Sentences with phrase «bioenergy fuels»

Other bioenergy fuels such as wood chips, cellulosic ethanol, methanol, sugar cane and biodiesel have their own distinct lifecycle fuel inputs and carbon emissions, raising the thorny issue of assessing and taxing their lifecycle carbon emissions.

Bioenergy fuel is supposed to be harvested from residue such as forest waste but, under current legislation, European bioenergy plants...

Not exact matches

The bioenergy crop sorghum holds great promise as a raw material for making environmentally friendly fuels and chemicals that offer alternatives to petroleum - based products.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

«Wood formation model to fuel progress in bioenergy, paper, new applications: Lignin research may represent the most comprehensive model of a biological pathway in a single plant species.»

«Being able to put everything together at one point, walk away, come back, and then get your fuel, is a necessary step in moving forward with a biofuel economy,» said study principal investigator Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, vice president of the Fuels Synthesis Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a DOE Bioenergy Research Center at Berkeley Lab.

«Most scenarios consistent with 2 °C used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report largely depend on carbon capture and storage (CCS), both from fossil - fuel combustion and, particularly, bioenergy,» said Andrew.

The sustainable transportation portfolio, which funds work on vehicles, bioenergy, and fuel cell technologies, would see its budget fall 14 %, to $ 514 million.

Global Bioenergies, IBN - One and Lantmännen Aspen, world market leader in alkylate gasoline for two - and four - stroke small engines, have entered into a partnership on renewable isooctane (earlier post) for specialty fuel applications.

The US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) have released a request for information (RFI)(DE-FOA-0001460) titled «Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines» (Optima).

Global Bioenergies will use an EN228 - compliant gasoline blend containing more than 34 % of renewable, isobutene - derived, compounds to fuel a car on a circuit.

Unlike other models, GCAM includes carbon stored in forests, causing forest acreage to increase even as energy systems change to include fuels generated from bioenergy crops and crop waste.

Created in 2007, the Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs) work together to address the most significant challenges standing in the way of affordable, sustainable and scalable advanced liquid transportation fuels.

Through our Vehicle, Bioenergy, and Fuel Cell Technologies Offices, EERE advances the development of next - generation technologies to improve plug - in electric and other alternative - fuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportation fuFuel Cell Technologies Offices, EERE advances the development of next - generation technologies to improve plug - in electric and other alternative - fuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportation fufuel vehicles, advanced combustion engine and vehicle efficiency, and produce low - carbon domestic transportation fuels.

The Bioenergy Technologies Office works with scientists, national labs, and industry to tackle the main technical challenges that must be overcome before low - carbon biofuels become economically competitive enough to displace fossil fuels.

The Department of Energy's pages on bioenergy and wind energy as well as transportation have both reduced their mentions of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing fossil fuel use in favor of language more geared toward jobs and energy independence.

This Bioenergy Technologies Office helps solve this equation by supporting research on which bioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmentBioenergy Technologies Office helps solve this equation by supporting research on which bioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmentbioenergy crops to grow and how to grow them; technologies designed to convert biomass to fuels and other products; and analysis methods for determining how well the production processes achieve their economic and environmental goals.

Biochar and bioenergy co-production can help combat global climate change by displacing fossil fuel use and by sequestering carbon in stable soil carbon pools.

A Legal Analysis of the Effects of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) and Clean Air Act on the Commercialization of Biobutanol as a Transportation Fuel in the United States, Timothy A. Slating & Jay P. Kesan, Global Change Biology - Bioenergy, 4 (1), doi: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01146.x, January 9, 2012.

Ignoring terrestrial carbon led to a nearly complete loss of unmanaged forests by 2100, largely because they were replaced by massive expansions of bioenergy crops that were planted to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

The work continues through the DOE - funded Center for Bioenergy Innovation, created last year to advance the production of fuels and other products directly from nonfood biomass.

With Washington's large utilities required to generate 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020 and federal mandates requiring 30 percent of gasoline to come from alternative fuels, demand for bioenergy solutions will continue to climb.

Eliminate (100 %) all unsustainable tax incentives: Tax exemptions, subsidies, regulatory frameworks and other incentives are redirected towards sustainable, knowledge and employment - intensive sectors and local sustainable value chains and away from unsustainable activities, including industrial fisheries, forestry and agriculture, risky and otherwise unsustainable forms of energy production like fossil fuels, nuclear energy, unconventional energy production / franking and industrial bioenergy, extractive industries and chemical industry

Al Darzins, a contributor to the report and group manager with the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, stressed in an interview that algae is far less developed, technologically, than biodiesel fuel or corn ethanol.

In the energy sector: CO2 capture from non-fossil fuel sources, including bioenergy and ambient air; and storage via utilization in building materials

Biomass (or bioenergy) carbon offset projects vary depending on whether they are methane avoidance projects, reducing deforestation, or avoiding fossil fuel use; some projects may deliver more than one of these.

Others have further elaborated on the carbon implications of various forms of bioenergy, from corn ethanol to crop residue cellulosic fuels to wood bioenergy.

While planting trees for bioenergy would no doubt lead to an uptick in ozone pollution, it should be noted that burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — is generally seen as a larger and graver contributor to air pollution than tree plantations.

But most calculations claiming that bioenergy reduces greenhouse gas emissions relative to burning fossil fuels do not include the carbon dioxide released when biomass is burned.

A second, additive step would be to tax the carbon «content» of bioenergy products in the same way their fossil fuel counterparts would be taxed.

We start with a minimal approach that would tax all fossil fuel inputs of bioenergy including those used to manufacture fertilizer for corn grown for ethanol.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

In some cases, bioenergy appears to offer net climate benefits compared to fossil fuels because of carbon sequestration by plants grown for biofuel and biomass.

The push for bioenergy extends beyond transportation fuels to the harvest of trees and other sources of biomass for electricity and heat generation.

A «carbon neutral» bioenergy source would be one that sequestered as much carbon in its growth cycle as it released later when burned as fuel, with the sequestering occurring concurrently with the burning, or nearly so, rather than decades hence, when the negative emissions count for less in stabilizing atmospheric CO2 levels.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

Unlike fossil fuels, however, the plant sources of bioenergy sequester carbon, through photosynthesis.

The study finds that electricity from fossil fuels, hydro and bioenergy has «significantly higher» embodied energy, compared to nuclear, wind and solar power.

• National Low Carbon Fuel Standard and Renewable Energy Standard promoting biofuel / bioenergy must be resisted

Alternative Fuel Vehicles Bioenergy Customer - owned Solar Energy Efficiency Energy Storage Geothermal Hydropower / Marine Smart Grid Utility - scale Solar Wind

The report forecasts that all types of clean energy, including bioenergy - for - power and hydropower, will be in the cost range of fossil fuels within the next two years.

Bioenergy is heat, electricity, or transport fuel produced from plant or animal materials.

Bioenergy can be produced from wood materials by various processes, ranging from burning sticks and branches for cooking and heating to gasification of wood chips to produce transport fuel.

In sum, although bioenergy from wood can lower long - run CO2 concentrations compared to fossil fuels, its first impact is an increase in CO2, worsening global warming over the critical period through 2100 even if the wood offsets coal, the most carbon - intensive fossil fuel.

Biofuel is bioenergy converted into a liquid fuel such as ethanol or biodiesel, but biomass can also be converted into gaseous fuels via biological or chemical processes such as digestion and gasification.

Moreover, in a world where fossil fuel resources are shrinking every year, and where the extraction of «residual» sources such as deepwater oil, tar sands and shale gas come with great environmental and safety risks, bioenergy production can also contribute to national energy security.

Dr Tristan Smith, reader in energy and shipping, from the University College London Energy Institute, said that the shipping industry would require rapid technological changes to produce zero - emission ships, moving from fossil fuels to a combination of electricity (batteries), renewable fuels derived from hydrogen, and potentially bioenergy.

Bioenergy refers to sources of energy (electricity and solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels) derived from biomass: plant - or animal - based materials such as crops, crop residues, trees, animal fats, by - products, and wastes.

CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors were making huge claims about the promise of algae - based biofuels; the U.S. Department of Energy was also making big bets through its bioenergy technologies office; industry advocates claimed that commercial algae fuels were within near - term reach.

Environmental concerns mount as palm oil production grows (5/15/2007) The booming market for palm oil is driving record production but fueling rising concerns over the environmental impact of the supposedly «green» bioenergy source.