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Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 By BRYAN WALSH
www.time.com
Maybe it was simply too good to be true. For proponents, biofuels — petroleum substitutes made from plant matter like corn or sugar cane — seemed to promise everything. Using biofuels rather than oil would reduce the greenhouse gases that accelerate global warming, because plants […]

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Yeni enerji kaynakları arayışı hiçbir zaman bu kadar aciliyet taşımamıştı. Şu sıralar dünya gündeminin en önemli başlığı olan biyoyakıtlar, yeryüzünün kıymetli doğal kaynaklarını tüketmeyen, özellikle gelişmekte olan ülkelere ekonomik avantajlar sağlayan “yeşil” enerji kaynağı olarak sunuluyor. Acaba bu ne kadar doğru?
ERIC HOLTZ-GIMÉNEZ
Le Monde Diplomatique, Haziran 2007

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Clearing raw land to produce biofuels actually contributes to global warming by emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, researchers have warned.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from new croplands carved into rainforests, savannas, wetlands or grasslands would easily surpass the overall amount of CO2 emissions reduced through the use of biofuels, according to a […]

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