Sentences with phrase «corn into ethanol»

America's corn farmers convinced the government that turning corn into ethanol and creating a fuel called E85 was our path to energy independence.

Then they wait for the hungry bacteria to turn sugars in the corn into ethanol, a type of alcohol.

Corn - based ethanol doesn't meet that test and won't benefit from the new standard, CARB says, because diverting corn into ethanol production increases deforestation and the clearing of grasslands.

That's because fermenting corn into ethanol delivers less liquid fuel energy for internal combustion engines than does burning the kernels to generate power for electric motors.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

Not exact matches

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

Indeed, The New York Times reported in March that Mr. Icahn was pressing for a change in a requirement that refiners be held responsible for ensuring that corn - based ethanol is mixed into gasoline.»

The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur into the expanses of the American Middle West, fly - over country, where ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.

Corn is increasingly being used to convert into ethanol in the U.S. and in high demand in China where it it used to feed into the meat industry, and it has yet to be seen how this year's significant loss in harvest will impact grain use across the globe.

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

Does it help that the corn is much more likely to be destined to be made into ethanol than high fructose corn syrup?

New machinery developed by Biorefining Inc. in Minnesota precisely breaks kernels into their constituent elements, which may convert more of the starch into ethanol at a lower cost, while also freeing up more of the valuable coproducts like corn oil.

Finally, the ethanol — 2.7 gallons from a bushel of corn — is cooled into a liquid and denatured with gasoline.

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

Currently more than 40 per cent of the US corn crop goes into producing ethanol, which is mostly mixed with gasoline to fuel conventional cars.

Blending ethanol brewed from corn into gasoline stocks is not bringing down fuel prices, an M.I.T. study finds

This problem can become even bigger for biofuels like corn ethanol that emit greenhouse gases at every step, from laughing gas emanating from corn fields after fertilization to the CO2 from the fermentation of kernels into ethanol.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

The corn and ethanol industries already get federal help, before carbon capture money from the Department of Energy comes into play, he said.

When the purse strings do open, they tend to support projects with well - defined constituencies: farmers whose corn can be distilled into ethanol to mix with gasoline, for instance.

The CO2 will come from a plant that processes corn into multiple products, including corn syrup, food chemicals and ethanol.

The rest can still be fed into the corn supply chain to make ethanol or grits or any of the other products corn is already used for.

A key issue is the conversion of existing corn ethanol and sugarcane ethanol facilities into integrated cellulose / starch / sugar production facilities.

In the last few years, some refineries began converting the inedible parts of corn plants into ethanol, Chundawat said.

Using corn to produce ethanol has driven up food prices in recent years, and converting forests and other areas into farmland to grow more corn for biofuels may well negate ethanol's improved greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

With Tom Roche Junior taking the helm after his father passed away in 1999, NTR had ambitiously transformed itself into a developer & operator in renewable energy (solar, wind & corn - based ethanol) and sustainable waste management — in Ireland, the UK & across the US.

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The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

I think this attempted answer also merges into another failed tributary in addressing our oil addiction: growing corn for Ethanol?

Your colleague Paul Krugman has an excellent piece today about the fallout from our nation's rush into corn - based ethanol.

The RFS, which requires increasingly large amounts of biofuels — mostly corn - based ethanol — to be blended into gasoline each year, will come to the forefront again when EPA finalizes 2014 biofuels levels by June...

For example: How much grassland and prairies are plowed herbicided insecticided fertilized and otherwise molested into non existence to grow corn for biofuels, when grass makes better ethanol than corn anyway.

The RFS requires refiners to blend enormous amounts of biofuel, mostly corn - based ethanol, into gasoline.

• Since 2007, the RFS, which requires fuel retailers to blend corn ethanol into the gasoline they sell, has saddled American motorists with more than $ 10 billion per year in extra fuel costs above what they would have paid if they had purchased gasoline alone.

The researchers examined three ways of using sunlight to power cars: a) the traditional method of converting corn or other plants to ethanol; b) converting energy crops into electricity for BEVs rather than producing ethanol; and C) using PVs to convert sunlight directly into electricity for BEVs.

Work is now under way to develop efficient technologies to convert cellulosic materials such as switchgrass, woodchips, wheat straw, and corn stalks into ethanol.

This extra water use stems from the irrigation of crops like corn that are turned into ethanol, or in the production of the electricity for recharging hybrids.

Water use for Alberta oil extraction is a tiny fraction of what's needed to grow corn and convert it into ethanol that gets a third less mileage per gallon than gasoline.

Almost any organic matter — from the leftover corn stalks after harvest to garbage to grass to sawdust — has cellulose that can be fermented into ethanol.

Congress has written this idea into the law with the same vigor that it embraced corn ethanol.

Many people are familiar with the biofuel ethanol, which is produced from corn and is blended with the gasoline we pump into our tanks.

A new study shows that burning crops such as corn and switchgrass to create electricity to power electric vehicles would actually yield more transportation miles than turning those crops into ethanol.

The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban ethanol fuel content over ten percent.

Wasting corn by turning it into ethanol is economically foolish.

As gasoline prices in the United States quickly climbed to $ 3 a gallon, the conversion of a $ 2 bushel of corn, which can be distilled into 2.8 gallons of ethanol, became highly profitable.

Corn ethanol — For the first time ever, more of the corn crop may go into gas tanks than into the stomachs of cattle and poultry destined for kitchen tabCorn ethanol — For the first time ever, more of the corn crop may go into gas tanks than into the stomachs of cattle and poultry destined for kitchen tabcorn crop may go into gas tanks than into the stomachs of cattle and poultry destined for kitchen tables.

«The biofuels researcher Timothy Searchinger has calculated that once the massive release of greenhouse gases cause by converting grassland and rainforest into cropland is taken into account, introduction of biofuels produces increases in greenhouse emissions, the size of the rise being as much as a doubling for corn ethanol production,» Montford tells us.

Really, Rufus, those are the talking points the ethanol lobby has been using lately to deflect attention away from the amount of corn going into ethanol production.

«What makes matters worse is that the EPA just mandated that more corn ethanol must go into American gas tanks.»