Sentences with phrase «scale ethanol production»

Electricity would come from local, renewable sources such as small - scale ethanol production and an existing water turbine.

Qteros has a genetic - engineering program in place to optimize the microbe for use in large - scale ethanol production.

Not exact matches

Previously developed techniques for generating hydrogen from ethanol are best suited to large - scale production at specialized facilities, however, because they require external sources of heat.

Integrating cellulose and traditional ethanol production from starch or sugarcane is the most rapidly scalable approach to the large - scale production of cellulosic ethanol.

Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.

It's now well - established that large - scale U.S. production of biofuels such as ethanol from corn has accomplished little or nothing (or even negative) in its stated goals of reducing oil dependence and cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, and has functioned instead as a full - employment program for agribusiness (and a political production racket for Iowa and other corn - growing states).

«The Q Microbe technology offers numerous important advantages over other ethanol - producing microorganisms, which we believe provides the operational foundation for profitable, commercial - scale cellulosic ethanol production,» Qteros chief executive John A. McCarthy Jr. said in a statement today announcing the patent, which he said «underscores the significance and the unique nature of our technology.»

We acknowledged the bee situation in a post nearly a year ago, noting that the large - scale conversion of grasslands to grow crops for a number of uses was crowding out bees, butterflies and others — including increasing acreage being devoted to ethanol production.

Bloomberg Businessweek explains more clearly than EPA does why the agency had to back - peddle so furiously: «The Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring less cellulosic ethanol to be blended into gasoline next year than sought under U.S. law because production of the alternative fuel hasn't reached commercial scale.»

Investments in these next - generation ethanol pathways are being made across the United States, and are creating jobs through the construction of commercial - scale production facilities.

As corn prices have risen, refineries have scaled back production, idled dozens of plants and sold ethanol inventories.

While Vogel acknowledges that it will be difficult to set up «large - scale field trials... particularly for an extended period of time in a large geographical area,» he believes the 540 % figure could be increased further with better land management and breeding techniques and with improvements in cellulosic ethanol production technologies.