The smart biofuels of the future

摘要

From the dawn of civilization mankind have utilized bioenergy and enjoyed the coziness of open fire. Knowledge and care about energy efficiency and emissions, not to mention sustainability, is something that has developed only very recently in the bioenergy history. Today a wide variety of biofuels exist - solid, liquid and gaseous - and it is not straightforward to select the right fuel for the right purpose. Liquid biofuels is a hot topic these days, brought forward by the future lack of fossil fuel certainty and the awareness of a fast-increasing GHG effect. In the future, we will need something other than fossil gasoline or diesel to fuel our motorized vehicles, but it is the fast-increasing GHG effect that is the main driver today.