Britain bags biggest biofuels research fund
Energy companies Shell and BP have joined the British government in pumping £27 million (€29 million) into research on biofuels that steer away from food crops.
It is Britain's largest public investment in bioenergy to date, and includes input from a total of 15 businesses.
The sum will fund research at six centres around Britain with the goal of replacing petrol in cars with fuels derived from willow, straw and other non-food crops.
Alongside these second generation ethanol feedstocks, industrial and agricultural waste, such as unused corn husks, will also be processed.
The investment in the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council can help meet this target with a locally-grown fuel source that could help prevent destruction of rainforests.
‘The challenge for biofuels is whether we can make the fuels sustainable and efficient enough,’ Britain's Science Minister Lord Paul Drayson comments.
Europe is looking to biofuels to help cut greenhouse gas emissions with the European Parliament mandating that 10% of EU transport fuel should come from renewable sources by 2020.
It is Britain's largest public investment in bioenergy to date, and includes input from a total of 15 businesses.
The sum will fund research at six centres around Britain with the goal of replacing petrol in cars with fuels derived from willow, straw and other non-food crops.
Alongside these second generation ethanol feedstocks, industrial and agricultural waste, such as unused corn husks, will also be processed.
The investment in the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council can help meet this target with a locally-grown fuel source that could help prevent destruction of rainforests.
‘The challenge for biofuels is whether we can make the fuels sustainable and efficient enough,’ Britain's Science Minister Lord Paul Drayson comments.
Europe is looking to biofuels to help cut greenhouse gas emissions with the European Parliament mandating that 10% of EU transport fuel should come from renewable sources by 2020.
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