Sentences with phrase «as biofuels while»

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

Not exact matches

Icahn's efforts last year to overhaul the biofuels program - while acting as an adviser to Trump on regulatory issues - drew scrutiny from federal investigators after lawmakers said it raised ethical concerns.

While biofuels are better in the long run, the study says they won't meet a standard set in a 2007 energy law to qualify as renewable fuel.

Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.

«Coles also recycles chicken fat and doughnut fat as animal feed, low - grade industrial lubricants and biofuels, while organic food waste is recycled as compost, animal feed or converted to fertiliser or gas by Earthpower.

Federal investigators have issued subpoenas for information on Carl Icahn's efforts to change biofuel policy while serving as an informal adviser to Trump, according to regulatory filings.

While the Air Force experiments with camelina - based biofuels, the engineers here have tested chicken fat as a jet fuel.

For example, the metabolically engineered microbes that are sometimes used to produce biofuels and chemicals are currently subject to genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations, while the molecules they produce are subject to chemical regulations such as the Toxic Substances Control Act in the United States and the regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) in Europe.

While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and his co-authors see a reasonable prospect for conserving, and restoring, forests and other stressed terrestrial ecosystems even as humanity exerts an ever greater influence on the planet.

But as things stand, while there are many people working on next - generation biofuels that could meet the criteria above, the vast majority of the biofuels made in the U.S. are not particularly green.

While biodiesel from used restaurant grease is great and would ideally be of a scale that would use all such waste, I have yet to see how biofuels will work well on a large scale as an industry in a global market.

While it is all fine and dandy to promote alternative energy sources such as windfarms and biofuels, I think it's safe to say that those types of technologies are not able to support American's huge demand for energy.

A recent biofuel program actually wiped out jobs rather than creating them as intended, while costing taxpayers a lot of money.

Naturally, (according to the FT, the Green party in Finland and Greenpeace in France still campaign against nuclear energy, while in Sweden the FT reports («The inconvenient truth about an oil - free society») the Greens have got the government to plan to log 1.15 mn hectares a year of its 20 mn hectares of forest for use as biofuel to reduce current dependence on oilfired energy and transport.

As noted earlier, eliminating biofuel mandates and subsidies while uprooting the false assumption of carbon - neutrality from EPA's Clean Power Plan would do more to reduce the unfair advantages of bioenergy than even the most inclusively - designed carbon tax.

Consequently, the policy encourages the use of better biofuels, biogas, and electricity, while disincentivizing dirtier sources, such as tar sands.

[3] Helioculture allows for brackish water or graywater, nonindustrial waste water from sources such as baths and washing machines, [4] to be used, while traditional biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol require fresh water.

While novel biofuels research has produced simple but effective uses for agricultural waste, possibly in China, perhaps most nations will see proven solar and wind technologies as more progressive.

This is all a great shame because it distracts readers from the real value of the book, in which Zehner asks the question: «Why do the options of wind, solar, and biofuels flow from our minds so freely as solutions to our various energy dilemmas, while conservation and walkable neighborhoods do not?

This is not only incorrect, but ironic, given that developing countries that use wood for fuel that leads to deforestation is counted as contributing to climate change, while Europe and most states in the US count emissions from «modern biofuels» as carbon neutral.»

The result is that the two most positive provisions of the energy bill — a clean energy mandate and a tax package reining in handouts for fossil fuels and promoting clean energy — are being removed while detrimental provisions, such as a radical five-fold increase in unsustainable biofuel use, remain.

Meeting the new goals would require shippers to significantly increase fuel efficiency and to shift to low - and zero - carbon fuels such as biofuels or perhaps hydrogen, while adopting new propulsion technologies, some of them still unproven.

Only last month we saw headlines from two studies arguing that land use changes may nix any environmental benefits of many biofuels, while they have also been singled out as a contributing factor in the looming food crisis.

John McCain — while paying lip service to greater use of wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuels — clearly and consistently believes that in the near future (certainly in the time he would be in office) greater reliance on nuclear power as well as increased offshore oil drilling is the path to increased energy independence in the United States.

While the JCs call for lower pay and benefits, they pay as much as $ 150 per gallon for «green» jet fuel to prop up left wing campaign supporters and their insane business scams that bilk taxpayers over non-existent man - made global warming with «green» biofuels that are so expensive nobody can buy them but the government.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.