Biofuels Flashcards
What is biodiesel and ethanol produced from?
Plants
How does the production of ethanol work?
Take sugar cane apply fermentation and you produce your fuel .
What is the advantage about the method to produce fuel?
The sugar canes take in the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during the process of photosynthesis this is called carbon neutral
Give economic and social advantages of biofuels?
1) jobs
2) low tech
3) low energy
Give environmental advantages of biofuels?
1) carbon neutral
2) renewable
Give disadvantages of economic and social uses of biofuels
1) food
2) crop failure
3) slow
Give disadvantages for environmental uses for biofuels?
1) habitat destruction
2) reduction in biodiversity