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Biofuels - What are they and are they any good?

Biofuels – What are they and are they any good?

By John on March 9, 2009

As the term suggests, bio-fuels are fuels that are formed when biological matter, primarily plants, decomposes. Bio-fuels can exist in all the three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas.
Bio-fuels are different from fossil fuels in the following ways:

Fossil fuels take millions of years to form whereas bio-fuels can be made extremely quickly, in a [...]

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