Sentences with phrase «crops as feedstocks»

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

The total addressable market for electricity generation technologies using perennial crops as feedstock is based on estimated global electricity generation in terawatt - hours from 2020 - 2050.

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«One of the reasons for interest in these second - generation cellulosic feedstocks is that if they can be grown on low - quality soil, they wouldn't compete for land with food crops, such as corn.

Biomass energy is a true solution only if it uses appropriate feedstock, such as waste from mills and agriculture or sustainably grown perennial crops.

Advanced biofuels can be derived from lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural waste (e.g., corn stover, wheat straw, rice hulls), agricultural processing byproducts (e.g., corn fiber or sugar cane bagasse), forestry and wood processing waste, the paper portion of municipal solid waste, or dedicated energy crops such as switchgrass.

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

Project Drawdown defines perennial biomass as: the use of perennial grasses and coppiced woody plants for bioenergy feedstock, instead of annual crops like corn.

As is the case with biofuels, there is also the significant risk that inappropriately applied incentives to encourage biochar might increase the cost and reduce the availability of food crops, if growing biomass feedstocks becomes more profitable than growing food.»

Economic Benefits The development of an advanced biofuel industry will help rebuild the local and regional economies devastated as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita by providing: (1) increased value to the feedstock crops which will benefit local farmers and provide more revenue to the local community; (2) increased investments in plants and equipment which will stimulate the local economy by providing construction jobs initially and the chance for full - time employment after the plant is completed; (3) secondary employment as associated industries develop due to plant co-products becoming available at a competitive price; and (4) increased local and state revenues collected from plant operations will stimulate local and state tax revenues and provide funds for improvements to the community and to the region.

So, more attention and resources are going into the producing of ethanol and other biofuel types from second - generation feedstocks, sometimes known as non-food crops.

Rather, it will be a first - generation biofuel whose feedstock is generally understood to compete with either land and water use for food crops or carbon sinks such as rainforests.»

The next generation of bioenergy technology aims to replace current feedstocks such as corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rapeseed, soy, and oil palm with dedicated cellulosic crops (Kszos et al. 2000; Heaton et al. 2008b), such as woody tree species and the grasses switchgrass (Panacum vergatum) and miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus)(Lewandowski et al. 2000).

Biofuels offer one possibility for reducing the carbon footprint of these transport systems, but many plants grown as biofuel feedstocks compete with food crops and / or wild lands.