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Bioenergy is currently too much like an "enthusiasts club"
Bioenergy is currently too much like an "enthusiasts club"
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 3 March 2011 ) The public's not hearing about the bioenergy market, it's rare to see commercialisation thinking around it and the sector's more like an enthusiasts club.
In opening a mini conference in Wellington about how to implement the Bioenergy Association's strategy (see here), executive officer Brian Cox says thing need to change if New Zealand wants to derive 30% of the country's transport fuels by 2040.
"People tend to be technology focused rather than commercially focused," he says. "We're tending to the supply side rather than the demand."
The following points notable points struck sticK at the bioenergy event, which reckons that the use of wood and its wastes, as well as short rotation crops, for their direct heat, liquid and gas components can help make New Zealand much less dependent on imported fossil fuels.
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