Sentences with phrase «when ethanol»

When ethanol is burned, its carbon is converted to CO2, just as in fossil fuels.

Results indicate that when the ethanol content of the fuel increased, the emissions of gaseous organic compounds increased whereas the amount of aromatic compounds such as benzene and toluene decreased.

Federal and state subsidies for ethanol helped keep the fuel in production when ethanol prices fell with crude oil and gasoline prices in the early 1980s.

We're supposed to believe that ethanol has conferred a giant boon on consumers even though gasoline prices have increased as ethanol production has increased, and even though gas prices hit their all - time high when ethanol production hit its all - time high.

When ethanol diverts the already - growing maize to biofuels to run the automobiles, those maize fields do not absorb any additional carbon, and the automobiles still emit roughly the same quantity of carbon dioxide.

This artefact can be explained by the fact that this ice is from an ice - core section drilled towards the end of the season 2002 — 2003, when an ethanol — water mixture had to be added at the bottom of the borehole to allow further drilling.

Making ethanol from corn reduces atmospheric releases of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide because the CO2 emitted when the ethanol burns is «canceled out» by the carbon dioxide taken in by the next crop of growing plants, which use it in photosynthesis.

When ethanol is added to the gas the mileage is not as good.

Ethanol proponents claim that ethanol will deliver equal or better gas mileage than gasoline, when ethanol is used to fuel an engine optimized to take advantage of ethanol's superior combustion characteristics.

When ethanol dissolves in water, the ethanol molecules remain intact but form new hydrogen bonds with the water.

When ethanol prices at the pump rise for whatever reason, it becomes economically advantageous for drivers of dual - fuel vehicles to fill up with gasoline.

In 1979, when ethanol was called gasohol, Lunz saw an ad in a newspaper for an on - farm ethanol plant.

I'm old enough to remember when ethanol blends first began to appear at gas stations.

Not exact matches

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.

Vodka's composition is almost evenly split between water and ethanol (to be exact, it is about 60 % water and 40 % ethanol) When you add it to any dough, it means that only a bit more than half of it (60 %) is active in gluten development.

When in crust, ethanol evaporates which results in flaky crust.

So, regarding the furosemide — my daughter was on the plain old liquid from the pharmacy when she was a newborn, which is 11.6 % ethanol.

Wednesday Carnahan is scheduled to be with Obama when the president tours an ethanol plan in Macon, Missouri, as part of his «White House to Main Street» tour.

When regular paclitaxel is given to patients, it is mixed with ethanol and castor oil derivative, and many patients develop an allergy to that additive (all patients are pretreated to prevent serious allergic reactions).

«When I first looked into the ethanol industry, there was this promise that the cellulose technology was just a few years away,» Lunz recalled.

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

Back in 1992, when I had started losing my hearing, a friend lent me a jar full of newly collected velvet asities preserved in ethanol to use for some anatomical research.

Regular ethanol breaks down over time when it sits in your tank, and turns viscous and sludgy in cold weather.

But the problem is that most of the ethanol we have right now is when it is talked about it being a first generation biofuel; that is that ethanol fuel is coming from the fermentation of sugars from crops like corn.

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

When you go to Washington to get stuff, sometimes you get the wrong stuff, like subsidies for corn ethanol — the wrong feedstock for the wrong fuel.

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.

«When we started our company 27 years ago with a bankrupt corn ethanol plant, there was the same question about that industry as there is about cellulosic: Would it ever be viable?»

Well, if you don't do things systematically, you end up doing corn ethanol in Iowa and thinking you solved the problem, when all you have done is really drive up food prices and encourage more people to plant palm oil, basically, in the Amazon.

Those enormous buds that bobbed in Nikolov's ethanol solution take nine months to form, and when they finally bloom, the flowers last only a week before turning into what Nikolov calls «a slimy mush» on the forest floor.

When tipsy females were at their most nimble, during their pre - and postestrous states, the ethanol had 10 % less impact on neurotransmitter activity than it did on the drunken males» neurotransmitters.

When Tom Vilsack was picked to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture, some environmental and organic groups grumbled that the former Iowa governor and proponent of ethanol was too close to large agribusinesses.

Copper is a catalyst — a material used to activate and speed up chemical reactions — and, while it aids in the production of ethanol when exposed to CO2 and water, it is not efficient enough to make large quantities of ethanol.

When the purse strings do open, they tend to support projects with well - defined constituencies: farmers whose corn can be distilled into ethanol to mix with gasoline, for instance.

When existing corn is used for ethanol, what comes out of the tailpipe doesn't change and what is taken out of the atmosphere doesn't change either because the corn would be grown anyway.

They didn't react to the ethanol, but when they smelled death, they quickly swam the other way.

Monroe Energy, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that operates the Trainer refinery complex in Pennsylvania, said the EPA's decision not to cut 2013 biofuel targets did not take into account that companies might need to carry over some ethanol credits for use in 2014, when it finalized the 2013 targets.

«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.

Biologists know that compared with flies from tropical Africa, flies from temperate regions such as Europe survive longer when exposed to ethanol vapors of high concentrations, and they know it has something to do with enzymes on the flies» second chromosomes, which break down alcohol and are more active in European flies.

In addition to being unusual architectures, these materials are stimuli - responsive: the DNA strands that hold them together change in length when exposed to new environments, such as solutions of ethanol that vary in concentration.

When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

Khanna says that a price on carbon would be one way to equalize the cost of using gasoline and ethanol for consumers when filling up their tank.

When residents of São Paulo chose gasoline over ethanol to fuel their vehicles, levels of ozone actually decreased, according to a Northwestern study.

If you don't do things systematically, you end up doing corn ethanol in Iowa and thinking you solved the problem, when all you have done is drive up food prices and encourage more people to plant, say, palm oil in the Amazon.

Brazil's ethanol roller coaster is a sobering example of what can happen when climate and energy planning clash with economic decision - making.

When the Tasmanian flies basked in 26 - degree climes, their alcohol tolerance — the percentage of ethanol in solution needed to kill half of them within 48 hours — dropped from 13.2 % ethanol to 8.8 % ethanol.

The plants, which include many grasses targeted for cellulosic ethanol, can be harvested when needed and, given their hardiness, grow on marginal land.

Microarray analysis was performed at different time points to determine yeast genome - wide response when exposed to salt, acid, hypoxic conditions, and hydrogen peroxide, as well as ethanol, isopentenol, and other biofuels candidates.

This membrane acts as a kind of mould which, when wetted briefly in water and then hand - shaken (yes, hand - shaken) from side to side in ethanol, sets and releases multiple self - rolled graphene oxide tubes — the basic building block of our micromotors.