Why biodiesel makes sense as an alternate fuel source?
Up to now no alternate fuel source has been developed commercially other than biodiesel. One of the main problems is the huge investment required to change the design of engines and infrastructure needs from the existing one. In most cases engine design, fuel delivery design, fuel storage design, fuel delivery design etc have to be changed. In the case of biodiesel, investments in such changes are minimal and the same infrastructure can be used. It thus makes changing over economic and easy. This is the single most important reason for the acceptability of biodiesel as a fuel worldwide. Governments are giving their full backing to this fuel because it meets their objectives of reduction of emissions and particulate matter from renewable sources.
