Sentences with phrase «biofuels plants cost»

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Steps should include the continuation of loan guarantees and cost - sharing programs for building pilot biofuel plants, support for flex - fuel vehicles that can burn both gasoline and biofuels, and R&D incentives from the departments of energy and agriculture.

Cellulose - loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a simple, effective and relatively inexpensive technique for removing lignin from the plant material used to make biofuels, which may drive down the cost of biofuel production.

Understanding the role of these underlying physical factors — dehydration and phase separation — could enable scientists to engineer improved plants and pretreatment processes and ultimately bring down the costs of biofuel production.

«This joint effort between USDA and DOE will help accelerate research in the critical area of plant feed stocks, which hold one key to making biofuels production both cost effective and sustainable on a national scale,» said Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a statement.

DOE's Bioenergy Research Centers support multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams pursuing the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to make production of cellulosic biofuels, or biofuels from nonfood plant fiber, cost - effective on a national scale.

While there continue to be high hopes that biofuels made from plant products like corncobs and switchgrass can help meet our growing energy needs, one major obstacle has been the cost of enzymes which are used to break down these tough plant parts into simple sugars that can be turned into ethanol.

In 2007 26 % of the US corn production has diverted to create biofuel with a 7 % net increase in carbon dioxide emitted if one includes the energy cost for fertilizer, to harvest the corn, to haul the corn to the biofuel plants, and to triple distil the ethanol.

Economists have recently done field studies to determine just how much the feedstocks — the grasses, wood chips, straw, or corn stover — actually cost to grow, harvest, and get to a biofuels plant.