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DESCRIPTION:* Can biofuels solve the climate crisis?\n* Is ethanol production good or 
 bad for the environment?\n* What about cellulosic ethanol?\n* Why did a UN 
 official recently label  iofuels production “a crime against humanity”? 
 (Jean Ziegler, special rapporteur to the UN on the Right to Food)\n\nDavid 
 Fridley, of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence 
 Berkeley Labs, will address these questions in his talk “The Myths of 
 Biofuels” on Thursday, January 24, at Louden Nelson Center, Room 3, at 7 
 pm. The event is Free/Donation requested.\n\nFridley, whose work centers on 
 end-user energy efficiency, spent many years in the oil industry and is an 
 expert on energy issues in China. He helped to draft the Peak Oil 
 resolution adopted by the City of San Francisco to prepare for the 
 inevitable decline in oil resources.\n\nFridley’s talk presents a 
 scientists’ point of view on the many claims currently being made about 
 the role of biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, in a sustainable 
 energy future. Separating the hype from the facts, he will clarify the many 
 issues about biofuels in language clearly accessible to a general audience. 
 \n\nWhile not denying that there may be some useful small-scale 
 applications for biofuels, Fridley makes clear that biofuels are no 
 replacement for our rapidly depleting fossil fuels. “The amount of energy 
 that we consume in fossil fuels every year exceeds the amount of energy 
 that is captured from the sun in every plant in America, including the 
 roots,” he says. \n\nHe also makes clear the humanitarian impact of a 
 biofuels-based future: “There is simply no way to achieve [the current 
 target] levels of biodiesel blend…if we don’t want people to 
 starve….Why we have chosen to take the fundamental of human life [i.e. 
 food] and link it to the price of a nonrenewable resource [i.e. oil], is an 
 irrationality I don’t understand.”\n\nHis presentation will be followed 
 by “A Local Plan for Energy Independence” presented by transportation 
 expert Micah Posner and NASA researcher and solar advocate Joe Jordan. 
 According to Posner, “ There’s no reason to convert an oil addiction 
 into a biofuels addiction. Energy independence starts with walking to the 
 store.”\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/17/18467570.php
SUMMARY:The Myths of Biofuels
LOCATION:Louden Nelson Community Center, Rm. 3\n301 Center St., Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/17/18467570.php
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