Sentences with phrase «as biofuels»

Governments must enhance deployment programmes, especially for technologies with the greatest potential such as biofuels and solar energy.

You've undoubtedly seen estimates about the crop yields of various plants for use as biofuels.

These are also known as biofuels, i.e. plants that would otherwise potentially go to feed people (or grown on land that would otherwise grow food) going into gas tanks instead.

The researchers suggested these species could only be safely used as biofuels within their current ranges.

The harvested algae will then be converted into usable products such as biofuels, fertilizer and animal feed.

If you are growing crops to be used as biofuels, then, by definition, you are not using that land for any other purpose.

Growing crops for fuel — known as biofuels — represents another potential way of cutting GHGs by replacing fossil fuels (biofuels created underground by nature over millions of years).

Their research raises the possibility that household pests like mosquitoes, rats, cockroaches and flies could be used as biofuel sources.

Numerous industrial processes such as biofuel production and food processing depend on healthy microbial communities.

She worked with former postdoctoral researcher Stephanie Watts - Williams, assisting her in a project to understand how underground fungi could be used to increase the growth of sorghum plants for use as a biofuel feedstock.

The nation's energy portfolio is expanding to include larger investments in wind, solar, and tidal energy, as well as biofuels such as algae and fuel crops, presenting new conflicts and tradeoffs.

One such application is the production of ethanol as a biofuel.

Ward works to produce a wide range of enzyme and protein products for such diverse industries as biofuels, food and textiles.

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That left 25 types of plants with wide - ranging potential as biofuels, said Doria Gordon, the director of conservation science at the University of Florida.

(The lab's third Ph.D. student, Joanna Ciszewska - Marciniak, works on pathogens that attack willows, another crop that is becoming more important as a biofuel source, with funding from Poland's science ministry.)

The algae grow quickly, tolerate extreme weather conditions and do not pose the same issues as biofuel crops that are grown both for fuel and food.

Fortunately, there are ways to remove crop residues for use as biofuels while increasing soil fertility.

The companies maintain that they do not see seaweed as better than other types of algae, just as another biofuel option.

But corn is problematic as a biofuel source material.

Investigation has shown that diatom oil can be used as biofuel without further processing, says Ramachandra — another advantage.

Biofuels makers and other scientists are trying to exploit this ability to churn out quantities of materials that might serve as biofuel.

In addition to its application as a food oil, palm oil and biomass from the oil palm has applicability as a biofuel, and biodiesel including palm oil methyl ester is in use across the globe.

GILBERT: I'd like to take that exact system and apply it to coal, in order to make more methane that we can then capture and pump into people's homes as biofuel.

Isobutanol is a flammable compound that can be used as a biofuel due to its high energy density and suitable physical and chemical properties.

Using corn as a biofuel seems like a good idea in principle.

The aim of the new study, then, was to combine ecological and economic models into one, to get a better sense of the potential costs and benefits of grasses as biofuels.

For example, people in the surrounding countries use much wood, grass and agricultural wastes to cook with, which the team categorized as biofuel.

To keep the wattage flowing, spent falafel oil was used as a biofuel backup.

That share is likely to fall as oil prices drop, analysts Energy Intelligence predict, particularly as biofuels rely on government support, which is waning in some parts of the world.

Ethanol producers are panicking amid speculation that the ethanol mandate could be drastically reduced or scrapped entirely this year as the biofuel loses its allure and bipartisan allies and former...

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.»

Investing in alternative fuels is not only good for the environment, it's a smart move for our company as biofuels have the potential to hedge against future oil price volatility and carbon regulations.

Specifically the policy of burning food — maize as biofuel — has contributed to sharp rises in food prices which are causing great hardship in many countries and is also now leading to increased deforestation in Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Togo, Cambodia, Nigeria, Burundi, Sri Lanka, Benin and Uganda for cultivation of crops».

Eco-friendly palm oil could help alleviate poverty in Indonesia (4/3/2007) The Associated Press (AP) recently quoted Marcel Silvius, a climate expert at Wetlands International in the Netherlands, as saying palm oil is a failure as a biofuel.

In fact, not only would slowing deforestation and protecting carbon - rich ecosystems allow Indonesia to potentially earn billions of dollars a year from carbon markets, it would also reduce national exposure to price fluctuations of sawit kelapa, as well as the potential risk of European backlash against sawit kelapa as a biofuel.

Directive 2003 / 30 / EC, more popularly known as the biofuel directive (or the Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport) is voted on becomes effective in May.

In meeting the challenge of achieving the 20 - year deadline, there is a long way to go as biofuel is yet to be produced on an industrial scale.

The buzz around biochar is crazy these days, with some claiming that biochar could offer healthy soils and carbon sequestration, while others argue that the biochar business could be as dangerous as biofuels.

Palm oil has become a competitor as biofuel not only with rapeseed products but also a real competitor to fossil fuels controlled by Western interests.

On the one hand, the oil's renewable source and application as biofuel make it an appealing alternative, but on the other, some of the most

(09/10/2008) Plunging palm oil prices are increasing its attractiveness as a biofuel feedstock and thereby helping buoy demand for the oilseed, reports Reuters.

Now we've seen bagasse used to make disposable cutlery and plates and even as a biofuel for power stations, but this is the first time we've seen it used to make sturdy structures.

The algae are then harvested, and can be used or sold as biofuel.

Biofuels offer one possibility for reducing the carbon footprint of these transport systems, but many plants grown as biofuel feedstocks compete with food crops and / or wild lands.