14 DAY TRIAL // For quite a long time, environmentalists have been going on and on about how society must rid itself of the habit of burning run-off-the-mill fuels in order to power their cars.
However, several researchers working with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology now wish to emphasize the fact that not all biofuels are as environmentally friendly as those producing them would have us believe.
Especially if one is dealing with biofuels based on agricultural products.
This is because, in order to obtain the raw materials needed for crop-based biofuels, manufacturers more often than not find themselves having to drench soils in nutrients.
Thus, growing crops in order to provide for the biofuels industry can often lead to environmental pollution.
“Most biofuels therefore just deflect the environmental impact: fewer greenhouse gases, thus more growth-related pollution for land used for agriculture,” one specialist told members of the press.
On the other hand, biofuels made from residues and waste materials do in fact manage to reduce pollution and have very little negative impact on the natural world.