Sentences with phrase «billion gallons»

If they succeed, mandatory sales of corn ethanol could significantly exceed 15 billion gallons annually.

If each plane spent just one extra minute on each round trip flight, that would mean that commercial jets would spend 300,000 hours longer in the air, burn an additional billion gallons of jet fuel, and emit an extra 10,000 million kilograms of CO2 per year.

In the United States, the federal government, through the multiagency Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI), has examined the land and market implications of reaching the nation's biofuel target, which calls for producing 36 billion gallons by 2022.

States like Alabama, Maryland, Michigan, and Wisconsin could each save more than 250 billion gallons of water withdrawals a year by replacing uncompetitive coal generators with renewable energy.

A team of US scientists say the cumulative effect of the longer flight times that they think may have resulted from climate variation would have added millions of dollars to airlines» costs, and perhaps a billion gallons of extra fuel.

Approximately 8,421 billion gallons of water withdrawals and 149 billion gallons of water consumption could be avoided if both retiring and ripe - for - retirement generators were replaced with renewables and efficiency.

In Europe, where the emphasis is on producing biodiesel, mostly from rapeseed, some 2.1 billion gallons were set to be produced in 2009.

These vehicles consume roughly 140 Billion gallons of gasoline, 60 Billion gallons of diesel fuel, and 9 Billion gallons of ethanol every year.

Isn't the gasoline usage yearly about 140 billion gallons?

This would require around 100 billion gallons / year of ethanol, replacing 83 billion gallons of octane equivalent and resulting in a net cumulative reduction of around 13 Gt octane equivalent, which generate 40 GtCO2, by 2100.

To square this circle, Congress mandated that ethanol from cellulose feedstocks contribute at least 16 billion gallons by 2022.

In the USA today, ethanol is mandated to up to 10 % of gasoline motor fuel; 13 billion gallons / year ethanol are replacing 10 billon gallons / year octane equivalent gasoline (out of a total consumption of around 140 billion gallons / year).

Slide no. 19 projects that even in 2040, the quantity of biofuel in the U.S. motor fuel market will be about 10 billion gallons lower than the 36 billion gallons per year required by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by 2022.

The law calls for 16 billion gallons in 2013 rising year by year to 24 billion gallons in a few years.

The plant draws in an estimated 2.5 billion gallons of water per day for cooling purposes and discharges that water back into the Pacific Ocean about 20 degrees hotter.

The 2022 requirement of 36 billion gallons would consume almost the entire corn crop.

That would mean a need of around 1.3 billion gallons of ethanol per year.

The United States could have achieved the same reduction in oil use (~ 11 billion gallons of oil per year) by simply improving (average fleet) vehicle fuel efficiency by just over ONE MILE PER GALLON.»

The Indian Point nuclear plant in Westchester County withdraws more than two billion gallons of water from the Hudson River each day to keep its reactors cool — then dumps the heated water back into the river.

During the period under evaluation by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, America's Soviet - style production quota for ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, increased almost 4 billion gallons, or 104 billion pounds of maize.

Isn't 11 billion gallons about 1 / 13th of 140 billion?

In summary, there is sufficient land zoned for sugar cane for Brazil to produce approximately 4 — 5 times as much ethanol than is produced today (˜6.2 billion gallons in 2008).

In Florida, for example, the Sabal Trail underground pipeline — a project of Florida Power and Light and Next Era Energy — will cost over $ 3 billion and run nearly 500 miles through Georgia and Florida to provide more than 1 billion gallons of natural gas to the state daily.

In a nod to how hard it is to predict the future, the EPA has lowered the cellulosic biofuel mandate from 500 billion gallons to a less ambitious 8.65 million gallons, which is 1.7 % of the original planned requirement.

The standard mandates that oil refiners blend 13.2 billion gallons of corn - based ethanol into gasoline this year.

Washington originally figured the industry could produce 1 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol annually by 2013, so that's where it set the mandate for last year.

This summer, expensive and rare corn has left 26 ethanol plants idle — some for more than a year — removing 1.5 billion gallons of production, according to the industry trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association.

The United States will not be able to meet the mandate to use 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022, reported the U.S. Energy Information Administration in December.

Some analyses conclude that domestic biodiesel output is actually one billion gallons below what the mandate explicitly and in reality requires.

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) established the RFS2 program and the annual renewable fuel volume targets, which steadily increase to an overall level of 36 billion gallons in 2022.

If CAFE drops gasoline demand from 140 billion gallons per year to 100 billion gallons, and the RFS requires 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, the current blend of E10 (gasoline with 10 percent ethanol) will need to be increased to E40 nationwide.

Hydrogeologist David Yoxtheimer of Penn State's Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research gives the withdrawals more context: Of the 9.5 billion gallons of water used daily in Pennsylvania, natural gas development consumes 1.9 million gallons a day (mgd); livestock use 62 mgd; mining, 96 mgd; and industry, 770 mgd.

In 2008, coal ash flooded into the American psyche when a coal ash dam burst at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee — burying the local environment and community beneath 1.1 billion gallons of toxic sludge, a $ 3 billion clean up job.

Yet the same officials contend that if Congress were to overturn EPA's greenhouse gas component of the Tailpipe Rule, Americans would consume 25 % more oil (an additional 19.1 billion gallons) over the lifetime of the same vehicles.

The United States is using 40 million acres of cropland (Iowa plus New Jersey) and 45 % of its corn crop to produce 14 billion gallons of ethanol annually.

The corn crop in the US will help to supply the required 18 billion gallons of ethanol in 2016, which will add to the strain of devoting more environmental resources to produce corn.

By way of background, in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), Congress mandated that importers, blenders, and refiners sell 36 billion gallons of renewable motor fuel by 2022, with 16 billion gallons classified as cellulosic.

In 2009 the world was on track to produce 19 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and nearly 4 billion gallons of biodiesel.

The 14 billion gallons of U.S. grain - based ethanol met roughly 6 percent of U.S. gasoline demand.

By 2000, the figure was 4.5 billion gallons.

In 1980, the world produced scarcely 1 billion gallons of fuel ethanol.

If people were able to reduce their fuel consumption by just 5 % — whether it was by simply not driving, purchasing a more fuel efficient vehicle, or getting more of their current car's gas mileage — we would save 7.05 billion gallons of gas each year.

During the next six years it jumped to nearly 6 billion gallons, increasing sixfold.

Over the course of a year, that adds up to just under 141 billion gallons of gas.

But between then and 2011, production jumped to 23 billion gallons.

In the U.S. alone, idling uses more than 6 billion gallons of fuel each year.

USA production projection of 2.5 to 3.5 billion gallons by 2010.

That means their money is funds sludge impoundments like Brushy Fork which is currently holding 7 billion gallons of coal waste above the Coal River Valley.

Worldwide biofuel is at 51 billion liters (about 13 billion gallons) in 2007.

7.5 billion gallons of biofuels per year by 2012 http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/25/technology/biodieselboom.biz2/