Why cellulosic ethanol will not save us

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Tad Patzek, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, explains why cellulosic ethanol will not save us:

Today it is commonly believed that burning freshly cut plants is morally superior to burning old fossil plants. Even more curiously, some are convinced that stripping ecosystems of gigantic quantities of biomass can go on year-after-year, forever, and with no consequences.

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