Fuelling the Future: The Biofuel Dilemma in the Age of Net Zero
Published 2026, Amazon Kindle and paperback
Biofuels were supposed to be the bridge between the fossil fuel era and the renewable energy future. They were promoted by governments and corporations as a clean, sustainable alternative to oil. The science told a more complicated story.
Fuelling the Future examines the biofuel promise and its collision with the evidence, drawing on my doctoral research at the University of Westminster and two decades of science journalism. It is written for energy professionals, policy makers, students, and anyone who wants to understand why the gap between noble stories and structural realities is so persistent, and so consequential.
Available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback:
The Energy Civilisation: How Energy Made Us and Will Define Our Future
Narrative nonfiction, completed manuscript
A bioscientist’s account of what energy actually does to civilisations, from the first controlled fire to the green transition unfolding right now. Tracing the deep history of human energy through an ecological lens, and asking whether the transition we are attempting will finally break the oldest pattern in history, or simply repeat it in new clothes.
Currently seeking representation.
Little Swan
Literary fiction, completed manuscript
Currently seeking representation.
Man o To Ma Boodim
(When You and I Were Us)
Poetry collection in Persian. Hamida Publication, Tehran, 2001.
A collection of poems in Persian, published in Tehran in the spring of 2001, the same year I arrived in London. These poems were written from inside Iran, from inside a life I was about to leave, and carry the weight of everything that departure meant.
Currently out of print.
Payman Moayedi 