but also because of the prospect of fossil
resources exhaustion.
of plantation, and it is claimed that the reduction of CO2 emissions
does not compensate the competition with the food industry.
Therefore, the first-generation biofuels should be associated with
more efficient generation techniques or substituted by the
so-called second-generation fuels, i.e. those from lignocellulosic
biomass waste, (Klass, 1998).