Sentences with phrase «case of ethanol»

This engine is good for 139 hp (140 hp in case of ethanol) and 175 Nm of torque (177 Nm for ethanol) on the Civic, and comes paired to a 6 - speed manual transmission.

Second, they're renewable — in the case of ethanol, you just grow more corn.

Not exact matches

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

In the 30 - year case, nearly all types of corn ethanol plants flunked the test.

He estimated in some cases that indirect emissions could lead to a doubling of emissions associated with corn ethanol.

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

However, if the circuits were strongly used, in this case via consumption of ethanol, alterations to neurons were noticeable and the dopamine response to alcohol was blunted.

In one case, turning on and off a blue light caused the special yeast to alternate between producing ethanol, a product of normal fermentation, and isobutanol, a chemical that normally would kill yeast at sufficiently high concentration.

Setting aside the fact that in many cases clean energy competes on its own merits — for instance in the case of well ‐ situated wind farms and Brazilian sugarcane ethanol — this analysis shows that the global direct subsidy for fossil fuels is around ten times the subsidy for renewables.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

Perhaps this view will become the new received wisdom — it's quoted in today's NYTimes column by economist Paul Krugman, «Grains Gone Wild,» who cites «the rise of demon ethanol and other biofuels,» and points out, «Oh, and in case you're wondering: all the remaining presidential candidates are terrible on this issue.»

In the case of sugarcane ethanol, a lot of energy inputs are required, especially for purifying the ethanol, but those inputs are being satisfied by burning the sugarcane ethanol residues to produce process heat.

In this case, they point to the role of speculators and ethanol in world food prices.

In the case of maize ethanol it leads to a higher abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for the first 15 years of its production, compared to gasoline.

In a case study they used their Biofuels Time Integrated Model of Emissions (BTIME) to compare the production of maize ethanol with that of ordinary gasoline, over a 100 - year period.

Also, having an operational landfill gas collection system and flare typically facilitates negotiations with potential end - users of the gas, and in this case helped the city secure a contract with an existing ethanol plant.

Such as the allowing of the turning over of conservation areas to, in this case, corn growing for ethanol production.

It was in that period that many of today's corn - to - ethanol projects were designed and funded as prototypes, after which, scale - ups and expansions have now spilled over, in some case with their pollutants having measurable effect, resulting in significant penalties being levied.