Reply #2: Bio diesel is an organic diesel fuel [View All]

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The immediate use would probably be to partially replace diesel fuel made from petroleum. I'm sure there are issues with supply that others can explain better than me, but it's a substitute for diesel fuel that can be used in diesel engines.

As for the environment, it is supposedly less toxic than table salt.

For greenhouse gas emissions, it is net CO2 neutral. Since it comes from plants, it is not adding carbon to the ecosystem. The plants that created it used CO2 from the atmosphere in the process.

OTOH, when we pump oil out of the ground or mine coal and burn it, the carbon that was locked up underground for millions of years is added to the ecosystem as CO2 as a net increase.