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Apr. 22nd, 2008

  • 9:02 PM

Reasons why Biofuels should not be widely introduced.

biofuels have been around since early days. but have been kicked out of the market due to the founding of petroleum based fuels.
could this be called a reverting market? back to the olden days. Fucked

Since year 2000 - or - so. Biofuel have been on the rising acceptance by the public due to the few nameable factor.
Rising oil prices.
Oil peaking in year 2030-2040. where alternative source would need to be outsourced.
Concerns on green house emission. As perceived by everyone
Area development interest. On less developed area. farming can become more effective in having their total gain rate 
flunctuating supply and demand between petrol and alternative sources. leading to biofuel's turn to lead 
Government's nose poking of introducing and greatly generating incentives / policies
It is a renewable energy source.
and alot more...

the second generation of biofuels involve non-food crops. which needs more processing when compared to the first generating biofuels.biohydrogen and biomethanol are currently extensively under development

The third generation of biofuels would be from algae. having a less input and higher yield effect from the first and second generation. This method is hard to be imagined by me. since i have not much scientific knowledge. haha. and algae fuel are biodegradable. i guess the process of skipping evolution is not possible. I totally support the third generation. But a large area needed to facilitate the whole world would be like. WOOOOOO.
research: 38849 KM2. WOOO



Advantages of biofuels
Yes, Biofuels would have a varied effect on the environment. But everyone have been looking so much more to the advantages and have yet left out the negative views. The replacement of fossil fuels with bio fuels is a good idea to integrate, but definitely not a long-termed solution to our ever growing problems and demands and supply.

Biofuel, as many have already known, produce alot less pollution as compared to petrol-based fuels. I do not know if it's cheaper. But i doubt bio fuels would be cheaper. if it were cheaper. wouldn't everyone have already adapted this solution?

A dirtier environment with cheap solutions for population and a cleaner enviroment with a expensive solution
    makes more sense. no? 

Less imports would have appeared since most countries have the land and population to produce crops for themselves. Countries would be more independent in term of their energy source.

Many countries like malaysia, thailand and various parts of the world would certainly gain from growing this crops. with their already farming-efficient population and land. and most probaly would the crops yield go higher when farmers and industrialist gets more gain. The rise of agricultural farming and technology is to be expected with the implementation of biofuel. Not only for corn-farming alone. But also for grain and many food farming. Biofuel have gave chances to this countries in their hike to become a "second/first - world - country".
Good it may be. But the complex issues of rising and falling countries are far incomprehendable. 

Biofuel would provide an lag or push-back to oil peak. further research need to be done b4 this sentence could be really finished. for now its just a guess.

The whole industrial movement would be to R n D in agriculture sector. Its neither an advantage nor a disadvantage since it always happens. But in the next century. I guess agriculture may be more than we can comprehend. Maybe a ultra large corn which is able to be converted into biofuel 10 times the effect of a normal biofuel? A living plant that lives off in the compartment of our car, which continually generates great amount of biofuel that automatically processes itself to be useable? A machine that is able to convert any plant into biofuel as long as it have the required amount? who knows

seems like star-trek would now be. plant-filled. someone pls do a graphic image of the spaceship with a big-ass cactus. haha 
Maybe laser gun would be converted to "ultra high baby blue eye speeded fertilizing plant" . Tsio tsio tsio! and the whole land would be
baby-blue-eyes. Its a flower btw. and there, the user could get unlimited fuel for gears of wars. 

anyways.

This cleaner approach would provide a cleaner enviroment for us all to live in. resulting in a longer life-span in countries that are suspectible to recieves this treatment. Cleaner air = longer life span. simple as that.

A small thing to take note. buildings would take longer time to corrode. haha. no link right? think about it.
A cleaner air = lesser pollution/ unwanted particle = lower acidic rain = Low building degradation rate. kinda stupid but it stills applies.

Biofuel would be so effective and stable such that power-shortage would be rarer. and thus, national energy security would have rapidly increased. (wikied)


There's too much advantage to list. but this is the few i had showed.


The third generation of biofuel from algaes may have better effect, but who knows the bad side?

Dis-advantages of biofuels

First of. Biofuel aren't entirely green-house friendly. The manufacturing and the growing of crops it-selves proved to be. two edged along with biofuel. The up-growing of crops and fuels as listed itselves requires manure, machineries, transportation, processing plants. energy itselves is variedly used in this context. Carbon would be a main source of pollution it would then produce. processing biofuel is by far the most polluting steps currently. and further more, as quoted. The burning of biofuel contribute as much, or much more, greenhouse emission compared to fossil fuels. The only effective way is to plant less-nitrogen fed plants and plants that produce lesser green house gas then normal plant does. whatever it is. Behind the look of normal fossil fuel and biofuel. Its almost the same. as the saying goes
"lan pa, pa lan"  "balls hit balls"

Oh and. clearning land for biofuel would produce twice as much greenhouse gas as estimated.
The indirect effect biofuel have is shit-headed man. 

Lets think of it this way. There is this plot of forested area. which can process (on my own numbers) in the year of 10
100 percent amount of carbon into oxygen or whatever it is.
But when you clear the land. this 100 percent is cleared to 0 right?
then. with the additional machineries and methods used to clear this land. 0 clearly falls to -20 percent.
then along come the plantation and all the machineries. producing a negative value due to manure and all that.
leading down to a further fall of -80 percent. The biofuel produced to counter this would be a mere
50 percent. (which is actually alot when estimated, supposed figure could be only 30) 
so it falls to -30 percent. or if anyone wanna place the saved carbon of 50 percent. to any amount from 1-79. go ahead 
Since a rainforest can last almost forever. lets say. 100 year. It have 1000 percent efficiency.
If it is used for biofuel. -30 percent could result in. -300 percent efficiency. Most of you'll may not agree with me coming up with a sum and judgement of my own. but trust me. research showed that no matter what. there'll be a negative value in it.
If you're still not convinced enough. in the long run. a forest last 100 year. a plantation may only last 60 years. unless the farmer continually fertilise the land. which in turn again. leads to more carbon emission.

Water used for the plants. simple. the processing of water itselves poses a very big issue

Next. is food more important for fuel? as i previously mentioned. Food may be a plus-point to growing economies. But what if the country have a lack of food for its population? africa for example. or even china. If  "food" is exported as biofuel. away from the already starving population. who would be the one to gain and who would be the one who loses it all? This is an internationally debated issue and there's no doubt that biofuel would lead to a decrease in food for poorer countries.

Deforestation. do you guys need me to explain?i hope not.  as we trickle and hit the forest with our plans. We cut down their trees. and their habitat gets swollen. Animal's food chain itselves would fall. these natural habitat would be variedly affected. micro-organism would have changed their behaviour. and soil would be more and more prone to soil erosion. 

Biofuel itselves if were built and implemented for a world-wide usage. it would require 75% of the world's cultivated land. figure that

biofuel is less efficient in energy production in vehicles. and almost the same price.

trust me on this. countries would abuse human rights and forces everyone to work in the biofuel field. It's like growing a biofuel field being compared to a oil rig. all black gold. who wouldn't abuse human to get black goal? same concept. gold mining itselves have already been prove to attract working rights abuse.



alot more to go. but i'm tired. who would read this anyways.





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[info]nousefor_it wrote:
Apr. 23rd, 2008 02:26 pm (UTC)
haha its my personal endevour. its fun. surprisingly.

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