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Stung by criticism of converting food into fuel, the industry is seeking new sources of biofuels, from household waste to algae

What's not to like trash on the tower in a low carbon energy, displacing oil and its emissions that cause global warming?

Not much according to the biofuels industry, which recognizes the office and household waste will be the most promising source for biofuels in 2012. This raises the interesting possibility of landfill mining, as is already happening in some places, though of course take the trash before it is buried is the clear first choice.

The news comes from the World Biofuels Markets conference I attended in Rotterdam, where over 100 industry leaders were invited to "next generation" of things - that is, no food, like corn or sugar - are believed to be the most promising for 2012? The results are instructive, as we have heard much about the failures of many current biofuels unfortunate food into fuel, but less about how people are producers responding to this criticism.

MSW was the choice for 26%, followed by 24% of non-food crops such as jatropha and millet. Non-food crops have their own problems, of course, as to ensure that no food crops to press or take land or water of the local population, as it is located in Tanzania.

And that's what he would say, you might think. But record oil prices we see today gives just cause for optimism, I think. Nearly half of industry figures said the price of oil would be more important to encourage investment in biofuels in the next 10 years, and they are not alone. The oil price increase could trigger a boom in biofuels, new technologies without subsidies in general to rise.

About a quarter of respondents still considered government mandates that would be most critical. A small number - 8% - were even worse, saying that "negative legacy" of food-based biofuels would be more important for investment and not in the right direction

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