Biofuels biofuel economy

Therefore, a biofuels economy, in essence, converts glucose to carbon dioxide and water ... 

Demirbas, A., 2008. Biofuels sources, biofuel policy, biofuel economy and global biofuel projections. Energy Conversion Management 49,2106-2116. 

D. Morris, The Carbohydrate Economy, Biofuels and the Net Energy Debate, Institute for Local Self-Reliance Pub. Minneapolis, Aug. 2005 (http //www.newrules.org/agri/ netenergyresponse.pdf). 

There are many benefits to the environment, economy and consumers in using biofuels... 

Renewable and unconventionaL eneigy sources are used more extensively in other parts of the world than in the United States. Tables 12 and 13 document the significance of hydroelectric power throughout industrialized and developing economies. Biofuels are also a significant contributor to certain economies, with proportional contributions as follows Kenya, 75% India, 50% China, 33% Brazil, 25% and Scandanavia, 10% (5,21). Peat is a significant source of eneigy for Russia, Finland, and Ireland. 

During the global transition from the present oil-based economy to a clean and inexhaustible energy economy, the importance of distillation will increase because biofuel production also involves distillation and because... 

Biofuels are valuable sources of sustainable energy. Interest in them will rise tremendously in the coming years due to the perspective of a dramatic shortage of oil and gas reserves, simultaneously with an accelerated worldwide demand in fuels, namely in the large emergent economies. Biofuels have at least five merits. They ... 

Johansson et al. projected aggressive scenarios for a renewable energy-intensive economy in which 40 percent of direct fuel use (for everything except power generation) comes from renewables, mostly in the form of biomass, by 2050. Direct use of biofuels exceeds direct use of oil in their scenario.59... 

Metabolic pathway engineering [125] is used to optimise the production of the required product based on the amount of substrate (usually biomass-derived) consumed. A so-called biobased economy is envisaged in which commodity chemicals (including biofuels), specialty chemicals such as vitamins, flavors and fragrances and industrial monomers will be produced in biorefineries (see Chapter 8 for a more detailed discussion). 

The sky-rocketing crude oil prices in recent years and the continuous exploitation of fossil fuels demand that we make serious efforts toward sustainable biofuel and bioenergy production. Renewable energy derived from plant-based feedstocks, organic residues, and biowastes is expected to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance the rural economy (Schmer et al., 2008). In the United States, liquid biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are primarily derived... 

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