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Dealing with the nonrenewable nature of fossil fuels, and with the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on global warming, requires transformation of the energy sector toward renewable, carbon neutral resources. This chapter introduces the biofuel industry, which relies on the energy derived from living organisms or from their metabolic products, in the contest of global energy supply.
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Formighieri, C. (2015). Biofuels: An Emerging Industry. In: Solar-to-fuel conversion in algae and cyanobacteria. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16730-5_2
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