Sentences with phrase «as ethanol»

Federal law mandates that oil companies use 12 billion gallons of renewable fuels such as ethanol in this year, rising to 15 billion gallons by 2015.

Plant - derived biofuels such as ethanol offer renewable - energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

Well, that in total is bigger than the impact of ethanol, and the offshore part is about as big as the ethanol, but is it a lot?

As I have pointed out before, the next phase of fuels will actually cause more pollution as ethanol percentages increase.

At the same time, currently existing biofuels, such as the ethanol produced from vast fields of corn, are a very inefficient use of energy and land.

The study argues that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumers.

In June 2011, the ethanol industry voluntarily ended the main corn ethanol tax credit, known as the VEETC, as well as the ethanol import tariff.

Solubilities range widely, from infinitely soluble such as ethanol in water, to poorly soluble, such as silver chloride in water.

A key inflationary factor is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate.

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).

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.

Previous research has suggested that alcohol can cause carcinogenesis as the ethanol in alcohol metabolizes into acetaldehyde, which damages DNA and prevents DNA repair.

Their results indicate that using Miscanthus as an ethanol feedstock could significantly boost biofuel production in the U.S. while greatly reducing the acreage devoted to them.

Around 40 percent of the corn grown in the United States is used as ethanol in our gasoline.

During the whiskey maturation process, at least 2 % of whiskey escapes from a barrel as ethanol vapor — perfect for Baudoinia to thrive.

As an example, if oil is high, $ KORN will rise as ethanol becomes more desired as an alternative source of fuel.

Scientists have experimented for decades with a class of catalysts known as zeolites that transform alcohols such as ethanol into higher - grade hydrocarbons.

«This application could be considered a sensor by software, as the ethanol present does not respond directly to the sensors used, which only respond to the ions present in the solution,» outlines the researcher.

But yields from a grass that only needs to be planted once would deliver an average of 13.1 megajoules of energy as ethanol for every megajoule of petroleum consumed — in the form of nitrogen fertilizers or diesel for tractors — growing them.

Fructose causes most of the same toxic effects as ethanol because both come from sugar fermentation.

According to Byrdie, you should away from toners with synthetic fragrances, alcohol (also listed as ethanol or ethyl alcohol, denatured alcohol, methanol, isopropyl alcohol, SD alcohol, and benzyl alcohol) and any cleansing properties (like a cleansing water - in - one or a micellar water) as those can be irritating if applied too many times.

Loopholes such as the ethanol trick and other special (legal) ways of calculating mileage that don't appear on a new car's window sticker, but do count toward CAFE, might effectively make the 2025 limit 45 mpg.

In fact, the real answer to such cost issues is bioethanol, which is the same stuff as ethanol but is made from wood or plant wastes like cornstalks.

They would have to collude to fix their prices (as the ethanol lobby always claims grocery chains do when the price of food spikes), which is illegal.

It's interesting, as ethanol starts to gain more interest as gas prices continue to rise, the price of high fructose corn syrup is going up as well, so that makes soda something that's «too cheap» as well.

Armed with data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he looked at a range of chemicals such as chlorine, chloroform, ammonia and sulphuric acid, as well as ethanol, acetone and methyl ethyl ketone.

But that is the effect of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), more commonly known as the ethanol mandate.

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

But you can make a very good case for this as a blending agent,» much as ethanol is currently used.

Cho said previous research has suggested that alcohol can cause carcinogenesis as the ethanol in alcohol metabolizes into acetaldehyde, which damages DNA and prevents DNA repair.

As ethanol feedstock, corn costs $ 1.20 per gallon and sugarcane just $ 0.85.

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

Certain substances are soluble in all proportions with a given solvent, such as ethanol in water.

Biofuels from waste avoid the carbon and energy debts incurred by more common examples such as ethanol from corn or diesel from soy.

The actual cause of the inferno is still unknown, it was gathered that the fire started from the powerhouse of the agency and spread to the warehouse, where chemicals such as ethanol were stored.

The «plus» at Corn Plus is ethyl alcohol, better known as ethanol.

Finally, making changes in sorghum's cell wall composition could greatly increase the yield of fermentable sugars that can then be converted to fuels such as ethanol.

But the shape theory doesn't explain why some nearly identically shaped molecules smell vastly different, such as ethanol, which smells like vodka, and ethane thiol (rotten eggs).

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

The process of dissolving, called dissolution, is relatively straightforward for covalent substances such as ethanol.

The Renewable Fuel Standard requires increasing amounts of biofuels such as ethanol to be blended into U.S. gasoline and diesel supplies through 2022.

Being able to collect more protein product from yeast could lead to cheaper biopharmaceuticals, such as insulin, and biofuels, such as ethanol.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

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.

But making that dream a reality could harm local environments and would require developing new technology to harvest, process and convert such plant material into biofuels such as ethanol.