Gcb Bioenergy

In GCB-Bioenergy's September Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore three featured articles. The first article aims at increasing the use of bioenergy in China, the world’s second largest energy consumer. And in our last article, we look into how researchers are trying to domesticate a bioenergy crop, Miscanthus, so that it can be more productive.

We explore three featured articles from July’s issue. The 'carbon neutrality' of burning biomass which concludes that assuming burning biomass is carbon neutral leads to incorrect greenhouse gas accounts. How the mass planting of bioenergy crops will affect the atmosphere. And Miscanthus looking into how productive Miscanthus would be in the U.S.

Professor Joyce Tait, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Biofuels, and Scientific Adviser to the Innogen Centre at Edinburgh University, discusses the Council’s proposed development of a comprehensive ethical standard for biofuels. Professor Tait is interviewed by Jody Endres, a senior attorney at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois.

Marty Schmer and Mark Liebig talk about how switchgrass managed for bioenergy production can improve soil quality in the Great Plains of the United States.

Bioenergy analyst, Sarah Davis, discusses the potential for Agave, which is unique feedstock because of its ability to survive in poor soil and without water between rainfalls, to be used as a sustainable biofuel feedstock.