Will Biofuels be the next Fossil Fuel any time soon.?

Question

Lately Oil has been big in the news and with that also the Environment is a major concern for people, IS BIOFUELS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE OIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS WE SEE TODAY? I know that if Biofuels come in, a food shortage will occur, and food prices will go up, but our World is more important.

So all in all ARE BIOFUELS THE NEXT GAS FOR YOUR CAR IN THE YEARS COMING?

Answer 1

we need to make bio fuels, but they are not the answer to our problems. Liquid air is one solution if we make all the good solutions work. Gas is not going to be used to run cars much longer. I am hoping we can come up with a car that runs on hydrogen reacted to helium-about 10000 times more energy than making water. Check out CoolingEarth.org for more information

Answer 2

people who support biofuel have no understanding of economics.

biofuels are just as deadly to the environment as oil, its not an alternative, its a substitute.

biofuels have already caused food prices to rise. Investors have put so much money backing Corn as a fuel, they forgot that its also a food staple in many countries.

Corn doesnt even have the highest cellulose content, and it needs good soil to grow in, its A WASTE OF FOOD.

there are many alternatives to our oil problems...wind, solar, and hydro power...we have the technology but we have yet to implement them....iceland meets 95% of its energy needs through geothermal vents, granted most countries dont have access to this resource... there are plenty of technological advances that could avert our ongoing oil crisis.. People just have too much money invested in oil to turn to something new...Bush and Cheney are in Iraq now so that when they are out of office, their oil business will thrive

the people that CAN make a change dont want to,..why?...money

Answer 3

Short term, making food prices rise looks like a disaster. Longer term prices need to be higher to ensure supply.

Using soy to produce oil as fuel leaves the rest of soy, the more important part of it to be used as food. We could be using corn to provide sugar for ethanol while preserving most of its nutritional value, but that is not the business ethanol producers are in.

Corn is an abysmal food, from a nutritional point of view. It actually improves it when we remove the sugar content.

The energy needed to produce either corn sugar or soy oil is too close to the energy we get from those outputs. So we need to justify growing them in terms of the byproduct nutrients we can make cookies from. As it is we are getting too little from the land used and energy consumed.

Answer 4

Fossil fuel is just aged plant oils. They all produce CO2 but that is the way nature recycles with the aid of plants. Fossil fuels is from plant fossil not animal. All oil come from plants.

Answer 5

Bioenergy is a better option for developing countries than developed countries. For one it requires a bit of land to develop these biocrops.

The next big energy vector is hydrogen. Look up hydrogen economy. In developed countries, they are seeking to produce hydrogen from renewable sources like wind and solar. The gas/hybrid cars you see now are merely stepping stones to future fuel cell hybrid cars which run on hydrogen.