Abstracto

Technological, economics, and policy issues relating to biofuels

Sarah Mary*

With the goal of determining the technological level of maturity and societal readiness for a sustainable transition toward a biobased economy, this chapter evaluates biofuels from the perspectives of technology, economics, and politics. The analysis in this chapter demonstrates how there are several competing biofuel technologies that differ in terms of feedstocks, refining processes, and, most significantly,