Biofuels part 4
More types of fuel Biogas The decay of much biomass produces methane, or ‘natural gas’. The idea is that it is possible to capture or generate methane from waste, and rather than release it to the atmosphere, burn it...
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Biofuels part 3
Types of Biofuel The US Energy Information Administration (EIA 2022 another web page which gets updated regularly), remarks that “The terminology for different types of biofuels used in government legislation and incentive...
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Scientific Encouragement Biofuels have long been part of official plans for the energy transition, as a replacement for petrol or gas. The IPCC said in 2018: Bioenergy has a significant greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation potential,...
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What are Modern Biofuels The term ‘biofuel’ is usually used to refer to liquid or solid fuels manufactured from recently living organic material called ‘biomass’ (which can include plants, cooking oils,...
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None of this is original. There is a long standing argument, going back at least to the early 19th Century, that complicated technologies intrinsically distance, or alienate, people from the natural world. Rather than...
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