Bioenergy as Fuel for Transportation - By: Jenna Jones

With the buzzwords of bioenergy and bioenergy products on everyone's lips today, it isn't a wonder that so many people seek ways and means to make it a more common product in everyday life. If in the 60's going green was considered a impossible dream, today the installation of green products is considered a must for those who wish to save their planet. What interests lots of people now is biofuel and biogas for their vehicles, especially after that much-publicized BP fiasco just a while ago.

While electric and hybrid cars are definitely becoming extremely well-liked, they are still rather expensive and also use electricity to charge up. It can be considerably more practical and logical to refit the present cars to run on alternative fuels. Where can these be found? The green fuel is already here as exemplified by ethanol from corn, sugarcane, soy beans and coconuts. There are even biofuel which can be produced by processing plastic bags that you can find litering whole areas all over the world.

While there may be less processing required for "virgin" biofuels that come directly from the plant sources, the additional steps to create fuel from trash will be well worth it. Processing the trash is a great method for it not just helps solve the problem of trash it also will also help in producing fuel. Getting garbage out of the way and converting it into fuel will solve two problems at one time. This isn't an impossible dream anymore. Japan and Korea are the very first to implement this as a rule. Their governments have even gone as far as to convert their garbage trucks to run on biofuel that was processed from the same garbage they collect. Inorganic and organic trash are separated by an auger after which the organic materials are given a dose of healthy bacteria which hurries up fermentation. The result's a hot and bubbling mass that's then put through excessive heat to separate the alcohol. Everything is utilized. The mash is needed for compost which can be shipped to commercial farms and inorganic waste is incinerated then reused when mixed with concrete for roads and parking lots.

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