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Introduction Most of the energy used all over the world comes fro three sources - oil, coal, and natural gas. These are called fossil fuels, because they are made of rotted, semi-fossilized remains of living things from millions of years ago. Today's fossil fuels where created millions of years ago from plants that photocynthesised using the energy from sunlight which would then remove carbon dioxide from the air thus trapping it as chemical energy. After being squashed under highly immense pressure over the course of millions of years they formed into crude oil. We as a planet are using fossil fuels millions of times faster than they can be formed. A the present rate of use reserves of oil will run out in 100-200 years time and coal in 300-400 years. A biofuel is a gas, liquid or solid that is rendered from raw biological material such as plants, sewage, dry...

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