Biofuels are fuels that are made from plants or waste, and they’re officially the wave of the future. Imagine making a car go using a potato… You couldn’t just plug the car into the potato, though—you’d need biofuels processing technicians to use industrial machines to extract the fuel from the potato. These techs usually find themselves working for energy companies that specialize in researching and developing alternative fuel sources. As a biofuels processing tech, you’ll work in laboratories or factories, operate and maintain the extraction machines, and organize routine safety inspections. It’s a very hands-on job, and one that you only need two years of college to get started in. So if you want to work in an industry that’s helping to keep our world happy and healthy, then biofuel is the name of the game.
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By using plants for fuel, we reduce conventional fuel’s byproduct of gasses that are harmful to the environment—and theoretically, we could keep growing more plants, thus never running out of clean, environmentally friendly energy.
Newsflash: Fossil fuel sources (oil and coal) are finite, and will one day run out. Current car engine designs are a big reason for this—in 2010, there were around 250 million registered vehicles in operation, and a vast majority of them run on oil-based fuel.
