Author: Jon Marshall

Tragedies of Commons and Non-Commons

Commoning is one way we can think about energy, that is sharing it locally and regulating it locally, but most of the world now lives in societies in which commons are under threat. Pollution encraoches on commons property which...

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Biofuels part 4

More types of fuel Biogas The decay of much biomass produces methane, or ‘natural gas’. The idea is that it is possible to capture or generate methane from waste, and rather than release it to the atmosphere, burn it...

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Biofuels part 3

Types of Biofuel The US Energy Information Administration (EIA 2022 another web page which gets updated regularly), remarks that “The terminology for different types of biofuels used in government legislation and incentive...

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Biofuels Part 2

Scientific Encouragement Biofuels have long been part of official plans for the energy transition, as a replacement for petrol or gas. The IPCC said in 2018: Bioenergy has a significant greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential,...

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