BIOFUELS FEATURE

BY DEIRDRE MASONTHE WORLD is waking up to biofuels, increasingly produced from food crops and their waste by-products, and now one of the growing energy alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. As prices for traditional energy rise year on year, and energy watchers warn of oil production peaking around 2010, governments are looking towards food producers to grow the raw feedstock for the fuel of the twenty-first century. Nor will the feedstock always be primary crops. The technology is growing for fuels made from recycled food-industry materials such as used ...


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