Sentences with phrase «better than ethanol»

There is a renewable resource out there that would be much better than ethanol.

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An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

«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.

Scientists concluded that the change they found in the Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) protein could be the adaptation that allowed D. melanogaster to colonize ethanol - rich habitats in rotting fruit better than its nearly identical relative, Drosophila simulans.

Biobutanol advocates, including DuPont, say the fuel could work better in automobiles than the better - known ethanol and will be easier to transport.

We're learning now that not all ethanol is the same and that there may be better uses for corn than fueling cars.

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 prices.

For instance, the scientists found that E. coli modified with the prion version of Rho were better able to adapt to exposure to ethanol than could bacteria with normal Rho.

Afterwards, the supernatant was removed by a short spin of the plate bottom up at no more than 9 × g. To wash the pellet, 50 µl of 70 % ethanol was pipetted into each well and again the plate was spun bottom up at no more than 9 × g for 5 — 10 sec.

Ethanol proponents claim that ethanol will deliver equal or better gas mileage than gasoline, when ethanol is used to fuel an engine optimized to take advantage of ethanol's superior combustion characterEthanol proponents claim that ethanol will deliver equal or better gas mileage than gasoline, when ethanol is used to fuel an engine optimized to take advantage of ethanol's superior combustion characterethanol will deliver equal or better gas mileage than gasoline, when ethanol is used to fuel an engine optimized to take advantage of ethanol's superior combustion characterethanol is used to fuel an engine optimized to take advantage of ethanol's superior combustion characterethanol's superior combustion characteristics.

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While ethanol, for example derived from corn but distilled in a facility powered by coal was, in fact, on average worse, than gasoline, some of the envisioned cellulosic - based biofuels could be dramatically better on a g CO2 eq / MJ basis.

Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn/

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

When energy consumers, like Japan's gov» t, decide that it's better to spend a bit more money on limitless and safe ethanol, solar, wind, water, or geothermal power than on limited and dangerous fossil fuels, then the energy industry will change because it must.

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?

For example: How much grassland and prairies are plowed herbicided insecticided fertilized and otherwise molested into non existence to grow corn for biofuels, when grass makes better ethanol than corn anyway.

Biodiesel derived from soybeans, while expensive to produce, comes at a much lower environmental price and a much better EROEI than corn ethanol.

So no, the energy balance of sugarcane ethanol is not in fact better than that for gasoline.

The energy return on sugarcane ethanol as it has been calculated does appear to be in the 8/1 range, which would make it better than gasoline.

The Midwest does not have the highest solar potential in the country (that is found in the Southwest), but its potential is nonetheless vast, with some parts of the Midwest having as good a solar resource as Florida.75 More than one - quarter of national installed wind energy capacity, one - third of biodiesel capacity, and more than two - thirds of ethanol production are located in the Midwest (see also Ch.

Their agenda was to make the footprint of petroleum look much better than it actually is, and to make that of ethanol look much worse than it actually is.

Testing by the Coordinating Research Council (CRC), which has been the gold standard in fuels and vehicle research for the better part of a century, determined that millions of vehicles on the road today could suffer engine damage from using fuels containing higher levels of ethanol than for which they were designed.

I wouldn't exactly find it surprising if say to a question about how much of the mass of sugar goes towards CO2 and how much towards ethanol, the general public will be less well informed than scientists in general and scientists who publish on fermentation specifically.

There's a variety of positive reports coming out on the future of the industry — there's reports that see a meaningful future for ethanol, as well reports saying ethanol could be deliver a better - than - expected energy return.

Corn ethanol isn't perfect, but it's clean, American energy and is better than crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The ethanol mandate was born more than a decade ago of good intentions: to reduce tailpipe emissions as part of a larger strategy of tackling global warming.

Oh, and those Panhandle Feedlots are getting better cattle feed (distillers grains) Cheaper straight from the ethanol plants than when they were feeding straight corn.

The EPA's experts determined that corn ethanol was only modestly better than gasoline when it came to carbon dioxide emissions.

The author Emily Cassidy tweeted, «There are better ways to improve energy independence than the corn ethanol mandate.

When the Obama administration finalized its policy, corn ethanol scored 21 percent better than gasoline, barely crossing the key threshold.

Even cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass, which has been promoted by eco-activists and eco-investors as well as by President Bush as the fuel of the future, looks less green than oil - derived gasoline.

Whether or not ethanol is better than gasoline depends on the direct and indirect environmental impacts associated with the production, delivery, and ultimate use of each gallon of ethanol, including any changes in land use.

Butanol has a higher energy content per gallon than ethanol, and can be used directly in gasoline engines, making it a better choice.

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Industrial Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous estimates.

Based on a decade of research at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, a 2200 - hectare experimental ecological reserve operated by the University of Minnesota, Tilman said that diverse mixtures of plants that mimic the native prairie ecosystem are a better source of biofuels than corn ethanol or soybean biodiesel.

Led by David Tilman, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota, the research shows that «mixtures of native perennial grasses and other flowering plants provide more usable energy per acre than corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel and are far better for the environment,» according to a release from the University of Minnesota.

Switchgrass a better biofuel source than corn (1/7/2008) Switchgrass yields more than 540 percent more energy than the energy needed to produce and convert it to ethanol, making the grassy weed a far superior source for biofuels than corn ethanol, reports a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Ethanol is a better choice than oil because it is a renewable resource.