Biofuels as Alternative Energy Sources
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Looking for alternative energy sources
With unrest in oil-exporting countries, backlashes against biofuels and photovoltaics, and a nuclear incident in Japan, the year 2011 rattled confidence in future energy supplies. The search for alternatives is all the more urgent, but some of the solutions investigated hark back to fossil fuels that we can't afford to burn.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indo Global Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2249-1023
DOI: 10.35652/igjps.2014.79