Apart from the reduction of a country as regards the dependence on fossil fuels, renewable and biofuels do not contribute to global warming.

Crude Oil Prices have continually increased and rising tensions in West Asia, the supply of an important part of the world oil supply, has not helped. To make a contribution, oil-importing countries are worried about casting for alternatives to at least reduce their dependence on “black gold”.

Ahead of them, the enviable example of Brazil. Brazilian cars - and even the appearance of small planes - were either to pure ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) or ethanol-gasoline blends. The use of ethanol stabilized price of gasoline in Brazil, the country save some $ 50 billion, they spent the rest of import of oil during the last 30 years or so and creates estimated one million rural jobs , Says the World Watch Institute in its 2006 World State of the magazine. Combined with greater national oil, Brazil, it is expected that the energy self-sufficiency this year.

“Dramatic increases in biofuels is almost certain in the coming years,” predicts the World Watch Institute.

Apart from the reduction of a country as regards the dependence on fossil fuels, biofuels also have other benefits. As it from plants, they can be renewed. Biofuels of the legislation is not, as fossil fuels like coal and oil, completing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and thus contribute to global warming. Burning biofuels does not provide the carbon dioxide that plants from the atmosphere for photosynthesis.

After the first oil shock in early 1970, a group in Indian Space Research Organisation Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram came on a technology, so as not to edible oil crops, which they regard as “raw space. The liquid fraction of oil could contribute to the manufacture of gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil and lubricating and the proportion of gas to cook. While the technology has emerged promising foundered large-scale production due to problems of preserving large quantities of oilseeds at a reasonable price.

The presentation of these days in India is that bio-diesel. The country is the demand for diesel is five times higher than gasoline. Rapid economic growth has led to more people travel more than ever, and larger quantities of goods transported. The demand for petroleum products in India, particularly diesel, has been increasing rapidly, Leena Srivastava, executive director of the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), headquartered in New Delhi. More than 80 percent of passengers and 60 per cent of goods were established on the road, she stressed in a recent publication on TERI biofuels.

The Government believes that the country requirements for diesel engines 2011-12 has perhaps more than 66 million tonnes, a fold increase over 2001-02. TERI believes that India would need to cross Diesel 100 million tons by the year 2020 and 200 million tonnes in 2030.

Today, most diesel engines by refining oil, but it should be noted that Rudolf Diesel developed his revolutionary engine compression performance of vegetable oils. Even now, some types of diesel engines can not on other vegetable oils, says Udipi Shrinivasa of the Indian Institute of Science. Prof. Shrinivasa has efforts to popularizing the substitution of oil seeds from the tree pongamia pinnata (also known as `Honge ‘and` Karanja “) for diesel engines in the village of Power-generation, and irrigation pumps.

But diesel engines in modern vehicles do not tolerate vegetable oils. These engines are designed to operate with diesel oil obtained, which is less thick as vegetable oils unchanged, “says LM, a professor at IIT Delhi’s Centre for Energy Studies. Vegetable oils do not burn well in this type of engines and they also have an impact on different components of the engine, he adds.

The preferred option is, therefore, modify chemically vegetable oils and convert to bio-diesel, more similar to conventional diesel. Bio-Diesel is easy from a variety of vegetable oils and even cooking oil and animal fat. Europe, biodiesel from sunflower and rapeseed, soybean oil U.S., Thai country of palm oil and, more recently, a bio-diesel plant opened in the Philippines, the use of coconut. But given that India does not have enough cooking oil for its needs, a planning team Commission Communication on the development of biofuels, which submitted its report in 2003, found that bio-diesel in this country should non-edible oilseeds.

The Planning Commission Commission proposes setting a target of 20 per cent of the sale Blended bio-diesel (ie a mix would be 20 per cent of bio-diesel and 80% diesel-based oil) from 2011-12. This mixture could contribute to the rescue of over 13 million tons of diesel oil obtained in this year alone.

Several plants in India, including pongamia pinnata, neem, rubber, Kastor and seeds with a non-edible oils, which can be used to produce bio-diesel. But the plant is to generate great enthusiasm for this effect, it is Jatropha curcas. “Jatropha is the first choice because it may in both saline and alkaline soil, arid and semi-arid conditions of low slopes of hills and areas of degraded land and abuse,” HM Behl, a researcher at National Botanical Research Institute Lucknow, in a paper in the TERI publication on biofuels.