Isn biodiesel outperformed by competing products?
Biodiesel of the first generation is now, and probably will remain, the most significant regenerative fuel for a number of years. It will take at least ten to twenty years for biodiesel of the second and third generation to be produced in volumes of five million tonnes pa., if they ever do. The question is whether enough of the biomass needed by the second generation will be available then, for there are fears of an insufficiency of supply, towards which we are already tending, due to competition for raw materials from the biogas, energy-conversion and heating installations that already exist and those still being planned.
