If agro-biofuels are neither feasible nor desirable, why are billions of dollars and euros being poured into agro-biofuel production through investments and subsidies? Have politicians suddenly lost their minds? Have investors suddenly lost their common sense? As a matter of fact, as is argued in detail further on, neither investors nor politicians have lost their [...]
According to the First Law of Thermodynamics, neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed. Therefore, it is impossible to have an output/input energy ratio greater than 1 when considering a closed set of energy transformations. To make things more difficult, according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, any conversion of an energy input [...]