Sentences with phrase «based ethanol production»

Thus, if we expand corn - based ethanol production, we will be exchanging the variability associated with foreign oil with the variability associated with weather.

Another important question she takes on is the extent to which corn - based ethanol production could be increased.

Searchinger's outlook is bleaker: He estimates that the rise in corn - based ethanol production in the United States would increase greenhouse gases, relative to what our current, fossil - fuel - based economy produces, for 167 years.

Two recent reports noted that corn - based ethanol production is upping food prices and consuming worrisome amounts of water.

Between 2003 and 2007, corn - based ethanol production in the United States rose from 2 billion to 5 billion gallons.

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.

Not exact matches

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

Colorado - based Range Fuels received an $ 80 million loan guarantee from the USDA to help fund its refinery, which began production by making methanol instead of ethanol last year.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

Corn - based ethanol doesn't meet that test and won't benefit from the new standard, CARB says, because diverting corn into ethanol production increases deforestation and the clearing of grasslands.

Part of the $ 150 billion, 10 - year expenditure — the centerpiece of his energy plan — is to develop these resources as well as shift ethanol production from corn to cellulose - based sources that do not affect the food supply.

The recent achievements of the institute, based in southern India and with half a dozen hubs across Africa, include advances in pea hybrids and commercial production of ethanol from sweet sorghum.

AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only plants.

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.

In the second study, Timothy Searchinger, a researcher at Princeton University, looked at a future scenario in which the United States substantially increases its production of corn - based ethanol, a move that would decrease domestic crops for food and feedstock.

The Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car is based on the production Z06 — already one of the fastest and most powerful cars on the market — and is powered by E85, which consists of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

«With vehicles that span the spectrum from exotic prototypes to production - based cars and fuels that range from cellulosic E10 and E85 ethanol to clean diesel and hybrids, the Green Challenge is a true benchmark for race teams to compare their engineering capabilities,» said Steve Wesoloski, GM Racing Road Racing Group manager.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

Pimentel also was an early critic of grain - based ethanol fuel production.

Now I oppose ethanol production, but Clinton, Bush and the rest are correct that sugar ethanol makes a little more sense then corn base.

But if I had to choose new green subsidies that are based on ethanol production.

So the Duke team contrasted today's production practices for corn - based ethanol with what will be possible after the year 2023 for cellulosic - based ethanol.

Aurora is one of dozens of start - ups vying to bring an algae - based product to market that will be competitive with petroleum but does not take farmland out of food production, an issue that has plagued the corn ethanol industry.

Rather than subsiding the production of corn based ethanol the same money can be used to preserve and increase rainforest.

The Environmental Working Group's report, «Ethanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol prodEthanol's Broken Promise,» raises serious questions about the claimed environmental benefits of corn - based ethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol prodethanol, pointing out the millions of acres of grassland and wetlands converted to corn and the annual greenhouse gas emissions stemming from ethanol prodethanol production:

A trial at the Archer Daniel Midlands Company biofuel facility is currently removing 1 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by pumping CO2 from the production of corn - based ethanol into rocks 7000 feet below.

Reasonable questions are being raised regarding the sustainability of corn - based ethanol, and even 2nd generation industrial plantation based biofuel and biochar production; given finite land, fertilizers and water, and in the face of exponential increases in population and demand for energy.

Also please feel free to weigh in with your recommendations and / or concerns about the increased production of corn - based ethanol.

At this production level, corn - based ethanol would replace about 10 % of the volume (or about 7.2 % of the energy content) of the US gasoline supply.

Does it matter whether there is a net energy loss in the production of corn - based ethanol --- that is, it takes more fossil fuel energy to produce ethanol than the ethanol itself produces?

Thus, having a net energy loss is the production of corn - based ethanol is OK.

Is there a possibility of a better economic outcome, if the production of corn - based ethanol is greatly expanded?

There are a number of new approaches to producing corn - based ethanol, using more renewable energy in the production of ethanol (such as methane from waste products or wind energy).

The use of the renewable fuels in ethanol production will tend to give corn - based ethanol a more positive energy balance and will reduce the use of fossil fuels.

This simplistic model is not correct for the production of corn - based ethanol because fossil fuels are used in the growing of corn and the production of ethanol, and these contribute to global warming gasses.