18 December 2007

Recipe for Disaster.

Imagine fertile land all around you is not used to feed the growing population of the world, rather for filling up the tanks of the motors driven around us. Biofuels can no way supplement the growing demand of automation and aviation industry for replaceable fuel, rather will stress the increasing demand for food for increasing population in the world.
Biofuels firstly need appropriate definition for itself, It's a fuel made from living part or waste they produce. The list include wood, straw, animal excreta, ethanol made from processing plant material. But of late, its derived mostly from crops like sugarcane and corn. Ethanol is used along with petrol as fuel in most of the advanced hybrid vehicle. The advantage of using biofuels is it will reduce greenhouse gas emission, and in turn reduce the catastrophe of global warming.This advantage has been highlighted extensively for increasing the production of biofuels around the world. In fact countries like Brazil, US have doubled there ethanol production in last 4-5 years. European Union also have set target that vehicle running should have around 5% of fuel coming from biological sources. Setting targets like this will put more pressure on government to put aside more land for devoting it for cultivation of biofuels, rather for food grains. The picture looks so clear from the fact that the moment the land for cultivating biofuels is diverted to fuel your vehicles, instantly there is more pressure to feed the growing population of the world. There are already civil unrest that has occurred in several developing nations such as Mexico over food versus fuel conflict.
Society seems to have disregarded the fact that there is population explosion, and half the population in most of the developing and underdeveloped nations still sleeps with empty stomach every night. The priority needs to be set right, is is to fuel the rich people vehicle in developed nations, or feed the malnourished people of the world. And as far as use of biofuels as greener technology for the future, the simple solution lies in reducing energy consumption, rather than trying to meet the increasing energy demands of growing population.

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