Biofuels: Risks and Opportunities of an Emerging Industry

Biofuels have been hailed as the answer to two major issues facing humanity: climate change and our addiction to crude oil. However, they may not be the panacea they have been made out to be. Although biofuels are in theory ‘carbon neutral’, the energy and chemicals needed to grow, transport and refine them can often mean they save very little greenhouse gas emissions and in some cases even make climate change worse!
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