Question

In the last 2 sentences of the paper, the authors state, "Biofuel may provide an important role in transportation sector, although biofuels alone cannot fulfill the global demands. Based on current progress and advances in the field of biofuel production, we believe that the large-scale production of biofuels is urgent and achievable to meet our energy need in the future." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Yes, I completely agree with the above statement because as the world's population reaching at a higher and always increasing number, the supply and demand for the transportation is also increasing. And most of the area of fuel for transportation depends upon the fossil fuels such oil, gas and coal. These fossil fuel resources are non-renewable which means they are not be readily made for the use and they will take time of years to centuries to develop. As far as we using these fossil fuel very rapidly, their reserves are declining. So to overcome this problem we have to use an alternative for these non-renewable fossil fuel that is an Biofuel. A biofuel is very good in following terms -

- obtained from renewable resources like trees and plants, waste, etc.

- can be readily available.

- non-conventional method because it's not following any traditional practices.

- environment friendly.

But now the production of these biofuels are only limited to lab scale or small scale. Hence, there is a need for the production of biofuels at large scale level so that it can meet the urgent requirement as a fuel for transportation.

Biodiesel, Bioethanol, Biohydrogen are such currently utilizing examples of biofuels