News for you. http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=94503 *biodiesel 生化柴油 -- Biofuel increasingly competitive if oil surge lasts Posted online: Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 0000 hours IST PARIS, JUNE 22: Biofuels would be increasingly competitive if crude o il prices, which are back near all-time highs, were to go beyond $60 a barrel, officials at the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday. Soaring oil prices have encouraged major consumers worldwide to sharply increase their use of ‘green’ biofuels, made from sugar cane, vegetable or grain oils. But in most parts of the world the additional costs for producing biofuels make the fuel uncompetitive without hefty tax rebates from governments. “Biofuels are getting more competitive due to the surge in oil prices but these would need to be somewhere between $60 and $100 a barrel for biofuels to be competitive without subsidies,” IEA biofuel specialist Lew Fulton said after a seminar on biofuel options. US crude oil futures hit another all-time record on Monday at $59.52 a barrel as worries over fuel demand festered amid limited US refinery capacity. An exception is Brazil where ethanol, made from sugar cane, is competitive without subsidy when oil prices are at $35 a barrel, said Brazil's ambassador to Paris, Sergio Silva do Amaral. The IEA renewed its estimate that all biofuels - ethanol and biodiesel - had the potential to reach 10% of world fuel use for transport by 2025. But Fulton said a more realistic estimate was that global ethanol consumption should be between four and 5% of gasoline use by the end of the decade. “That would be a very big achievement but a lot will depend on oil prices,” he said. Last year the world produced about 30 billion litres of fuel-ready ethanol from fermenting and distilling mainly sugar or corn. In oil terms, that’s more than 500,000 barrels per day (bpd), 2% of global gasoline use. —Reuters ※ 引述《spreed (又一天過去了)》之銘言： : 最近因為石油漲價的很誇張 : 讓不太注重能源政策的台灣政府也稍微有了一些動作 : 具我所知前兩天報紙有報宜蘭某鄉要種原料作物 : 來試驗開發生化柴油,還有忘記再哪裡看到的 : 目前每公升生化柴油成本約為60元/1L算相當的高 : 算還沒辦法應用的階段 : 想請問關於生化柴油or生化能源這塊領域 : 在目前or未來15年之內 : 有沒有辦法應用到產業之中? : 因為我現在只算一個學生 : 不太理解到底實驗室跟應用到底有多大的差距? : 希望大家一起討論一下 --

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