"Making Advanced Biofuels from Cellulosic Biomass Is Not an Illusion: It is About to Happen”, a Biofuels Digest special report on advanced biofuels

Biofueld Digest
By Biofuels Digest special correspondent Tim Sklar

Overview
On April 4, 2009, C. Ford Runge, a professor of applied economics and law at the University of Minnesota published an “opinion piece” on TwinCities.com website titled “The biofuel illusion”.

This article was cited in Biofuels Digest and available to thousands of its readers through a hyperlink. Dr. Runge’s opinions should be of concern to all who are involved in developing biofuels, as many of his assessments appear to be inadequately researched and many of his conclusions, ill founded.

This article highlights those assessments that are most damaging and provides information that can be used to rebut many of the conclusions Dr. Runge has reached.

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