Bio Fool

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Bio Fool

• A Plausible Estimation task

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What fuel did Henry Fords Model T car first run
on?
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What fuel did Henry Fords Model T car first run
on?
Ethanol a biofuel!
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What fuel did Rudolf Diesels engines first run
on?
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What fuel did Rudolf Diesels engines first run
on?

• Peanut oil

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What crop is being shown here?
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What crop is being shown here?
Sunflowers
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What crop is being shown here?
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What crop is being shown here?
Rapeseed
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What is biofuel?

• Biofuel is fuel which has been made from living
  things or their by-products.
• Examples are cow-dung and maize
• In the UK, the main biofuel crops will probably
  be wheat, sugar beet and rapeseed which
  produces oil

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Who produces biofuel?

• The EU used to produce too much food
• Farmers are now paid NOT to grow things
• The land they dont grow things on is called Set
  aside land.

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Bio Fool

• Most diesel car engines will run on a mixture of
  20 biofuel and 80 diesel.
• Rudolph says If we grow rapeseed on set aside
  land in the UK, we will be able to provide 20 of
  all the diesel used for road transport.
• Explain to Rudolph why his idea wont work!