Russia Joins Biofuels Bandwagon
October 26, 2007http://biopact.com//10/putin-encourages-farmers-to-produce.html
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Despite its being a global oil and gas exporter, Russia is set to join the global transition to biofuels. In a national television program, Russian President Vladimir Putin, told farmers that they stand to “benefit from capturing part of the emerging market for bioenergy”. Together with “next-generation” biofuel technologies, the country has the potential to harness its vast territory of “taiga and tundra” areas for bioenergy crop plantations particularly lignocellulosic biomass, into biofuels. Taiga and tundra areas are not suitable for food farming, and can be used to plant a diverse range of “herbaceous and woody biomass crops” as bioenergy feedstocks. According to the International Energy Agency Task Force 40, the region (former Soviet Union and Baltics) has a maximum sustainable energy capacity of 199 Exajoules by 2050, or about 89 million barrels per day. This is roughly comparable to the present global oil consumption. (1 Exajoule is 1 billion Gigajoules)
Related information on taiga and tundra:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra
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