Biofuel refers to the specific type of fuel derived from the natural sources such as plants, organic materials, animal wastes. Biofuel industry is gaining substantial attraction as alternative fuel for the petroleum derived fuels in order to mitigate major concerns of global warming, raised due to the fossil fuels. Primary sources of biofuels include soybean, corn, forestry, agricultural crops, also the waste from food services as well as ago industries. These fuels are available in solid, liquid, or gaseous forms and are chiefly used in various end use applications counting generation of energy, transportation fuels, lubrication & greasing, cooking purposes, charging of electronics and others. Some of the commercially used biofuels are biomethane, bioethanol, and biodiesel where in biomethane is manufactured by using domestic and agricultural wastes, bioethanol is produced from sugar beet, wheat, and algae. Further, biodiesels are manufactured using animal fats, algae lipids and veg
after castro being gone about whether or not that place is better off without the castros, with a real democracy? well, i think we re since we have spent 45 years, we looked at this under a very, very long time line. so if you look at the cuba under batista and the changes the castros initiated, those are useful changes. the real tragedy is that the ideals, things that i agree with, i think that you might agree with, universal free education, better health care for everybody, the island. they never really got a chance to put into practice. there were some early years back in the 70s when fidel bet everything on the sugar crop. the sugar prices were at an all-time high. the money was flowing in. they were building schools, hospitals. they were doing the type of stuff that we want to do here in our country. then the united states took, and we dumped our sugar reserves on the world market, crashed the sugar price, blew the bottom out of the cuban economy. the soviet union collapsed,
egypt s lower house of parliament will convene its first session since the fall of hosni mubarak nearly a year ago. italian officials say search and rescue efforts will continue on the costa concordia but also say the environmental risk is becoming urgent. rescue divers found another body on the cruise ship sunday, bringing the death toll to 13. 19 people are still missing. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain vergee and world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. this is world business today. top stories on monday the 23rd of january. research in motion s co-ceo steps aside. and greece, are debt talks growing on? and kim dotcom is back in court. the two chief executive officers of research in motion have resigned. the company s share prices scraped lows we haven t seen since 2004 after a series of missteps angered investors. ramy inocencio, our asia business analyst, joins us with the lates
the price of sugar has also been shooting up.u.n. food agency sugar index rose more than 5% from december to january. it s been going up steadily since last may. the fao says the high prices are caused by tight supply around the world. part of that shortfall is due to the destruction of nearly a quarter of australia s sugar crop during cyclone yasi. north queensland grows 90% of that country s cane crop. sugar prices are actually particularly significant for emerging markets. we ll take a look at the biggest sugar-producer nations. brazil produces the most, 39 million tons, followed by india, china, the united states and thailand. now, speaking of prices, consumer price rises here in the uk have showing little sign of slowing down. the uk just released its latest inflation numbers. the consumer price index, the main measure of inflation rose to 4% in january.