108 Studies on Green Fuel Generation from Renewable Resources Dishary Banerjee 1+ , Lima Chaudhuri 2 , Mayurketan Mukherjee 2 , Snehadri Chatterjee 1 , and Tapan Kumar Ghosh 3 1 Undergraduate Student, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata 2 Graduate Student, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata 3 Assistant Professor, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata Abstract. Fossil oil supplies have permitted an exponential rise in human populations across the world and are consumed in every aspect of modern life. But the impending shortage of fossil fuels and the environmental problems have aroused some other alternative forms of energy. As a consequence, the demand for alternative renewable sources have been intensified in substitution of the rising demand for energy and raw materials[1]. The aim is to develop a method for the production of ecofriendly fossil fuels since the other industrial methods used for the fossil fuel development with increasing greenhouse gases emission scenario and anthropogenic activities poses a huge challenge to our agriculture, water resources and economy. In this sense, the project aims to study the characteristics of cashew apple bagasse and to verify its potential uses for ethanol production. At the initial stage, physicochemical characteristics of the cashew bagasse are carried out, following which it was incubated with Saccaromyces cerevisiae at 37ºC for around 48hours for the verification of the capacity of the biomass for ethanol production. Keywords: ecofriendly, ethanol, cashew apple bagasse 1. Introduction Fossil oil supplies have permitted an exponential rise in human populations across the world and are consumed in every aspect of modern life. Oil use is unequal: the USA consumes about 22 barrels of oil per person per year while the consumption of some developing countries is as low as 3 barrels of oil per person per year. China’s population, a quarter of the world’s total, is expected to increase by an extra 200m people by 2030. To raise their living standards to a European level is likely to increase Chinese oil demand fivefold. This could mean that their increased demand alone would be the equivalent of about 46% of today’s total global demand for oil. At the same time, even the (very conservative) International Energy Agency predicts a fall in global oil production to about half today’s levels by 2030, as fossil oil reserves are depleted further (the world passed the point of peak oil production in the mid 2000s). Today’s global inequalities in wealth and access to resources are only likely to increase – with severe implications for the health and material well-being of whole nation states. Responses to declining fossil fuel sources must be completely sustainable, yet also easily replace the many uses of fossil oil. Producing biofuel from a waste product like cashew apple bagasse is expected to reduce human dependence on fossil oil with benefits that address issues of:  Climate change  Energy security  Sustainability + Corresponding author. Tel.: +919674778566 ; E-mail address: disharybanerjee0409@gmail.com 2014 1 st International Congress on Environmental, Biotechnology, and Chemistry Engineering IPCBEE vol.64(2014) © (2014) IACSIT Press, Singapore DOI: 10.7763/IPCBEE. 2014. V64. 20