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Gerard Ostheimer and Doug Faulkner co-authored a Biofuels Digest article with some ideas that show the benefits bioenergy could bring to Africa: “Africans should strive for sustainable fuels from native feedstocks in a modern infrastructure and thriving economy … Renewable diesel would fit right into existing fuel systems without the need for the whole blending investment – – and would give them greater reductions in pollution and carbon. Feedstocks could include endogenous croton nut, sustainable palm and woody biomass. A prosperous African bioenergy sector would also provide alternatives to charcoal for clean-cooking, co-generation and gasification for electricity and ultimately, advanced jet fuel for their growing aviation demand. This would be the agriculture-bioenergy equivalent of the African telecommunications revolution in which they skipped deploying land-lines and instead went straight to cellphones. READ MORE
