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[The Tech Herald Science News] In yet another blow to the burgeoning biofuel industry, a report released Thursday has found that increased temperatures due to global warming could damage the growing of corn in the US Midwest and South by as much as $1.4 billion per year.

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[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Oil companies loath to follow Obama’s green lead: Royal Dutch Shell said last month that it would freeze its research and investments in wind, solar and hydrogen power, and focus its alternative energy efforts on biofuels. The company had already sold much of its solar business and pulled out of a project last year to build the largest offshore wind farm, near London.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: April 10, 2009: Non-OPEC supply fell by 170 kb/d, with a 220 kb/d dip in the OECD partly offset by higher non-OECD output. 2009 non-OPEC output is revised down by 320 kb/d, largely due to lower biofuels output, and weaker 1Q09 crude production in Asia.

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[Energy Bulletin - Economics] Biofuels & biochar - Apr 9 | Energy Bulletin: (A reader informed me of this, and I subsequently confirmed it with an Imperium representative, John Williams, who said by e-mail that “Imperium has produced fuel in 2009, but is not currently producing fuel.”) The suspension of production is the latest bad news for the company, which last year lost a big contract with Royal Caribbean cruise lines, and also canceled an initial public offering in early 2008.

[Green Inc.] Study: Low-Carbon Fuel Standards Are Unlikely to Reduce Warming ...: Nitrous oxide is about 300 times more powerful than CO2 making corn ethanol up to 70% worse than gas and canola based biodiesel up to 50% worse than diesel, according to Nobel Laureate, Paul Crutzen’s study from last year. Never mind land displacement effects that destroy forest and grassland carbons sinks.

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Mulch Blog: Last Thursday, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) released a report detailing biofuels' inability to reduce green house gas emissions and fight global warming, among other items. Unless their use is mandated or subsidized like corn and ethanol are, there is no guarantee of implementation.

[The Sugarcane Blog] Sugarcane helps California fight global warming « The Sugarcane Blog: From the likes of this, it looks like UNICA and others - presumably the Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy for the corn ethanol industry - are reviewing the models ARB used and should be providing public comments soon. They only have been given 45 days to review and comment on a model that ARB has taken more than a year to develop.

[Infoshop.org] Jna 15, 2009 - Next Generation Biofuels: Bursting the new Green ...: His cabinet appointments include 1) Tom Vilsack (Secretary of Agriculture), known for his advocacy on behalf of biotechnology and his close relationship with Monsanto and support for corn ethanol 2) Steven Chu (Secretary of Energy) who was instrumental in establishing agrofuels as the major focus of Lawrence Berkeley Labs (which he directs) and overseeing the establishment of the Energy Biosciences Institute, a $500 mil partnership involving UC Berkeley (a supposedly public educational institution) and BP, along with the Lawrence Berkeley labs, the goal of which is research and development of cellulosic fuel technologies.

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[Climate Warming Blog] Biofuel corn fields threatened by global warming says report ...: In yet another blow to the burgeoning biofuel industry, a report released Thursday has found that increased temperatures due to global warming could damage the growing of corn in the US Midwest and South by as much as $1.4 billion per year. Img: Corn …

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