Sentences with phrase «because ethanol plants»

As a policy paper last year from the Association of Oil Pipelines and the American Petroleum Institute points out, the economics are also iffy, partly because ethanol plants are relatively small and dispersed.

Not exact matches

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

Plus, this process, reported in Nature, works faster than the several days it takes Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast to ferment plant sugars into ethanol, because it is chemically controlled and therefore can be completed in hours.

According to advocates from the Great Plains Institute, «Ethanol won't be a large source of CO2 over time compared to power plants, but it will be an important one because it can be an early participant in providing CO2 to the oil industry — there really are no technological barriers whatsoever.»

Making ethanol from corn reduces atmospheric releases of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide because the CO2 emitted when the ethanol burns is «canceled out» by the carbon dioxide taken in by the next crop of growing plants, which use it in photosynthesis.

Improved profit has led some ethanol makers to reopen plants that had been closed because they weren't making money.

Nuclear energy is a quick fix that could ruin the earth for future generations.Burning down the Amazon to plant other plants we can burn [ethanol and bio diesel] kind of defeats the purpose of trying to reduce CO2 because the Amazon is what will turn the CO2 back into Oxygen.