ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
RESOURCES
Vegetable fats and oils like
Algae oil can be used to make biodiesel. But their content of
fats and acidity is different. The palm oil as fuel is not like the
algae oil. Food uses make soybean oil the most used in absolute. But
the new technology and research is changing the production
potencials of algae oil.
In the following table is
reported the world oil consumption in million tons:
| soybean |
26.0 |
| palm |
23.3 |
| rapeseed |
13.1 |
| sunflowerseed |
8.6 |
| peanut |
4.2 |
| cottonseed |
3.6 |
| palm kernel |
2.7 |
| olive |
2.5 |
