Liquid Biofuels: Current status and future opportunities for Spain
One of the issues of greatest concern to the global agenda is to control gas emissions greenhouse gases responsible for climate change. The replacement of fossil fuels by renewable energies is particularly relevant for the fulfillment of environmental commitments of our country. Liquid biofuels must inevitably play a decisive role in the overall response to global warming, the transport sector has huge weight in CO2 emissions. An energy solution for the transport sector in the short term is to replace gasoline and diesel by bioethanol and biodiesel, and long-term motor vehicle with flex hybrid, which allows the use of gasoline and ethanol interchangeably.
The speakers argued that the future of transportation not feasible without liquid biofuels. The enormous weight that the transport sector has on CO2 emissions justifies specific actions to promote development of liquid biofuels as a response to global warming.
These actions, which should involve moderate costs, become short-term commitments to maintain the respect for mixtures around 5% today to 10% in 2020, while favoring the use of water vehicles (fuel and electricity) and flex vehicle (fossil fuels and biofuels). In the long term, with an expected scenario of high oil prices, appreciate that the best way to reduce risk of high costs is the complementarity electricity and second generation biofuels (lignocellulosic) as energy sources for transportation.
The strategy also requires a proper farm management, water, soil, respect for natural areas, a considerable investment in R & D, and internalization of emissions via carbon taxes and trading. While the transition to renewable energy is inevitable in the long term, it is expected that growth occurs in the absence of government intervention.
Ollé Raquel Martin.
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