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Fuel vs Biofuel - What's the difference?

fuel | biofuel |

As nouns the difference between fuel and biofuel

is that fuel is substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction while biofuel is any fuel that is obtained from a renewable biological resource, especially from biomass.

As a verb fuel

is to provide with fuel.

fuel

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel .}}
  • Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
  • (figuratively) Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
    • His books were fuel for the revolution.
    Money is the fuel for economy.
    That film was nightmare fuel !

    Derived terms

    * fossil fuel * fuel cell * nuclear fuel * solid fuel

    Verb

  • To provide with fuel.
  • To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.

    • Usage notes

    * Fuelled'' and ''fuelling'' are British, Australian, and New Zealand spellings. ''Fueled and ''fueling are US spellings.

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    biofuel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any fuel that is obtained from a renewable biological resource, especially from biomass
  • * 2012 , , August 24, p.20
    • Even second-generation biofuels , made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and in the ground.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "biofuel")