Comments on: Biofuels are not a panacea https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/29/biofuels-not-panacea/ Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:25:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/29/biofuels-not-panacea/#comment-218177 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:25:38 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=8086#comment-218177 Good article. I agree that primary energy production from biofuels does not make sense. It would be better to increase solar and wind sufficiently that carbon could be fixed from off-peak power.

However there is a need to sequester and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Right now, the only way to do that is via photosynthesis and growth of plants. The carbon fixed needs to be sequestered and not put right back into the atmosphere by burning it.

What is necessary is to change market-based incentives such that capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and sequestering it can be economically viable.

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