Is biofuel the future for transport fuels?

Question

OK for the enlightenment of Negrodeus (Black God???) I know oil is a biofuel, but what I mean is RENEWABLE biofuels. Clear now?

Answer 1

COAL IS NOT THE ANSWER you tards! Have you ever seen the landscape after mining reclamation has been done? Not much soil left, no more "hills" and it will take 50 years to grow any decent size trees... if they'll grow at all.

Biofuels is a way to go but cellulositic is the only way! Current methods use only the corn's kernel and does not provide that much fuel from it, overall. AND... it would take every inch of currently cropped fields to even dent the nations dependance. What will feed our cows and humans?

Cellulosic uses the entire kernel, cob and stalk along with other useless "weeds" to obtain the best overall replacement "fuel". Cellulosic also reduces emmissions by 85% vs 20-30% for sugar formulated. It's overall cost analysis (input-output) is much better than the sugar fermentation type ethanol to! Switchgrass works well for this but it's basically useless for anything else of value!

So until cold fussion is invented or a better hydrogen cell... cellulose ethanol is THE way! The downside of bio-fuels... water, nutrients, fuel for the tractors... a lot of input!

Answer 2

Read Mark Lynas' article on the subject in this week's the New Statesman.

One major criticism of biofuel is that it takes more energy to produce the crop, process and manufacture the fuel than the energy that the fuel can produce. It doesn't make sense.

Another criticism is that to produce enough of the raw material (ie: palm oil, soya, etc.), a very large area is required fully dedicated to these fuel crops. An estimate is 1.8 billion acres for soya production to fulfill the automotive fuel needs of the US alone. In a country like China where feeding people is more important, the concept is just not going to work. Also, in SE Asia, a lot of slash and burn is being carried out to clear land for use to cultivate palm oil. The slash and burn process itself releases vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, negating any immediate emission reduction benefits such biofuel may have.

Answer 3

Whether it is or not remains to be seen. It can be and could have been by now had Congressmen not been so heavily invested in the petroleum industry, literally and figuratively. Henry Ford's Model A was designed to run on gas, kerosene, and ethanol, "bio fuel" as is the catch phrase of the day. The Model A was built just after the turn of the 19th Century, a hundred year ago almost. No one in Congress with any political ambitions wants to change the status quot because of campaign expenses if for no other reason. Too much money for elections and reelections hangs in the balance to try to legislate the use of "bio fuels." The petroleum industry would with hold contributions to supporters of such legislation and the supporters might not get elected or reelected. The only way "bio fuel" will become "transport fuel" is for to consumers to demand it and to reduce the use of petroleum based fuels. In this case, as well as in the political process, money talks.

Answer 4

In part yes,

But the pressured air car have good potential too, but government don't want us to have it !!!

They are the Illuminatis, and they own you,
This is the New World Order, and it is your future if the world don't wake up :

And this is what Bush’s minions had to say in 2000;-
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"
Project for the New American Century (2000)

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Hermann Göring(Nazi) 1946 Nuremberg Trials

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller: Statement to the Untied Nations Business Council in September 1994

"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with other around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." David Rockefellers memoirs (2002)

Answer 5

Coal is the answer. Right now the state of Montana is constructing a plant that can turn coal into oil, gasoline, natural gas, etc. etc. They estimate that there is enough coal in the US which can be turned into oil that would cut our dependance on foreign oil by 2/3 for the next 50 years. Hey idiot below, so everyone is going to drive a nuclear powered car? Yeah that is plausible. Read the question moron, it said transport fuels.

Answer 6

A microbial gas cellular (MFC) or organic and organic gas cellular is a gadget wherein micro-organisms oxidize compounds consisting of glucose, acetate or wastewater. The electrons won from this oxidation are transferred in direction of an electrode, called the anode. From the anode, the electrons go away with the aid of an electric powered circuit in direction of a 2nd electrode, the cathode. on the cathode, the electrons are transferred in direction of a intense ability electron acceptor, preferrably oxygen. As present day now flows over a ability distinction, ability is generated as a consequence of bacterial interest.

Answer 7

I feel it will definitely play a big part in the near future. But not until we can get enough manufacturing facilities to produce enough product to make a difference.
These new bio-fuels tend to run cleaner and can cost less to manufacture.
Win - win for the consumer

Answer 8

Only a stop gap - most likely Electric is the next major step(Hydrogen Fuel Cells)

Answer 9

Coal is the answer my ****!

we would be back to square one in a mater of decades, nuclear power is by far the most plausable for of energy

Answer 10

This is a bit like. BISEXUAL. If you cannot get it. BUY IT.

The same applies to fuel.