Have you been on the cars, groundnut oil? Well, when Rudolph Diesel invented the engine – that we are now on what is now known under the name “diesel” (the name) – he ran to his peanut.
Today, all types of vegetable oils used as a substitute for traditional diesel and, in particular petroleum. In the United Kingdom, a few thousand cars are already on chip oil (olive oil, potato chips have been), in such a small scale, is a good thing. The question is, recycling of cooking oil in the United Kingdom, only about 100,000 tons of diesel per year, and it is not 1/380th more fuel through the entirety of the only way. What you have to wonder about the rest?
We will of course in the development of oil-producing plants for our cars on the environment “of the fuel. Should not be too difficult, he must be? Just plant fields of rape, and before they know that from oil in the fuel and the air is much clean.
But is it really that easy? Let’s take a look at the specifics of this.
1 hectare rape resulting in an average of 1.5 tonnes of bio-diesel. For the same number of vehicles on the road today, there is in Britain, rape, for example, to around 26 million hectares of land.
Given the fact that the United Kingdom, only 6 million hectares of arable land available, on the ground, where we grow the rest? It is somewhere on Earth. Again, 3 Country in the world is without a doubt at the end of the production of oil, we need for our cars in a “favorable environment for the species, while those who farm land not to eat, and even less a car. Better for the environment? Maybe but good for society as a whole: Definitely not.
And while we are growing so oilseeds in the country, where our food be grown? Can we really the quantity of oil to reduce the number of vehicles on the road today, and even less in the future?
Then there is the question of the actual production in the context of bio-diesel. Rape is not bio-diesel on its own initiative, after all. The seed is to be transported to processing plants where the energy is used for something more environmentally friendly than gasoline or other oil based fuels. But how much gas and / or electricity used to make the machinery for oil? And how much energy is needed to heat and light for the processing plant? And where the facilities are built?
What do “green diesel” is really better for the environment is someone presumption. We know that not omit harmful carbon dioxide, but everything has its price. What price can we afford?
PS I have something from a different source of bio-fuel offers the class …
But I fear that you wait to read an article and my own ideas are made. . .