Sentences with phrase «us ethanol production»

When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

Subsidies could also impact your grocery bill in the near future: the diversion of soybeans, corn and other edibles to ethanol production leaves less farmland to feed an every - growing world population.

Due to the demands of ethanol production, the corn ETF ($ KORN) is also influenced by what crude costs.

«The uses for corn in ethanol production coupled with drought conditions throughout the Midwest growing regions have led to dramatic price increases affecting everything from prepared foods to animal feed for our dairy and meat products,» he states.

In the feedlot, cattle are primarily fed grains like corn and soy and distillers grains which are a byproduct of ethanol production.

A strategic decision was made at the time by the government to switch to ethanol production in order to fuel the Brazilian fleet.

Using Patzek's methodology for every aspect of ethanol production save the conversion process itself, a gallon of Corn Plus ethanol consumes less energy than it contains — even before factoring in credit for coproducts.

In another experiment, bagasse was used as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.

A more realistic, if still optimistic, scenario sketched by the National Corn Growers Association anticipates that corn ethanol production will quadruple to 16 billion gallons by 2015, not quite 7 percent of the likely demand.

Reynolds even believes that if ethanol production hits 10 billion gallons and consumers embrace E85 — the 85 percent ethanol mix — a dedicated pipeline from the Midwest to the East Coast could make economic sense, although the conventional wisdom remains against him.

By 2001 every BTU consumed in ethanol production generated 67 percent more energy, when coproducts like distillers» grains are taken into account.

Between 2003 and 2007, corn - based ethanol production in the United States rose from 2 billion to 5 billion gallons.

Two recent reports noted that corn - based ethanol production is upping food prices and consuming worrisome amounts of water.

(Worse, use of ethanol instead of gasoline does little to reduce net carbon emissions once the energy - intensive full cycle of ethanol production — including the energy - intensive fertilizer and transport needs — is taken into account.)

While ethanol currently makes up less than 4 percent of the motor fuel used nationally, the corn used in ethanol production constitutes 14 percent of the domestic crop.

Global ethanol production tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters.

Since then, corn ethanol production has more than doubled to about 36.5 million gallons per day — meaning ethanol already is nearly 10 percent of U.S. fuel supply.

The cellulosic ethanol process we developed was unique because it did not require multiple processing steps and the use of expensive laboratory - modified enzymes, the ethanol bioprocessing system uses significantly less water and energy in ethanol production resulting in larger yields per ton of biomass.

Corn - based ethanol doesn't meet that test and won't benefit from the new standard, CARB says, because diverting corn into ethanol production increases deforestation and the clearing of grasslands.

Part of the $ 150 billion, 10 - year expenditure — the centerpiece of his energy plan — is to develop these resources as well as shift ethanol production from corn to cellulose - based sources that do not affect the food supply.

At a biofuels energy symposium hosted by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies last week in Washington, D.C., professor Jerald Schnoor said corn ethanol production facilities require large quantities of high - purity water during the fermentation process.

This water is obtained from underground aquifers, and as ethanol production reaches a fever pitch in Iowa, the state's water supply is threatened.

Selfa thought that had these communities been aware of ethanol production's impact on the local water supply, support for the plants may not have been as strong.

Specifically, the most suitable regions to grow bioenergy grasses in terms of impact on water (and ultimately ethanol production) are eastern Ohio, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and the Northern Atlantic regions.

Corn stover — the stalks, leaves and cobs in cornfields after harvest — has been considered a ready resource for cellulosic ethanol production.

AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only plants.

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

Farmers make the fuel by chemically treating corn kernels to isolate the sugars and then feeding the sugars to yeast, which digests them and secretes ethanol.Not only do the corn husks and stalks go to waste, but ethanol production has driven up the price of the corn that is used for food by reducing its availability.

Since transportation and storage of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in ethanol production.

«When you look at what our ethanol production is and compare that against what our demand for transportation fuels is, we won't get there,» says Virginia Lacy, a biofuels consultant at the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit energy policy organization in Colorado.

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's in areas where there are lots of cattle (and the large amountsof manure they inevitably give back to the world) that companies are bestequipped to divert animal waste from contaminating the air (via methane, CO2, and ammonia gases) and water towards fueling ethanol production.

«(i) is in one of the following industrial sectors: ethanol production; ferroalloy production; fluorinated gas production; food processing; glass production; hydrogen production; iron and steel production; lead production; pulp and paper manufacturing; and zinc production; and

The redox - sensing protein Rex modulates ethanol production in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum — Tianyong Zheng — PLOS One

Our TransFerm and TransFerm Yield + bioengineered yeast products are widely used in the corn ethanol industry and our next generation products are ready to deploy for industrial cellulosic ethanol production.

Celanese Corporation, developer of a hydrocarbons - to - ethanol production process derived from its acetyl technology (earlier post) announced plans in June to enter the industrial ethanol market in China by revamping the market entry strategy to allow the company to enter 6 - 12 months sooner than originally planned.

Cellulosic ethanol will allow ethanol production from lands not suitable for crops.

Each center's goal is aimed at establishing technologies to ease cellulose - to - ethanol production by overcoming obstacles using woody materials.

Life - Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of U.S. National Scenarios for Cellulosic Ethanol Production, Corinne Scown, William Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes Lobscheid, Eric Masanet, Nicholas Santero, Arpad Horvath, Thomas McKone, Environmental Research Letters, 7 (1), doi: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/7 / 1 / 014011, January 24, 2012.

Worldwide, policies that promote ethanol production encourage the conversion of grasslands and rainforests into farmland.

Future harvest of corn stover for cellulosic ethanol production would increase erosion (i.e. sedimentation) and nutrient loads from corn land, they said.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

* U.S. ethanol production falls 32,000 bpd to 872,000 bpd * U.S. weekly ethanol stocks rise to 18.8 mln barrels (Corrects recent high in ethanol futures to three - year high from record high, paragraph eight) By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 13 (Reuters)- U.S. ethanol production fell 3.5 percent while stocks climbed in the latest reporting week, despite profitable margins at many biofuel refineries.

To reduce costs, we recommend regional concentration of E85 blends for future ethanol production and use.

MLPs on brokerage firm Stifel's buy list include Green Plains Partners (GPP, $ 18, 11.0 %), which owns and operates storage tanks, terminals and other facilities for Green Plains Inc., the world's second - largest owner of ethanol production plants.

As a result of the jump in ethanol production, less corn is available for food or livestock feed.

Another factor putting upward pressure on food prices is rising ethanol production.

Ethanol production has boomed in the U.S. since the late 2000s, largely due to heavy government subsidies.

Biofuels PACE buys down the interest rate on loans to biodiesel and ethanol production facilities and livestock operations.

Contrast that to the government pouring billions into ethanol production because of warming hysteria.