What foods can be turned into fuels?

Question

I know that it is not just foods which can be turned into biofuels, but rather products based on cellulose.

Which foods, like corn, can be turned into biofuels?

Answer 1

All foods can be turned into fuel...

IF YOU WALK!

Answer 2

Corn, Orange peels, fats and oils, bannas and banana peels.

Don't rely on these I am just going off what I know.

Answer 3

Biodiesel is a renewable fuel derived from vegetable oil or animal fats that can be added to petroleum diesel as a blend or used on its own.  In the United States, most biodiesel is made from soybeans. Biodiesel is also made from canola oils and from waste stream sources including used cooking oils or animal fats.

In the developing world, biodiesel is produced from palm oil, sunflowers, and other sources. In Indonesia, there is significant concern that biodiesel may be causing deforestation, as native forests are removed to make way for palm oil plantations.

Answer 4

Are corn husks better than corn for producing energy? Ethanol is the alternative fuel that could finally wean the U.S. from its expensive oil habit and in turn prevent the millions of tons of carbon emissions that go with it. The Department of Energy has doubled its 2005 commitment to funding research into biofuels—any non-petroleum fuel source, including corn, soybean, switchgrass, municipal waste and (ick) used cooking oil. Already, half of the nearly 11 billion bushels of corn produced each year is turned into ethanol, and most new cars are capable of running on E10 (10% ethanol and 90% gas).

Yet the eco-friendly fuel is beginning to look less chummy of late. Some of the 114 ethanol plants in the U.S. use natural gas and, yes, even coal to run the processors. And ethanol has to be trucked. Existing gas pipelines can't carry it because it corrodes iron. Then there are the economics. Producers depend on federal subsidies, and increasing demand for corn as fuel means the kernels keep getting pricier.

That's why researchers are prospecting for more alternatives, preferably ones that don't rely on food crops or a 51 cents-per-gallon tax break. Municipal waste, wood pulp and leftover grain and corn husks are all quite attractive; they can produce something called cellulosic ethanol, which contains more energy than corn. But they don't give up their bounty easily, so for now they're more expensive than corn-based ethanol to produce. Undeterred, researchers at several cellulosic-ethanol plants are developing innovative enzyme concoctions and heating methods to make the process more economic. Nothing like haste to make something out of waste.

Answer 5

All food can be turned into fuel.  The more pertinent question is: Which foods can be turn into fuel economically?

Answer 6

Ethanol uses yeast to convert sugar into Ethanol.  As long as food has starch or sugar it can be converted into ethanol