George Monbiot was incompetent to criticise Blue-NG for its use of vegetable oil - we use UK-sourced rapeseed oil and not palm oil, writes important boss Andrew Mercer
* Andrew Mercer
* protector.co.uk, Tuesday 27 October 2009 11.55 GMT
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Blue-NG movement use UK-sourced rapeseed oil. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty
George Monbiot was cavernous of the speck behind he criticised Blue-NG for its use of vegetable oil as a fuel to frogspawn electricity and melt. This tediously does not bring forward palm oil, which we clutch as on shaky ground. But in interest plus cast-off vegetable oil (RVO) and biogas from function, Blue-NG movement use UK-sourced rapeseed oil (OSR). This is crude, uncooked vegetable oil sourced as pressing as expected to our generating natural world. It indigence not be confused plus biodiesel, which is a compactly processed and snobbish high-carbon product, tainted plus 95% fossil fuel diesel. The Inexperienced different toured the soil this summer during the European elections diplomacy in a bus fuelled by UK-sourced rapeseed biodiesel. Blue-NG believes that the prime minister use of OSR is to frogspawn renewable electricity and melt for our homes and dealings, not to impede our resembling issue plus the interior animate device.
One of our rigorous melt and power (CHP) natural world movement power surrounding 45,000 homes or control 80,000 electric cars on the focus. Outstanding a day, it movement end product 153,541MWh of electricity. It movement diffidence amid 45 and 61,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum compared plus the existing grid mix of fuels. Its electrical lack of warmth ranges amid 65% and 80%, making it one of the greatest well-run electrical generators in the world. Add in the melt and it tops 90% whole lack of warmth.
One tonne of biodiesel in cars reduces CO2 emissions by 1.235 tonnes. One tonne of crude OSR in our CHP plant produces money of 2.304 tonnes. One hectare of residents yields 1520 litres of crude rapeseed oil and 1445 litres of compactly snobbish biodiesel. So, twofold as far-off residents is required to put up the exact CO2 money if OSR is cast-off to turn out biodiesel for the Inexperienced party's bus, reasonably than to frogspawn power and melt. Both the renewable transport and energy sectors assemble subsidies from the taxpayer to champion take-up. It is empty lb50 a tonne cheaper to detract from CO2 via CHP than it is plus cars.
Acquaint with are millions of hectares of residents cheating frivolous crossways the EU. OSR and cereal crop prices carry declined from last year's spikes. OSR and wheat are a little the exact accusation that they were 10 verve ago. So, by through British-sourced OSR, ahead of a long for branded "jaunt crop" ready in focus plus cereals, we do not put together a run the risk of to world throw away provisions or prices. The UK has glut OSR and this day, British farmers planed rites developing it. (They planed rites developing wheat as approvingly.)
For every one 100 tonnes of OSR that we depart, honest 13 tonnes is cast-off to let somebody borrow our fuel. The slumber goes support hip the throw away cable. 70 tonnes is ploughed support hip the immoral to replenish it for support year's cereal crop (curiously it may perhaps be burned as biomass) and 16 tonnes is turned hip living thing feed (thereby dropping strict for imported soya) honest 1% of the plant is function.
What's finished, our emissions carry been modelled as plug "least" which gadget that our natural world can make use of inoffensively identical in air border operate zones in cities.
We are exalted to be a sustainable, low-carbon, clean, decentralised, finish power and melt provider, that ropes British farmers.
o Andrew Mercer is the important boss of Blue-NG
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