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With the crisis along the Strait of Hormuz choking off global oil supplies, #Biofuels are making a comeback.
But are they a climate-friendly solution?
My new deep dive unpacks why betting on bioenergy might just accelerate #climatechange.

Why biofuels are back
The energy crisis sparked by the Iran war has spurred renewed interest in the fuels, but some experts are skeptical of their scalability and environmental benefits.

"But unless my calculations are wrong — which I hope they are, by at least three orders of magnitude — if we gave up burning fossil fuels today, we would have to reduce our energy consumption overnight to 6% — six percent — of what we currently consume"
#Aviation
#Biofuels

Aviation-fuel and generating capacity
I wrote in my last piece on aviation fuel that I thought that electrolysing the amount of hydrogen needed to fuel the world's jetliner fleet would use more electricity than the world's entire generating capacity, but that I would have to run the numbers. Well, now I have.

In the category of "For every complex problem" (Mencken) - #BECCS & #biofuels as the current example.
Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds

In the category of "For every complex problem" (Mencken) - #BECCS & #biofuels as the current example.
Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds