The NSW government is planning to set a 2% target for ethanol based fuel supplies. Personally I’m still not 100% convinced of the benefits of widespread adoption of biofuels as a gasoline replacement. I’d be interested to hear from others.
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This is interesting when placed against the fact that Australia is expecting a record low grain crop this year.
Biofuels are a niche application and can not be scaled up to completely replace petroleum. Robert Rapier has been hammering this point for a while and has a recent post regarding the latest research into ethanol viability: http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2007/10/review-how-can-we-outlive-our-way-of.html
If we want to retain current levels of car ownership we need a to switch our fleet to diesel electric hybrids whilst ramping up public transport services. Eventually if we want to retain cars they will have to be all electric. However to match current liquid fuel performance there needs to be breakthroughs in energy storage technologies.
Posted 03 Oct 2007 at 10:11 pm ¶