Sentences with phrase «cultivated fuel crops»

Biofuels Growing mushrooms for biodiesel could require far less soil and other resources than commonly cultivated fuel crops.

Not exact matches

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

Conventional cotton growing consumes 500 pounds of pesticide per square mile and requires up to a pound of oil per pound of cultivated cotton to fuel farm machinery and crop dusters.

We further fix nitrogen by cultivating legumes and burning fossil fuels, timber and crops.

After the first crop is harvested, the fuel could be used to cultivate and transport the next crop.

Because so little energy is required to cultivate crops such as switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol production, and because electricity can be co-produced using the residues of such cellulosic fuel production, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for celluslosic ethanol when compared to gasoline are greater than 100 per cent.

(Sec. 126) Amends the CAA to revise the definition of «renewable biomass» for purposes of the renewable fuel standard by expanding the amount of biomass from forested land that could be used to produce fuels under such standard and eliminating the requirement that feedstock crops come from previously cultivated land.

Over the next few months, however, the DEA's delay and expressed intent to review the applications as if the farmers intended to grow an unprecedented amount of Schedule I drugs, versus cultivate a non-drug agricultural crop, fueled frustration in North Dakota's legislature.