Sentences with phrase «by cellulosic»

Ending the Energy Stalemate: historic report by bipartisan experts from industry, government, labor, academia, and environmental and consumer groups breaks ground in endorsing plug - in hybrids: grid of options points to PHEVs fueled by cellulosic ethanol or bio-diesel as an optimal solution: see extraordinarily clear Summary Matrix outlining options (view or download 78KB PDF from CalCars) or read pages 70 - 78 in entire report (2.3 MB PDF from NCEP).

Corvette Racing will be powered by cellulosic E85R ethanol fuel at Sebring for the first time.

Not exact matches

The conclusions deal a blow to what are known as cellulosic biofuels, which have received more than a billion dollars in federal support but have struggled to meet volume targets mandated by law.

Tom Foust believes that if department scientists get all of their R&D dollars, cellulosic ethanol will be commercially competitive by 2012.

The United States expanded its federal biofuels mandate in a 2007 law to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, with up to 15 billion gallons coming from corn ethanol and the balance from so - called advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol.

«API supports the use of advanced biofuels, including cellulosic biofuels, once they are commercially viable and in demand by consumers.

In Welsh's view, it's no coincidence that opposition to the U.S. renewable fuels policy has ramped up just as the three big cellulosic facilities — Project Liberty in Emmetsburg, Dupont's Nevada, Iowa plant and the Hugoton, Kan. facility built by Spanish multinational Abengoa — are to begin producing the fuel.

This year's proposed cellulosic target — based entirely on the projected output of the three new cellulosic plants — is 17 million gallons, far short of the 1 billion gallons per year that Congress envisioned the industry would be producing by now when it passed the Energy Independence and Security Act in in 2007.

But 1 billion gallons of cellulosic by 2020 is an achievable goal, he said, and if the United States is to meet its promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions, it must maintain a commitment to biofuels.

Moving forward, Smith's group seeks to further validate molecular dynamics simulations as a predictive tool by modeling a genetically modified form of switchgrass, another plant targeted for cellulosic ethanol.

By analyzing samples taken directly from a cow's cellulose - digesting foregut, the authors of a new study elucidated a new catalogue of nearly 30,000 enzymes that could lead to more efficient production of cellulosic biofuel

«We expect the outcome of this study to support scientifically sound national policy decisions on bioenergy crops development especially with regards to cellulosic grasses,» wrote Atul Jain, professor of atmospheric sciences at U of I, regarding a paper published by the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Those benefits, however, are complicated by the need for vast amounts of land to produce cellulosic biofuels on a large scale.

But the research suggests that even if researchers maximized the capacity to grow biofuels on all marginal lands, «the amount of cellulosic ethanol it could produce is only enough to provide 1.5 percent of U.S. transportation fuel by 2020.»

Such a glut of cellulosic biofuel, if realized, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions — compared with oil that otherwise would have been burned — by 44 teragrams (44 billion kilograms) per year.

In contrast, the spray - on cellulosic foam to be developed by the WoTIM project will involve no health hazards, either during or after its installation.

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

Cellulose is difficult to break down and ferment, but several facilities in the United States are on the verge of making commercial cellulosic ethanol — for example, by using specialist enzymes to break down the long - chain cellulose molecules — and Brazil doesn't want to be left behind.

Gasoline - like fuels can be made from cellulosic materials such as farm and forestry waste using a new process invented by chemists at the University of California, Davis.

Mascoma has developed yeast that can be dropped into all cellulosic ethanol fermentation processes to increase yields by fermenting the full array of sugars present in cellulosic fermentations, and by secreting enzymes (cellulases and hemicellulases) that can improve hydrolysis yields.

By spurring the development of cellulosic biorefineries that will produce the fuels and chemicals we need and use, we are driving the economy and addressing a critical societal need.»

A pollinium is a waxy mass of pollen grains held together by the glue - like alkaloid viscin, containing both cellulosic strands and mucopolysaccharides.

EPA mandates cellulosic ethanol, which has never been produced, except a few gallons by a tax payer funded new venture.

The Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC), the leader in bringing «green» fuels to motorsports, contracted KL Process Design Group to provide the cellulosic E85 racing ethanol used by Corvette Racing.

«Today's race was the final appearance by Corvette Racing in the GT1 category at Sebring, and we ran an absolutely perfect race with cellulosic E85 ethanol fuel,» said Steve Wesoloski, GM Racing Road Racing Group manager.

The cellulosic ethanol used by Corvette Racing is made from waste wood — dead trees, undergrowth, broken branches, and bark — collected in South Dakota's Black Hills National Forest to reduce the risk of wildfire.

Among renewables, let's not get dazzled by claims that have not passed the test of scaled up and operational feasibility, which includes cellulosic ethanol, algae, hydrogen, and others.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

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.

Here in Michigan, you're actually a step ahead of the game with your first - ever commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, which will lead the way by turning wood into clean - burning fuel.

Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.

NRC Report to Congress: Cellulosic Biofuel Mandates Unlikely to Be Met A congressionally requested study by the National Research Council — an arm of the National Academy of Sciences — concluded that next - generation biofuels are costly, and their impacts questionable.

Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90 % or more.

However, regular readers are aware that for years I have been deeply skeptical that cellulosic ethanol as envisioned by — and ultimately mandated by — the US government will be an economic and scalable fuel option.

Surely, EPA has been warned about this by now, and I am sure that Alcohol production plants right now are unable to supply enough Cellulosic Alcohol to supply the entire U.S. needs if it these laws are mandated?

Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:

Tennessee has the potential to produce billions of gallons of cellulosic ethanol by using 4.5 million acres of land identified by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as ideal for energy crop cultivation.

For cellulosic ethanol production just to match this output, the grasses or trees must achieve almost double the national cellulosic yields estimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and two to four times the perennial grass yields farmers actually achieve today in the United States.

An analysis by the American Solar Energy Society indicates that burning cellulosic crops to directly generate electricity is much more efficient than converting them to ethanol.

The company believes it will reduce, by $ 50 to $ 100 million, the capital expense for cellulosic ethanol at scale, and dramatically lower the operating costs.

For example, we are working with the Renewable Energy Group, Inc. to study the production of biodiesel by fermenting renewable cellulosic sugars from sources such as agricultural waste.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, cellulosic biomass has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 86 percent compared to petroleum - based fuels, if it can be produced on a large - scale basis.

The renewable fuel standard passed by Congress calls for 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2010, but the actual production capacity from experimental plants is only about 3 to 4 million gallons, he said.

In the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, Congress said that of the 36 billion gallons of biofuel it wants produced by 2022, 15 billion gallons must come from corn - based ethanol and at least 16 billion gallons from cellulosic biofuels.

The Q Microbe ™ is used to make cellulosic ethanol from plant waste and could transform the energy industry by making ethanol more quickly and cost effectively than conventional technologies.

Under the Agreement, CMT will pursue a least - cost strategy for feedstock supply made possible by the project site's proximity to feedstock sources and the flexibility of BlueFire's process to use a wide spectrum of cellulosic waste materials in pure or mixed forms.

The courts even ordered the EPA to adjust its overly optimistic projections by directing the agency to «aim at accuracy» when projecting cellulosic biofuel availability.

By 2022, it was expected that 16 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuel would be produced, but a couple of other things happened instead.

Second, a viable domestic cellulosic biofuels industry has not taken hold, with only a tiny fraction of the fuel mandated by the RFS actually being produced.