Vegetable fuel throne before the oil crisis

The world does not stand by its arms and watch the rising prices of crude oil and oil resources running out. There have been a series of factories producing fuel from sugarcane, rapeseed . to replace crude oil.

Automobile manufacturers are releasing cars that run "gasoline cane" or "gasoline straw". In Europe, America, Brazil and China are booming the revolution of biofuels technology.

The crazy character in the ancient story The save of Uncle Guliwer, who created the sun by squeezing water from the cucumber piles, is no longer a crazy crazy thing. The miracles of the ancient people have become reality.

Scientists have succeeded in producing on an industrial scale from the source of vegetable oil, sugar cane or radish, from wood chips, even from rice straw, which leaves after harvest. This groundbreaking technology is no longer the university experiments, but it has been widely applied in many countries around the world.

In Brazil, non-gasoline taxis that are all switched to ethanol are made from sugarcane. In Germany and the United States, drivers stand in line to buy gasoline from rapeseed. In China, the world's largest biofuel plant has been put into operation, while in Graz (Austria), buses run on oil made from . restaurant potato chips. McDonald's.

In the automobile race held at Le Mans in June 2005, the British convoy drastically took 24 hours of testing, using only fuel produced from vegetable oils. Mr. Lew Fulton, a leading expert on biofuels, according to the International Energy Organization (IEA), commented that after the shocks on the escalation of crude oil prices, many countries have countermeasures. groundbreaking books in the search for alternative fuel and gasoline sources.

Investors have released money to buy copyrights and apply the latest technologies to produce fuel from plant sources. In the United States, Brazil and Europe, the production of biofuels is increasing dramatically. Mr. Lew Fulton said that 2005 was the year marking the beginning of the green fuel revolution.

The race to produce biofuels

Biofuels are a new field. But in reality, it is the step back to the source. In 1900, in the motor exhibition held in Paris, the capital of France, the engine attracted a lot of attention and became the latest product at the exhibition, which was the internal combustion engine . peanuts.

Its author, the famous engine manufacturer Rudolf Diesel, then predicted that a plant-based fuel source would be as important as petroleum fuel. In the twenties of the twentieth century, automotive giant Henry Ford also stated that, most of the fuel from plants, especially sugarcane and soybeans, would replace petroleum-based liquid fuels.

But then, those predictions were forgotten and it was thought that abundant crude oil at cheap prices would be enough to supply the needs of the world's people for at least decades. But so far, the reality is no longer as optimistic as what has been predicted, energy experts have warned that in 2006 the crude oil industry will reach its peak, after which oil reserves will decrease. and crude oil prices will rise.

The most convincing evidence of concerns about depleted oil is that President George W. Bush declared in the G7 Summit in June that the source of soy fuel is becoming a Very feasible possibilities for the US and the world. In July, the US president decided to double ethanol production with US refineries mixing ethanol into gasoline.

In European countries also launched the race to build biofuel production plants. The European Union has stipulated that every liter of gasoline sold must be mixed with a few percent of ethanol. In Spain, Abengoa has completed construction of four ethanol factories.

He is also working on building a giant plant that produces fuel from plants with a capacity of 100,000 tons of biofuels. In France, the government has set a plan to increase biofuel production by three times the current output to replace traditional gasoline and oil.

New fuel tycoons

According to energy experts, a new fuel source - also known as "green gold" can be extracted from any plant that grows on our planet. In 30 countries are cultivating a series of short-term industrial crops such as peanuts, sesame, cassava, soybeans, corn, sugarcane, millet, rapeseed, potatoes . that can be made into liters of fuel completely Replace the source of gasoline, oil from crude oil.

According to the energy experts, this is a rich and endless fuel source, but humans are no longer obsessed with the fuel crisis. Brazil is becoming a biofuels tycoon - dubbed "Saudi Arabia": ethanol production accounts for more than 30% of liquid fuel production.

In this country, there are more than 90% of cars and motorbikes powered by biofuels produced from sugar cane and rapeseed. Fuel giants like BP and Shell plan to invest in Brazil 6 billion USD to build sugarcane ethanol plants. Germany is also becoming a bio-fuel tycoon with an output of 1.5 million tons along with an increase of 50% in annual output.

According to the government's plan, in the next 5 years, biofuel production will replace about 20% of traditional gasoline and oil. The Indian and Thai governments also plan to produce biofuel sources to replace 10% of the demand for gasoline and oil. Fortum Oil is building a biodiesel fuel plant in the outskirts of Helsinki, Finland.

Due to the difficulties of natural conditions, Japan has not yet produced biofuels by itself, but is also keen to sign long-term contracts with Brazil to import ethanol at a "low price" - only 25 USD / barrel (crude oil price is 78 USD / barrel), to replace 3% of imported gasoline and oil.

The car giants entered

In anticipation of exploiting the profits of the biological era brought about, the Ford car has launched the FFV (Flexible Fuel Vehicle) engine that has just run gasoline and has just run ethanol. In order not to slow down, automakers General Motor (USA), Peugeot (France) and Volkswagen (Germany) also unveiled automobile engines running ethanol or gasoline - mixed ethanol.

Mr. Wolgang Steiger, in charge of the biofuels research department, said in 2006 we will launch a gasoline engine - mixed ethanol at 80:20. Automobile carriers are also replacing gasoline-powered trucks to use vegetable oil vehicles to save costs. Dean Butler, director of Plymouth transportation, said by switching to ethanol instead of gasoline, they have saved 4,000 funts in the past year.

The future is at hand

According to the experts of the International Energy Organization (IEA), biofuel production technology replacing gasoline and oil has made progress every day. In July 2005, Science magazine announced a new technology method that allowed production of 2.2 units of energy from a unit of plant material.

This is a significant step forward from 8 months ago, when from a unit of plant material only for 1.4 units of energy. Recently, Shell Oil Corporation has invested to develop technology to produce 3,325 liters of sulfur oil from 1 hectare of canola, compared with the previous technology for only 1,300 liters of oil.

In addition, Shell cooperated with Iogen of Canada to develop ethanol technology from harvested straw and straw. In 2008, the factory is expected to produce 200 thousand tons of "petrol and straw" for the demand of running cars and motorbikes.

"These are solid premises to assert a revolution in the gradual replacement of traditional petroleum from petroleum with biofuels," said Lew Fulton. He said the launch of biofuel production programs is also an opportunity for African countries to reduce poverty because they can grow cassava or sugarcane for the biofuels industry in exchange for wheat. and rice.