Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel ethanol»

Coal - powered ethanol refineries can lead to higher greenhouse gas emissions than the fossil fuel ethanol is intended to replace.

Not exact matches

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

If ethanol runs a negative energy balance, as asserted by some critics (including those nattering West Wing characters), then the enterprise is doomed: What is the point of wasting fossil fuels that could be consumed directly somewhere else?

From the start, the ethanol industry has been dogged by concerns about its net energy balance — whether ethanol requires more fossil fuel to make than it replaces.

The researchers, who found that ethanol requires 29 percent more fossil energy than it provides, question the morality of using grain to fuel cars in the face of world hunger.

The past year looks like the turning point when alternatives to fossil fuels — everything from solar energy, wind turbines, ethanol, and the hybrid car — finally hit the mainstream.

While the project is focused on ethanol, the company says it is optimistic that its efforts will pave the way to try similar emission controls for fossil fuels like coal.

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

Searchinger's outlook is bleaker: He estimates that the rise in corn - based ethanol production in the United States would increase greenhouse gases, relative to what our current, fossil - fuel - based economy produces, for 167 years.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

Plant - derived biofuels such as ethanol offer renewable - energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

And, as with the corn - ethanol debacle unfolding before our eyes, the alternatives to fossil fuel will simply never fill the gap between current and assumed future demand and supply of energy.

For ethanol there is in deed a big question here, but the DOE study on biodiesel claims that you get 3.5 units of biodiesel energy out for each unit of fossil fuel energy you put in; with better technology and crops, it can ge better.

We could start by phasing out all subsidies for the production of fossil fuels and ethanol.

The only issue I see with ethanol is that it depends somewhat on crop growth, and fossil fuels are used heavily to make modern fertilizer.

The reason a listening tour is the next step, and not a pre-packaged batch of legislation or other steps, is to build on the common ground across a wide range of Americans on energy thrift, innovation and fair play (meaning policies that distort the playing field, with mandated corn ethanol production and tax breaks for fossil fuel companies prime examples).

Setting aside the fact that in many cases clean energy competes on its own merits — for instance in the case of well ‐ situated wind farms and Brazilian sugarcane ethanol — this analysis shows that the global direct subsidy for fossil fuels is around ten times the subsidy for renewables.

Trillions are spent on war where oil is the key political factor, hundreds of billions on subsidies for rich companies that reap huge short - term profits, both in fossil fuels and pseudo-green technologies like corn ethanol and biodiesel.

When energy consumers, like Japan's gov» t, decide that it's better to spend a bit more money on limitless and safe ethanol, solar, wind, water, or geothermal power than on limited and dangerous fossil fuels, then the energy industry will change because it must.

In Brazil, fossil fuels are not part of biofuel production, while in the U.S., corn ethanol production relies heavily on fossil fuels.

[ANDY REVKIN comments: I'm pretty sure they've changed over to using all ethanol fuel, which is a step in the right direction ONLY if the fuel is from crops grown and harvested without using a lot of conventional fossil fuel.]

Therefore 90 % of the liquid fuels used to produce the ethanol is from fossil fuels.

Hate to burst your bubble, well maybe not, but ethanol, solar, wind are all old technologies that haven't come close to the efficiency of fossil fuels.

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

Despite that, I believe sugarcane ethanol is a good option for mitigating a portion of our fossil fuel usage because it is renewable, and it lacks the negative externalities of fossil fuels.

Yet those same people may have no problem believing that we are going to transition our fossil fuel infrastructure to a cellulosic ethanol infrastructure.

The fossil fuel inputs into ethanol production are also largely non-liquid (natural gas and coal).

The other concern is the high degree of embedded (and unsustainable) fossil fuels required for grain ethanol production.

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.

In 2005, President George W. Bush and American corn farmers saw corn ethanol as a promising fossil fuel substitute that would reduce both American dependence on foreign oil and greenhouse gas emissions.

We start with a minimal approach that would tax all fossil fuel inputs of bioenergy including those used to manufacture fertilizer for corn grown for ethanol.

Mandates and subsidies for fossil - fuel intensive biofuels such as corn - derived ethanol are so large that eliminating or reducing them would almost certainly do more than a carbon tax to curb these fuels» artificial price advantage.

The report claims that the corn ethanol refinery industry will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental -LSB-...]

The capacity of corn ethanol to offset U.S. fossil fuel use is extremely limited.

Burning biomass, whether directly as wood or in the form of ethanol or biodiesel, emits carbon dioxide, just like burning fossil fuels.

Sugarcane - based ethanol has a superior net energy ratio, but it is still low compared to fossil fuels.

It does not release carbon that would otherwise stay stored underground, as occurs with fossil fuel use, but when starch, such as corn, is used for ethanol production much energy, including fossil - fuel energy, is consumed in the process of fertilizing, plowing, and harvesting.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plan to replace fossil fuels with ethanol and other low - carbon fuels through a «clean fuel standard» — expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 30 million tonnes a year by 2030 — faces mounting opposition, especially from a powerful lobby south of the border.

His door is always open to the bosses of big fossil fuel corporations and closed to those representing renewables (except his ethanol - producing mate Dick Honan).

The report comes as mounting environmental concerns cloud the benefits of using ethanol as a green alternative to fossil fuels.

«Phasing out current subsidies for wind, solar, ethanol, and fossil fuels» could be meritorious on its own, but how much does this generate, and does it even pass a political laugh - test?

Analysis of the total energy input to produce ethanol from corn show that 29 % more fossil fuel input energy is require to produce one energy unit of ethanol.

Almost any biomass material can be converted to create methanol or ethanol, and these fuels burn cleanly with less carbon monoxide and higher octane than fossil fuels.

The methane is collected and sent via pipeline to an ethanol plant, where it replaces fossil fuels as a source of process heat.

Corn ethanol is mostly made with fossil fuel, and has been around for decades, so, is it no longer considered alternative?

Unfortunately, President Obama is following President Carter by seeking approval from the environmental movement by thwarting domestic fossil fuel production and promoting unreliable, uneconomic renewable energy sources of solar, wind, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.

The project benefits the local community by preventing odor in the surrounding areas, improving air quality through reduction of volatile emissions, and displacing fossil fuel dependency at the ethanol plant.

The list is long and worth many billions (sorry for caps); — GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGM (Carbon capture)-- NON-RECOVERY OF PUBLIC AGENCY COSTS — PETROLEUM EXPLORATION TAX CONCESSIONS — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE — DIRECT SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS — DIESEL FUEL REBATE SCHEME — EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS Ethanol production which is an energy sink)-- CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR FUEL OIL, — HEATING OIL AND KEROSENE — CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR AVIATION FUEL — EXCISE FREE STATUS FOR CONDENSATE — SUBSIDISED SUPPLY OF COAL - FIRED ELECTRICITY TO — ALUMINIUM SMELTERS — STATE ENERGY SUPPLY CONCESSIONS — ELECTRICITY PRICING STRUCTURES — SUBSIDIES FOR CENTRALISED GENERATION