Deriving fuel from trees costs more than wind and solar power and it emits more carbon than coal. There are many heated debates about this kind of energy, known as forest or woody biomass.
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New research calculates the huge cost of 'negative emissions' technologies that will be required to avoid dangerous climate change.
International development banks are supposed to ensure adherence to human rights in the projects they fund. Instead, their practices provide fertile ground for human rights abuses.
The future of two key energy policies – the EPA's Clean Power Plan and Renewable Fuel Standard – will decide whether bioenergy will continue to grow in US or not.
The government has issued a draft direction to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to invest in "emerging" clean energy such as bioenergy. But what are the prospects for bioenergy?
Burning some wood waste from native forests will be counted as renewable energy under revisions to the Renewable Energy Target (RET) passed this week.
When we think of renewable energy, it’s easy to picture spinning wind turbines or rooftop solar panels. But what about bioenergy? While wind and solar are now well established – in South Australia wind…
Bioenergy and biofuels have an important role to play in lowering the use of carbon-intensive fossil fuels – a point underscored by the IPCC report which confirmed the need for further research to improve…
If you’re one of the thousands of smartphone users experiencing battery drain, you’d have been pleased to read that Tel Aviv-based start-up StoreDot recently unveiled a prototype charger that fully charges…
Biofuels have come under scrutiny in the latest IPCC report, which outlines some of the emergent risks associated with their production. In principle, biofuels seem to be an ideal solution to reducing…
With Australia trying to meet renewable energy targets and reduce emissions wherever possible, we should be considering bioenergy. Bioenergy can be made by burning biomass in a variety of forms, including…
Many countries have turned to the planet’s forests to meet their need for renewable energy, burning wood chips and pellets produced at home or abroad in power stations to generate electricity. But a report…
The amount of scrap food thrown away worldwide is staggering. WRAP, a government-funded non-profit set up to encourage recycling and clamp down on waste, reports that in the UK we discard more than 7.2m…
Genetic mapping of an energy crop could help drive improvements in the production of bioenergy. Geneticists mapped all 19…
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Professor of Forestry Operations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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PhD Candidate, School of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Land and Food (Discipline of Geography), University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Sustainability Science, University of Southampton
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Research Fellow - School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Forest Ecology and Forestry, University of Vermont
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Director, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), University of Cambridge
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Professor, ARC Future Fellow & Founding Director, Sir Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility, RMIT University
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Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, RMIT University
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Professor of Catalysis and Research Director, Aston University
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Director, National Centre for Rural Greenhouse Gas Research, University of New England
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Principal Research Scientist, Climate
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Associate Professor and Principal Scientist, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Business Development and State Energy Specialist, University of Wisconsin Colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Extension
