Monday, July 13, 2009

Soybean oil

Just after coffee on a slow Monday morning. 

From a new paper "The Life-cycle Carbon Footprint of Biofuels": 

Our results indicate that soybean biodiesel production, despite its high savings from a pure engineering perspective, dramatically increases greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional diesel when factoring in emissions from land use change across a broad range of assumptions.

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