biofuel Alternative Energy
This post is just to remind myself of some things:
1) bio-ethanol gasoline or gasohol - from food crops like sugar and cassava
2) biodiesel, from oil-producing crops like coconut, castor kernel and oil palm.
Thailand, India and China and Japan, have all launched national gasohol policies.
Work is also underway in Indonesia and Philippines to "go gasohol"
Thailand started in 1985.
- 4000 stations serving alternative fuel.
Currently they blend 10 percent ethanol into gasoline (mandated by the end of the year.)
Import ban on MTBE (the petrol based fuel additive that ethanol replaces.)
Japan's Environment Ministry is following suit. Proposing a plan to require the car fleet to use 10 percent ethanol by 2030.
China is making 10 percent blends mandatory in 5 provinces. (this accounts for 16 percent of the nations passenger cars). This is part of a national energy policy unveiled in January, requiring China to boost renewable consumption to a fifth of total consumption by 2020.
In Philippines, biodiesel is known as cocodiesel.
Indonesia intends to raise and invest 35 billion SGD over five years for biofuel production and distribution.
Indonesia is focused on biodiesel from palm oil.
Apparently 3/4 of the biofuel funds will be used for oil palm production???
Indonesia wants to replicate Malaysia's succes in the Envo Diesel programme which is expected to produce up to 500,000 tonnes of biodiesel made up of 5 % palm-oil-derived diesel and 95% petroleum-derived diesel.
Virgin forests may be cleared for plantations?
And this is tricky because in biofuel production, the effect on carbon dioxide intensity is actually greater due to the removal of absorption of CO2 by the forests.
Another concern is that fuel-crops may compete with food-crops which maybe morally ambiguous given malnutrition and under-nutrition (there is a difference in the region.?)
However the article cites that the use of Jatropha may be a good comprommise as it grows in poor soil and will not compete with food-crops... still what about the virgin forests?
Reference:
The article was written by: Chua Hearn Yuit and Jardine Wall For the Straits Times.
Source: Straits Times Saturday, July 22 2006 S14 "Review"
1) bio-ethanol gasoline or gasohol - from food crops like sugar and cassava
2) biodiesel, from oil-producing crops like coconut, castor kernel and oil palm.
Thailand, India and China and Japan, have all launched national gasohol policies.
Work is also underway in Indonesia and Philippines to "go gasohol"
Thailand started in 1985.
- 4000 stations serving alternative fuel.
Currently they blend 10 percent ethanol into gasoline (mandated by the end of the year.)
Import ban on MTBE (the petrol based fuel additive that ethanol replaces.)
Japan's Environment Ministry is following suit. Proposing a plan to require the car fleet to use 10 percent ethanol by 2030.
China is making 10 percent blends mandatory in 5 provinces. (this accounts for 16 percent of the nations passenger cars). This is part of a national energy policy unveiled in January, requiring China to boost renewable consumption to a fifth of total consumption by 2020.
In Philippines, biodiesel is known as cocodiesel.
Indonesia intends to raise and invest 35 billion SGD over five years for biofuel production and distribution.
Indonesia is focused on biodiesel from palm oil.
Apparently 3/4 of the biofuel funds will be used for oil palm production???
Indonesia wants to replicate Malaysia's succes in the Envo Diesel programme which is expected to produce up to 500,000 tonnes of biodiesel made up of 5 % palm-oil-derived diesel and 95% petroleum-derived diesel.
Virgin forests may be cleared for plantations?
And this is tricky because in biofuel production, the effect on carbon dioxide intensity is actually greater due to the removal of absorption of CO2 by the forests.
Another concern is that fuel-crops may compete with food-crops which maybe morally ambiguous given malnutrition and under-nutrition (there is a difference in the region.?)
However the article cites that the use of Jatropha may be a good comprommise as it grows in poor soil and will not compete with food-crops... still what about the virgin forests?
Reference:
The article was written by: Chua Hearn Yuit and Jardine Wall For the Straits Times.
Source: Straits Times Saturday, July 22 2006 S14 "Review"
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