19th century marks the evolution of transportation, ever since world saw many improvisation happened in transportation system. Whether it is commercial vehicle or personal vehicle, all need fuel to run and fuel comes from earth crust, which is considered to be Fossil Fuel. Fossil Fuel is not only used in Vehicles, it is used majorly in power production, house hold activities, Industrial applications and many more. Burning Fossil Fuels produces many greenhouse gases and that leads to global warming and this is happening from past a century. Global Warming brings extreme weathers, rise in ocean water level and that happens due to melting of polar ice and other extreme impacts. To overcome such effect we need alternative energy source that reduces the problem that already exists. The solution is Bio-Fuel, produced from plants, plant wastes, human wastes like used oil and used vegetables, plant products like sugar, molasses, corn, soybeans. Bio-Fuel is no different than Fossil Fuel even that produces green house gas and only difference is that it can be produced again and again. To produce enormous Bio-Fuel, we need to grow more crops and more crops means more land and this again leads to deforestation and other climatic changes. On the other hand it is like worsening global weather more than what is happening from burning Fossil Fuels.
The chart below shows how growing energy needs encouraging countries around the world produce Bio-Fuel. We used data from U.S Energy Information Administration website, that includes data on Bio-Fuel production across countries from 2000 to 2016. We will concentrate on top economies in the world and what is there contribution towards Bio-Fuel Production.
The Chart above represents United States and Brazil share towards Bio-Fuel production. About 90% of world’s total production is produced by these countries. In 2000 it was less than 200 thousand barrels per day and every year it is increasing and in 2016 it is recorded more 500 thousand barrels and US alone crossed more than 1 million barrels per day. Before 2000 demand for Bio-Fuel was very less, most countries even didn’t start production itself. As demand for energy increased, production also increased. It is estimated that coming five decades most of Fossil fuel reserves gets exhausted and we have limited time to switch to renewable source of energy. Bio- Fuel is not a complete option, with advantages it has lot of disadvantages too, to meet world energy need, huge amount of Bio-Fuel production is required, which in turn need equal scale of crop production, huge land requirement and demand for crops brings in land and food shortage, those leads to food riots all over the world. Production and consumption of Bio-Fuel should be handled intelligently by authorised bodies; should be used to fill the shortage is Fossil Fuel supply. Instead of consuming Bio-Fuel as next alternative source of energy, we have consider it as temporary source until world shift completely to renewable source energy like solar and wind.
The chart above shows how major economic countries increasing there Bio-Fuel production year to year. The increased trend should be controlled, just to fill the gap the fossil fuel is creating and push us towards renewable source of energy.
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