world’s only refiner of bio-based aviation fuels cannot be increased to a large scale, and any significant increase would boost carbon emissions anyway. Biofuelwatch, a UK/US research and advocacy group assessing the impact of large-scale bioenergy, concludes that the model used by Paramount, California-based refinery, owned by Boston, USA-based World Energy, is “not scaleable”. It argues that one feedstock – tallow from slaughterhouses – cannot be collected ...
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