Even though bioethanol is an outstanding renewable engine fuel, it is more suited to Otto gasoline (petrol) than to farm diesel engines. Electricity may be generated from a range of renewable sources including wind, wave, hydro and biomass, but on-farm generation is unlikely except on a small-scale or on the basis of specialized energy or wind-power farms.
Steam engines were widely used for only about fifty years between 1870 and 1920. After 1900 they were rapidly displaced by internal combustion engines and electric motors. Tractors came into widespread use in North America after about 1920, but coexisted with horses for roughly twenty-five to thirty years. Except for Great Britain, where tractors began to be adopted in the 1930s, the tractorization of European and Japanese agriculture was delayed until about 1955, after which it happened very quickly.

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Even though bioethanol is an outstanding renewable engine fuel, it is more suited to Otto gasoline (petrol) than to farm diesel engines. Electricity may be generated from a range of renewable sources including wind, wave, hydro and biomass, but on-farm generation is unlikely except on a small-scale or on the basis of specialized energy or wind-power farms.
Steam engines were widely used for only about fifty years between 1870 and 1920. After 1900 they were rapidly displaced by internal combustion engines and electric motors. Tractors came into widespread use in North America after about 1920, but coexisted with horses for roughly twenty-five to thirty years. Except for Great Britain, where tractors began to be adopted in the 1930s, the tractorization of European and Japanese agriculture was delayed until about 1955, after which it happened very quickly.

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