Waste products, not crops, key to boosting UK biofuels
The UK should focus on using waste products like chip fat if it wants to double production of biofuels according a new study.The report from the says that making fuel from crops like wheat should be restricted.Incentives should be given to farmers to increase production of fuel crops like Miscanthus on marginal land. Even with electric vehicles, biofuels will still be needed for aviation and heavy goods say the authors. While the European Union has mandated that 10% of transport fuels should come from sustainable sources by 2020, these biofuels have been a slow burner in the UK. Suppliers are already blending up to 4.75% of diesel and petrol with greener fuel, but doubling this amount will take up to 10 years say the authors of this new report, that was commissioned by the government. To ...