Archive for the ‘Energy issues’ Category

Defra launch Water White paper More about keeping taps running and environment damage doing that ,than food production

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FFEN Article on Vertical farming for the Intensification Working Group

Below you will find an article discussing the ideas and possible methods of Farming Without sunlight.

Farming Without Sunlight (55)

The Renewable Heat incentive for biomass and other alternative heat technologies is announced

http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/what_we_do/uk_supply/energy_mix/renewable/policy/incentive/incentive.aspx

Europe ponders the biofuel crops versus land use priorities (food –environment)

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1772

Update on implementation agendas 2009. A review of key biofuel producing countries. A report to IEA Bioenergy Task 39. Report T39-PR1.

Examines the implementation agendas of 21 of the most significant biofuel producers and/or consumers in the world today, including many members of the International Energy Agency’s Bioenergy Task 39 ‘Commercializing 1st and 2nd-generation liquid biofuels for transport’. In 2008, biofuel production capacity across the 21 countries considered in this study totalled 10.9 billion litres of biodiesel, and 66.6 billion litres of bioethanol.

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