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Algal fuel pioneer John Benemann joins Australia’s Future Fuels Consortium
In Australia, algae research pioneer John Benemann has been appointed as specialist advisor to the Australian-based Future Fuels Consortium. The consortium consists of the national science agency CSIRO, the South Australian Research and Development Institute, Flinders University, and SANCON. Benemann said that the challenge for Australian-based algae biofuels was to develop low-cost technologies for the [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Technical feasibility does not mean economic feasibility…Economic feasibility does not mean environmental, political or social feasibility.”
David Swenson of the Iowa State University Department of Economics: “Right now, I’m not very optimistic about how [ethanol] will affect our rural economy. …Technical feasibility does not mean economic feasibility…“Economic feasibility does not mean environmental, political or social feasibility.”
Bernard Keane in crikey.com: “The greenhouse benefits of biofuels have long been debated. The then-Australian Greenhouse [...]


