根据第一段“Processing such plant oils into biodiesel (生物柴油) for transportation and heating could be a big part of a more sustainable future.(将这些植物油加工成生物柴油,用于运输和供暖,可能是一个更可持续的未来的重要组成部分)”可知,植物油比化石燃
C Scientists have figured out how to make large amounts of oil from duckweed(浮萍).Processing such plant oils into biodiesel (生物柴油) for transportation and heating could be a big part of a future looking for clean energy. Researchers could use duckweed plants to produce seven times more oi...
Biodiesel is not pure vegetable oil. Although raw vegetable oil has been used to fuel diesel engines in the past, it has usually caused problems. The raw fat or oil must first undergo a series of chemical reactions in order to become fuel. There are a few different ways to make biodiesel...
Oil plants also supply the raw materials for biodiesel production. Soybean, rapeseed, sunflower, camelina, and palm are typical biodiesel sources. Due to palm trees’ high yield potential, the palm oil cultivation industry is constantly expanding....
An additional benefit of diesel engines is that they can burn biodiesel, which can be derived from crops such as soybeans, using less energy than is needed to create another currently popular biofuel: ethanol from corn. Farther down the road may be hybrid diesel cars, which could potentially...
says they’ve helped convert field pennycress into a rotational cash crop for the Midwest, allowing farmers to grow three crops in two seasons. The oil from the crushed grain is a lower-carbon-intensity feedstock for renewable fuels including biodiesel and aviation fuel, and its meal is a high...
The first major advantage is that biomass power plants produce renewable energy that is less harmful to the environment than conventional fuels. Oil and natural gas are finite natural resources, unlike agricultural crops such as corn and soybeans, which can be continually replenished. ...
PMFCs could garner enough investor and government interest to become the power plants of the future -- or plant the seed for an even better idea [source:Deng, Chen and Zhao]. French friesbiodieselrecycled vegetable oil Walker Thomas
A slightly different approach to alternative fuel efforts comes from Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young. In 2004, he went on tour using vehicles that ran on fuel partially made of soybeans[vi]and vegetable oil. While this may seem odd, the biodiesel industry was created by soyb...
Whereas soybeans generate roughly 50 gallons of biodiesel per acre, algal species can produce up to 8,000 gallons per acre per year, according to Michael Briggs, a PhD candidate in physics who investigates biodiesel production at the University of New Hampshire. Biodiesel: cultivating alternative ...