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There is land available for energy crops |
10 April 2008 |
The UK is more than capable of producing the bioethanol and biodiesel
necessary to meet the RTFO target of a 5% inclusion rate. For instance,
set-aside land could make a major contribution. It accounted for 513,000
hectares in 2006, and bare fallow land amounted to 150,000, totaling over
10% of the available land for crops in the UK. |
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The UK will struggle to meet the 5% biofuel obligation grown from its own land resources. The commonly held view is that it will need to import oil from Asia to process it into Biodiesel (at Teeside and other plants), import biodiesel directly (e.g. from the Americas) and import Ethanol from Brazil.
Biofuel yields are much better grown in tropical climates. And carbon offsetting will be greater, i.e. 90% CO2 emissions savings compared to 10-30% for domestic crops. In fact, people belive that there is more energy going into domestic biofuels that there is coming out.
Which leads to strong economic forces, such as cheaper imports from abroad undermining domestic fuels.
http://www.processengineering.co.uk/Articles/306506/Biodiesel+in+crisis.htm
There are better ways to use the land available and growing forestry crops for biomass heating is one of them.
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DEFRA says... |
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...that there's a great potential for using waste wood too: http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2008/080409b.htm
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