Why renewable fuel?

The environmental problem

The cycle of nature

Globalisation

Population Development

Sources of energy

The environmental problem

Research scientists agree that within the next fifty to sixty years we in the western world should reduce the emissions from fossil energy by sixty to seventy percent. Otherwise there would be serious environmental problems and devastating consequences for our children and grand children.

Transport sector - the biggest problem
During the 90's measures had been taken to reduce the usage of fossil fuels in all areas, with the exception of the transport sector, where the consumption is still on the increase. In 1973, the usage of oil by the transport sector was only 20% of the total consumption, but today it is almost 60%. A gigantic environmental problem that has to be solved. The fossil emissions from 800 million vehicles are left behind for our children, grand children and great grand children. If we realise that we already have a problem now, one can imagine what is to be expected in the immediate future i.e. when five billion people are on their way to buy a car. The question is how long do we dare to bury our head in the sand.

The green house effect
In the green house a special climate is created and is used in cultivating things that cannot be cultivated directly by nature. The glass in the green house allows the rays of the sun to penetrate through, but the insulation helps to keep the heat from escaping. The thicker the ticker the glass, the greater the insulation, which in turn sustains more heat in the green house.
The climatic conditions on the earth work in the same way same manner and hence the term "green house effect". In the atmosphere there is a thin layer of "green house gases" that are similar to those in the green house. This is a system, which makes it possible for life on earth, and has been built up during the past four and half billion years. But about 100 years ago we began to manipulate the system. Combustion of coal, oil and gas has created an excess of carbon dioxide that was not part of nature's normal cyscle.

30% more of carbon dioxide
The different fuels do not disappear during combustion, thus posing a problem. Since they become a part of the system, coal is transformed into carbon dioxide thus being the foremost and the most recurrent "green house gas" Plants absorb carbon dioxide from bio fuels, which is later formed as a raw material for new fuel. Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is greater when compared to that from bio fuels. Today, we have 30% more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, prior to the usage of fossil energy i.e. before industrialisation.

From a national to a global perspective
The problem that we face today is totally different. We are no longer faced with a national problem, but a global one. Earlier we saw only the contamination of the sewage system and how its purification improved the environment. Today we see things in a different perspective. Carbon dioxide that the Indian and the Chinese emit is going to have extensive and devastating effects on our children. We are going from obvious emissions to many and diffused ones, which in turn implies long delays and complexities. We are standing before a pragmatic shift.