(Latvijas Televīzija) Scientists of Rīga Technical University (RTU) work on new biofuel synthesis techniques, which could open up the possibility of producing such fuel in Latvia, Latvian Television reported February 16.
With global warming and climate change, the world is increasingly thinking of abandoning the use of diesel and petrol in the operation of vehicles.
There are two ways of doing that now: driving an electric car, which not everyone can afford at the moment, or developing the production of biofuels based on renewable resources.
Currently, in many parts of the world, oil of various plants is used for the development of such biofuels, but according to Valdis Kampars, director of the RTU Institute for Applied Chemistry, it shouldn t be done too much with materials that can be used for consumption: