HOW TO MEASURE BIOFUEL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS – A TOUGH TASK
September 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT is a mind-bending question. How on earth, given the complexity and variety of available biofuels, their feedstocks and manufacturing processes, can their relative 'green-ness' be measured efficiently? But, to the delight of mathematicians and technical consultants the world over, this toughest of queries has to be answered. And the result has to be acceptable to a very large number of governments, preferably all of them, if a global consensus over which biofuels should be encouraged is to be forged. It is important that this be done, because ...
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