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Biofuels from Pine Plantations in New Zealand

Dec 20 2010

Over 70 scientists participated in the Biofuels Science Symposium in Rotorua. Trevor Stuthridge, sustainable design manager for Scion, a forestry research institute, stated that biofuels could be produced from a range of natural materials such as wood, waste and grasses but the challenge was in making them an economically viable source of biofuel.

He disclosed that currently the only important feed-stock available in New Zealand was soft-wood from the country’s plantations of pinus radiata plants.

According to him, the New Zealand biofuel research community was very small and received only about $10 million funds every year. Hence a national research strategy needed to be developed. He felt that that it would be advantageous for New Zealand to both adopt and adapt overseas technological innovations to attain self-sufficiency in transport fuel.

Stuthridge also remarked that the need of the day was to accelerate the bio-economy growth and optimize marginal land value

Source:

http://www.scionresearch.com/

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