Biofuel

Brazil is the pioneer of advanced biofuels programmes in the world and the European was once the dominant manufacturer of the biodiesel industry. North America and Asia is taking an increasing part of the biodiesel capacity. So far as concerned, metropolitan public transit buses and school…

40% of all corn produced is used for biofuels. That makes up a major portion of corn. Since 2005 the market for ethanol has grown exponentially. This is due largely in part by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This act increased the amount of biofuels that have to be mixed with gasoline (mainly ethanol). So not only did the demand for ethanol increase but the demand for corn also was increased because of this. Since 2006 the amount of corn that was used for biofuels increased from 2-5 billion…

Crude oil is becoming scarce throughout the world. Due to the heavy reliance on petroleum-based oil in the United States, the conversion from petroleum-based economies to bioenergy sustained economies is of utmost importance. In the United States, corn is considered to be a cheap energy crop and is widely cultivated for ethanol production. In contrast to corn, switchgrass is an easily cultivated plant that can be used for lignocellulosic biomass and ethanol production. Switchgrass (Panicum…

place in the economy. When it is highly subsidized, there is no way to tell where it’s true economic strength lies. “Ethanol is propped up by more than 200 tax breaks and subsidies worth at least $5.5 billion a year” (Goodell). And unfortunately biofuel production is such a huge part of the U.S. economy that removing the financial support could cause an economic meltdown the full extent of which cannot be predicted. For the U.S. or any other country to grow enough supplies to manufacture…

This class of biomass includes wood and fibrous materials from organic sources, agricultural wastes, organic municipal wastes, and organic industrial wastes [18]. Agricultural wastes contribute as the major lignocellulosic resources investigated for biofuel production. Among them are oil palm biomass [19,20], corn stalk [21], rice straw [22], wheat straw [23–25], and sugarcane baggase [26]. Other lignocellulosic biomass such as king grass [27], switch grass [28,29], and phragmites [29] known as…

the fossil fuels are rapidly increasing due to the high prices remains same in the gasoline. These all increase the concerns about the climate changes and alternatively increase in the oil based industry to prepare for the alternate biofuels. As we know the biofuels are the potential revenue source and we can control the climate change, weather conditions by using the replacement of gasoline in motor vehicles. Now people are using the corn based ethanol as the replacement of gasoline in some…

This is because corn will grow year after year and will continue to contribute as biofuel. The corn ethanol will also not leave the environmental footprint behind that gasoline does and emits less carbon dioxide, which could help put an end to global warming. This, however, still leads to environmental issues because, though corn ethanol…

Mark Daniel Westbrook English III Ms. Arnold 17 December 2017 Biodiesel, Good or Bad? The topic of biodiesel versus diesel is a complicated subject but when dug into its easy to see the differences. Biodiesel has benefits and problems as well as diesel having benefits and problems, but you gotta see the bigger and smaller problems of each fuel. Some say biodiesel is better because it is better for the environment and has a cleaner engine, whereas diesel is cheaper and now already has…

The “JetBlue Makes Biofuels Deal to Curtail Greenhouse Gases” is about Jet Blues newest strategy to plan for future restrictions. With greenhouse gas pollution changes in the near future Jet Blue has decided to invest in over 330 million gallons of renewable fuel. This is something that makes Jet Blue very unique in the aviation industry because most companies don’t view it as economical despite seeing potential. It has been the low oil prices and the lack of competition in the renewable…

Daniel DiMarcella Dr. Margaret Bryans BIT 120 December 6th 2016 Biofuels: Are they the Future? Everything humans need come from our planet whether it is food, water, metals or fuels. It has been determined that if we use up any one of these resources then we will be without forever. Fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas are non-renewable resources. Formed from plant and animals that lived up to 300 million years ago, fossil fuels are found in deposits deep beneath the earth. The fuels are…