Global Warming Today - Bio Fuel

Biofuels are primarily taken from biomass or bio waste and can also be known as agrofuel. They are mainly used in aspects of transportation although they can be used in many other areas. The vehicles that use biofuel require the fuel to be dense t assist with storage and must provide high power, the fuel must also be clean and in the form of liquid. The benefit of sing fuel that is in liquid form is that it can be handled and pumped easier. Biomass is also used in solid form such as wood, this is used for non transportation purposes these can are able to bear the low power density of external combustion.

Wood and wood burning is one of the major factors causing global warming and has been used for many years. Biofuels are the most effective way of reducing the green house gas emissions and halting global warming, the are also the best alternative t the nn renewable fossil fuels like oil which will one day run out.

Biofuels are also proven safe and effective. Therefore, car owners will not have to worry about their car insurance plans if they decide to use this alternative.

The major users and producers of Biofuels are Asia, America and Europe, the major problem researchers have is how to convert biomass in to liquid forms of fuel. Today there are two main ways of getting around this problem, the first way is to grow starch or sugar crops and turning them into ethanol through the process of fermentation. The other process is growing plants that naturally produce oils like jatropha and algae, these oils can be heated and then used as fuel for diesel engines.

The resulting oil can also be further manipulated to create bio-diesel, which has several applications. Biomass is sought from recently living organisms like plants and animals and can also include their by products. The most important point is that biofuel is renewable unlike oil, and coal and the other fossil fuel which will not last forever. The USA produce switchgrass, corn as a way of producing biofuel, brazil produce sugar cane for the same purpose, while in Europe they produce sugar beat and wheat, in chine they produce cassava while India produce jatropha.