A Scenario for the UK
- Use currrent cereal and oilseed byproduct straw
as co-fuel with coal for power generation.
This would produce > 5 Mte/yr, nearly 10% of
energy used for transport.
- Co-fire plastic and cardboard waste with coal.
30x106te of UK waste could produce ~3.5 Mte/yr.
- Reduce use of gas for power generation; convert
public transport and fleet vehicles to CNG.
- If oilseeds are grown, blend oil with petroleum
diesel or add to refinery hydrocracker stream.
Avoids the production of unsaleable glycerol.
- Don't make ethanol!
Buy it from Brazil? But worry about the rainforest...
- Use less!
Conservation payoff is typically ten times greater than
replacement.
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