Sentences with phrase «biofuels over corn»
By favoring costly, non-existent cellulosic biofuels over corn - based ethanol, Clinton's fuel mandate would resemble California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
http://americanenergyalliance.org/ Not exact matches
To see if nonfood plants could be a source of a biofuel the way corn is, researchers followed six alternative crops and farming systems in so - called marginal lands over 20 years, including poplar trees and alfalfa.
Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin — Madison researchers show in a study today (April 2, 2015) that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four - year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands.
It seems kind of strange, since most biofuels are made from corn, and corn is down to a little over $ 0.06 pound, today.
Over the next seven years, the RFS calls for corn - based ethanol to cede market share to other biofuels.
In fact, since the RFS expanded renewable fuel volumes in 2007, over 1/3 of corn production and nearly 1/4 of the oil produced from soybeans have been diverted to biofuels.1 As the EPA points out, «because many biofuel feedstocks require land, water, and other resources, research suggests that biofuel production may give rise to several undesirable effects.»
The past decade has seen the supply of corn greatly exceed the demand — in the US, at least, there is certainly room for limited amounts of corn crop land to be transfered over for cellulose biofuel production, especially high density crops.
Despite what I thought were persuasive articles over the years (here, here and here, for example), corn ethanol and other biofuel mandates remain embedded in U.S. law.
Sugar cane and corn are what come to mind at first when we think about biofuels, but over the past years the use of animal fats to produce these has extended.
Photo credit: Lynn L. Walters / The New York Times Proponents of biofuels, which are often made from plants such as corn or sugar cane, often point to their many advantages over fossil fuels like gasoline.
Corn - based ethanol does not appear to have any particular advantage over other biofuels, and it is questionable whether it can be significantly expanded without adverse consequences.