Science Museum | Biofuels in the future

Biofuels in the future

Scientists are developing biofuels to reduce the amount of carbon released over their life cycles, to minimise their harmful side effects, and to make them cheaper.

Using algae is one idea, and there are other proposals in the pipeline too...

Algae - top of the crops?

Scaling up algae biofuels

Other future biofuels

Improving today's biofuels

Image: Peter York