Biofuels Flashcards
1
Q
What is biodiesel and ethanol produced from?
A
Plants
2
Q
How does the production of ethanol work?
A
Take sugar cane apply fermentation and you produce your fuel .
3
Q
What is the advantage about the method to produce fuel?
A
The sugar canes take in the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during the process of photosynthesis this is called carbon neutral
4
Q
Give economic and social advantages of biofuels?
A
1) jobs
2) low tech
3) low energy
5
Q
Give environmental advantages of biofuels?
A
1) carbon neutral
2) renewable
6
Q
Give disadvantages of economic and social uses of biofuels
A
1) food
2) crop failure
3) slow
7
Q
Give disadvantages for environmental uses for biofuels?
A
1) habitat destruction
2) reduction in biodiversity
