Looking Past the Biofuel Hype

Over at Futurepundit, Randall Parker references a pair of studies that cast many doubts on the efficacy of biofuels and comes to this conclusion:

The future development of more energy efficient means for converting biomass materials into liquid hydrocarbons combined with advances in agricultural technologies might eventually make crops net energy producers. But increased demand for crop land, water, and pesticides for energy producing crops will bring environmental costs. We'd be better off advancing technologies for nuclear, solar photovoltaics, and batteries so that we can reduce our use of liquid fuels for transportation.

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