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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Not exact matches

Because labeling laws on homeopathy are so different from regulations on real medicine with proven ingredients, the only actual drug in a bottle of homeopathic medicine — ethanol, the same active ingredient in vodka — doesn't have to be listed as a drug.

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

With the help of government subsidies, companies are investing in converting wood fibre (known as biomass) into ethanol and diesel.

There are an estimated 65,000 of the older cars, known as DOT - 111s, currently hauling oil or ethanol in a largely integrated North American fleet — up to a third of which are being used in Canada at any given time.

Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

Politico describes Rastetter as an «agribusiness mogul who's made a fortune in pork, ethanol and farm real estate.»

In response, the Asian giant proposed fresh duties on as much as $ 3 billion of U.S. products, including wine, fruits, nuts, ethanol and steel pipes.

ICLN holds a portfolio of «clean energy» companies, which it defines as those involved in the biofuels, ethanol, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind industries.

Mr. Icahn stepped down as an unpaid adviser to President Trump in August, after scrutiny from members of Congress about whether he was influencing regulations on ethanol to benefit his financial investments.

Hemp can also have applications in biofuels as it can efficiently produce ethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuel blends.

As a business owner in renewable energy, I'd wager to say that most business - minded environmentalist think ethanol subsidies are a giant waste of money and damage the environment to boot.

In order to completely isolate the reb A, ethanol or methanol are used as a solvent to allow separation through crystallization.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

For other recipes beware that extractives (such as vanilla) are usually extracted in corn - derived 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.

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

In the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reportIn the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reportin a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reports.

Right now ethanol is used mostly as a fuel additive; about one - third of the gasoline sold in the United States contains a shot of ethanol (about 10 percent, typically) to reduce automobile emissions.

«The idea is that a small reduction in alcohol — such as beer with four per cent ethanol content versus six per cent — would reduce alcohol intake per drinker even if the same overall amount of beverage is consumed,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, lead author and Director of the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting tests but has yet to certify ethanol as a fuel for piston - engine planes in the U.S., says Lourdes Maurice, chief scientist and technical advisor to the FAA's Office of Environment and Energy.

19 Sure enough, astronomers found vast quantities of ethanol — as much as that in 400 trillion trillion beers — in G34.3, an interstellar cloud some 10,000 light - years from Earth.

In nature, the resilient lignin polymer helps provide the scaffolding for plants, reinforcing slender cellulosic fibers — the primary raw ingredient of cellulosic ethanol — and serving as a protective barrier against disease and predators.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

They then dipped lengths of electric cable into solutions of the chemicals dissolved in ethanol, and checked whether caged mice gnawed these as much as they did cable dipped in ethanol alone.

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

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.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

Several US states, such as California, have laws requiring a 20 % -30 % ethanol blend in gasoline, which also helps reduce emissions of ultrafine particulate matter.

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

While both can be obtained from petroleum or natural gas, ethanol may be the most interesting because many believe it to be a renewable resource, easily obtained from sugar or starch in crops and other agricultural produce such as grain, sugarcane or even lactose.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

Professor Duncan Wass, whose team led the research, said: «The alcohol in alcoholic drinks is actually ethanol — exactly the same molecule that we want to convert into butanol as a petrol replacement.

Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the United States in 2008, twice as much as in 2006.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food priceAs attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food priceas well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food priceas the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

Enzymes, genetically engineered to avoid sticking to the surfaces of biomass such as corn stalks, may lower costs in the production of cellulose - based biofuels like ethanol.

Additionally, ethylene and ethanol could serve as the building blocks for a range of consumer goods, and CO2 - derived formic acid could be used by the pharmaceutical industry or as a fuel in fuel cells.

«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.

Atalla finds that briefly soaking corn stover (the leftover parts of the plant, such as husks) in a solution of sodium hydroxide, ethanol, and water changes the molecular structure of the cellulose, allowing him to convert nearly twice as much of it as is possible with existing methods.

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 concentratioIn 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 concentratioin length when exposed to new environments, such as solutions of ethanol that vary in concentratioin concentration.