The EU has targets for biofuels. They would like to see them have a 5.75% share of the road market by 2010 and 10% by 2020.
2010? That’s next year! Is that very likely?
Not if the “Environmental Audit Committee” in the UK has anything to do with it. Last year, they said that the EU should forget about their targets, as they claim that biofuels are damaging the environment instead of saving it.
Read more about their findings at BBC News.
It’s really a logical step if you think about it. There are petrol-driven generators and diesel-driven generators, so why not make one that uses bio-ethanol?
That’s what Germany’s Frauenhofer Institute have done according to this article, although they are referring to the item in question as a “fuel cell”.
They hold up to 300 litres of bio-ethanol and can generate 250 Watts of electricity. One idea for their use is in developing countries, eg. in hospitals. But perhaps there will also be a demand for this sort of generator in industrial countries as well.
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