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Waste to biofuels?

机译:浪费生物燃料?

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The world is longing for production of bio-fuels, notably bio-ethanol or bio-diesel, to cater for the ever-growing energy demand for transportation of goods and people.rnBio-fuels can be produced from most organic matter with high contents of starch and oil, or even through conversion of the bio-gas, methane.rnLet us be clear: the task of providing a small fraction of the world demand of fuel for transportation is frightening. Depending on climate the necessary land for running an average passenger car on bio-fuel is between one-third and over one hectare. Considering that the world has over 600 million passenger cars and around 1500 million hectares of arable land, passenger cars alone would most likely require one-quarter of the available arable land. Some industrialized countries with high population densities may need as much as five times their present total agricultural land area for fuelling their transportation. The present modest attempts worldwide to produce bio-fuels from agricultural produce have significantly increased the prices of agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat and rapeseed. If a large-scale conversion of agricultural land materialized, inevitably natural areas will shrink and poor populations will get even poorer. These constraints should mean that those bio-fuels which are based on produce that competes with food production for land are regarded as a niche product that can only be tolerated to a minor extent worldwide.
机译:世界渴望生产生物燃料,尤其是生物乙醇或生物柴油,以满足不断增长的对货物和人员运输的能源需求。淀粉和石油,甚至通过沼气转化成甲烷。让我们清楚一点:为世界提供一小部分运输燃料的任务令人生畏。根据气候的不同,使用普通生物燃料驾驶普通乘用车所需的土地在三分之一至一公顷之间。考虑到世界上有超过6亿辆乘用车和约15亿公顷耕地,仅乘用车就很可能需要可耕地的四分之一。一些人口密度大的工业化国家可能需要其目前总农业用地面积的五倍之多来为其运输提供燃料。目前世界范围内从农产品中生产生物燃料的适度尝试大大提高了诸如玉米,小麦和油菜籽之类的农产品的价格。如果实现大规模的农地转换,不可避免的自然地区将会减少,贫困人口将变得更加贫困。这些限制条件意味着,那些以与粮食生产争夺土地的农产品为基础的生物燃料,被视为在全球范围内只能容忍的小众产品。

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