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| - | ====== Biofuels ====== | ||
| - | **BIOETHANOL**: is a corrosive and oxygenate ethyl alcohol, high purity, obtained from renewable plant material. | ||
| - | **BIODIESEL**: is obtained from oils, which may come from seeds, used cooking oil, or animal oils. | ||
| - | **BIOGAS**: Biogas can be obtained from organic waste garbage of cities; This gas is processed and used to generate electricity. | ||
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| - | __**OVERVIEW OF BIOFUELS GLOBAL INVESTMENT**__ | ||
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| - | Currently all renewables together provide about 19% of world energy. Of these only 0.8% of total energy comes from biofuels (updated to 2013 data). | ||
| - | Investment in biofuels had its highest peak in 2007 at 28.2 billion was the figure that year was devoted to new investments in biofuels. | ||
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| - | __**PRODUCING REGIONS**__ | ||
| - | **America**: leads in biodiesel and ethanol production; major producers: USA, Argentina, Brazil and Canada. **Europe**: France stands out as biodiesel and ethanol producer, ranking fourth and fifth respectively at the global level. | ||
| - | **Asia**: is rapidly increasing production of both. Indonesia is the fifth largest producer of biodiesel; while China is the third largest producer of ethanol. | ||
| - | **ETHANOL**: Global ethanol production in 2012 was estimated at 83.1 billion liters, 1.3% less than the volume of 2011 average world price of ethanol in 2012 was around 85 cents per liter. | ||
| - | **BIODIESEL**: In 2012 reached a level of 22.5 billion liters compared with 22.4 billion liters in 2011 The global average price of biodiesel by 2012 was around USD 1.5/litro . . | ||
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| - | __SOURCES__ | ||
| - | Global renewable energy investment trends in 2014 ; Frankfut School -UNEP Collaborating Centre. | ||
| - | Renewable 2013 Global Status Report. | ||