Biofuels - facts and fiction.

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      The article presents facts and fiction about biofuels. For more than 15 years, David Pimentel, professor of Ecology and Agriculture at Cornell University in New York, and his colleague, professor Tad Patzek at Berkeley, have published peer-reviewed research showing that biofuels give out less energy when burnt than was used in their manufacture. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development published research which shows that more than 70 per cent of Europe's farmland would be required for biofuel crops to account for even 10 per cent of road transport fuel.