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Biofuels: A Really Slow Growth?
Biofuels is a general term for biodegradable fuels derived from organic sources as constrasted to petroleum based fuels aimed at conserving our environment for our generation and the ones to come. Only very few countries are committed to environmental preservation and protection. The rest simply play to the gallery.
Why the seemingly slow growth in the use of biofuels especially in the developing world?
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The slow growth in the use of biofuels in the developing world are primarily linked to cost and availability of equipment suited for biofuel consumption, biofuel product, transportation of biofuels, and energy distribution infrastructure.
The issue is that biofuel crops are being grown instead of food crops or rain forest. They may have advantages over oil-based fuels in terms of emissions but the total life cycle must be taken into account.
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A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil fuels, like coal and petroleum, from prehistoric biological matter.
62 months ago
Biofuels produced from plants or other include wheat, corn, soybean and sugarcane, energy companies mix them with gasoline. Unlike oil, coal or natural gas, biofuels are renewable.
62 months ago
A bio fuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, from prehistoric biological matter. If the source bio matter can regrow quickly, the resulting fuel is said to be a form of renewable energy. Bio fuels can be derived directly from plants or indirectly from agricultural, commercial, domestic, and/or industrial wastes.
62 months ago
The most cost effective biofuels are produced from a waste stream such as a municipal wastewater treatment plant, landfill or manure from a large farm or group of farms. All these entities core mission is not fuel production but either processing of the waste collected or raising the animals for their food production.
In the developing world the large infrastructure requirements to centralize these waste streams take a long time to build. The amount of waste produced in some cases is also proportional to the wealth of the population.