Busy Bees and Biofuels

The Oil Drum

It's easy to say 'busy as a bee'. Are bees busy?

One calculation has it that 450g (1 lb) of honey represents visits to two million flowers.

No wonder they want to sting you if you take their honey.   A comparison is made between the effort it takes to make a biofuel ( like honey ) and to extract it from the ground ( like oil).

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