{"id":513477,"date":"2022-08-11T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T04:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=513477"},"modified":"2022-08-11T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:52:52","slug":"world-biofuel-day-significance-of-biofuels-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/world-biofuel-day-significance-of-biofuels-in-future\/","title":{"rendered":"World Biofuel Day: Significance of biofuels in future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The climate change and increasing health problems due to air pollution generated from the burning of fossil fuels, which are costly as well as scarce, have led to a rise in the popularity of biofuels or fuels derived from renewable sources like corn and sugarcane.<\/p>\n<p>India on Wednesday observed World Biofuel Day and Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a \u201csecond generation\u201d ethanol plant in Haryana\u2019s Panipat.<\/p>\n<p>The day takes inspiration from German engineer Sir Rudolf Diesel, who successfully ran on August 9, 1893, an engine on oil derived from peanuts. <\/p>\n<p>The fuel derived from the biomass of plants or animal wastes is known as biofuel. It is commonly produced from corn, sugarcane and animal waste like cow dung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The climate change and increasing health problems due to air pollution generated from the burning of fossil fuels, which are costly as well as scarce, have led to a rise in the popularity of biofuels or fuels derived from renewable sources like corn and sugarcane. India on Wednesday observed World Biofuel Day and Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a \u201csecond generation\u201d ethanol plant in Haryana\u2019s Panipat. The day takes inspiration from German engineer Sir Rudolf Diesel, who successfully ran on August 9, 1893, an engine on oil derived from peanuts. The fuel derived from the biomass of plants or animal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}