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They also helped control erosion and promoted biodiversity. These trees consist of many stems that rise from one large woody structure. They are also slow growing but tough, and can be found in various farms all over Australia. Verve Energy has been working for eight years, developing a plan that will allow them to use these trees for an alternative use for energy. They have conquered many problems, but the main being they needed to develop machinery that would allow them to harvest over 20 tonnes of mallee biomass. Mallee trees are robust harvesters, so the machinery would have to be well built. The Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre developed a mallee harvester over several years, which won them recognition at Australia’s 2013 Awards for excellence in innovation. Malle is said to be the future of Australia’s energy process, as it is a great carbon sink, cost efficient and is a renewable, clean energy source.
As impressed as I was with what the article was saying about Australia, I found it a little bias. Throughout the article it almost seemed to promote the company and brag about it, mentioning the award and repeating how Verve Energy made mallee fuel possible. The original article was published by the Chinese newspaper company, the Global Times, which I found odd because I couldn’t find a trace of the article that was actually published on an Australian website. I dug a little deeper however, and found out that China has become Australia’s largest trading partner; Australia has been trading energy tools with them in the last ten years more than ever. I also found out that China has been talking about developing a long-term, stable, healthy relationship of energy demand and resource supply with Australia. Because of the information I have found, I believe that the article was bias towards the Australian company, Verve Energy.
Bias or not, I did enjoy this article. I agree that we need to find different energy resources, as the ones we have already are too harmful to the environment. I believe that malle trees are an excellent source of biofuel, they are great carbon sinks and renewable. They are beneficial while they are in the ground as well; they store excess water from soil so the soil doesn’t suffocate. I believe that using mallee trees as biofuel is a great opportunity that will benefit Australia and even the rest of the world greatly.
Dear Editor of Environmental Daily,
I was very impressed with what I read recently in an article about Australia using a new product to make biofuel. The article ‘Running on Mallee’ in last week’s EnvironmentalDaily reposted from the Global Times stated that 2005, the well-known Australian energy company, Verve Energy started their journey in seeing if they could make oil from Mallee trees. Mallee Eucalypts are large genetically improved trees, first brought to Australia’s farms where they were originally planted to manage water and salinity levels in the soil.
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Bernie Joiker, Hamilton ON