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At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewablefuelalternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. Tags: Forecasts Fuels Sustainability.
A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. The results are reported in an open-access paper in the journal Communications Biology.
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Although anaerobic digestion of organic material has been widely accepted as an important renewable energy technology, the production of Bio-SNG will required to move to higher levels of fossil fuel replacement, according to the report. Few other renewable vectors are as fungible, with so few demand-side constraints.
According to current legislation, member states must ensure that renewable energy accounts for at least 10% of energy consumption in transport by 2020. Commenting on the vote, European environmental NGO Transport & Environment noted that the lack of a mandate creates further uncertainty on the future of biofuels in Europe.
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