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New Zealand needs to wake up to bioenergy's potential
New Zealand needs to wake up to bioenergy's potential
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 28 Feb. 2011 ) Because our brains are controlled by history and habit we tend to think about things the way we thought about them yesterday.
It means we're missing the opportunity for bioenergy says Brian Cox.
The Executive Officer of the Bioenergy Association of New Zealand is passionate about how we could use what now is simply wasted, as well as bits of surplus land which can be used to grow sources of energy in different forms.
It should be noted that Cox is no green-tinged, environmentally and economically unrealistic airhead. Wearing his other daytime hat, he's the director of East Harbour Energy, a consulting business with a strong strategic emphasis, and the nous to crunch pragmatic numbers.
In the first instance Cox is talking about forestry waste, in the second the ability to grow short rotation energy crops such as Miscanthus (a kind of tall grass to you and me).
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