Sentences with phrase «domestic biofuels»

Congressional mandates have failed to produce cellulosic biofuel and expand the domestic biofuels industry as envisioned, and our new energy realities have made the RFS obsolete

The fact is, Congressional mandates have failed to produce cellulosic biofuel and expand the domestic biofuels industry as envisioned, and our new energy realities have made the RFS obsolete.

«I look forward to working with the president - elect and his nominees to continue the success of domestic biofuels,» Grassley — whose corn - producing key primary state is particularly bullish on the RFS — told Scientific American.

It is a bid to demonstrate that the U.S. Navy can power its vehicles with more secure domestic biofuels that also happen to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change.

This is how we can produce massive quantities of domestic biofuel and solve our liquid fuel demand: We could remove the starch from ALL of our feed corn (instead of just part of it) to make more ethanol.

Not exact matches

But the environmental price tag of biofuels now joins the ranks of other, cheaper domestic fuel sources — such as coal - to - liquid fuel — as major sources of globe - warming pollution as well as unintended social consequences.

Whether proponents realize it or not, any plan to switch from gasoline to electricity or biofuels is a strategic decision to switch our dependence from foreign oil to domestic water.

Domestic and international incentives to sequester carbon and reduce deforestation, support for biofuels

Pool of offsets plus supplemental fund of 5 % of permits for domestic and international incentives to sequester carbon and reduce deforestation, support for biofuels

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The 2015 Survey of Non-Starch Ethanol and Renewable Hydrocarbon Biofuels Producers provides an inventory of the domestic advanced biofuels production industry as of the end of calendar year 2015, documenting important... Read more →

We've covered many times the efforts of the US Navy, driven largely by a desire to secure stable and domestic sources of energy, to create a so - called Great Green Fleet and Green Strike Force — that is, ships and planes powered by biofuels.

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

Canada currently maintains a 5 % domestic ethanol mandate on use while the U.S. is working towards a target of 136 billion liters of biofuels blended into transportation fuels by 2022.

[3] The Indonesian government is planning to boost domestic use of biofuel including from palm oil, with extra subsidies and a mandatory target of 15 % biofuel blended into diesel fuel.

Notwithstanding critiques of about biofuels» net - energy value by Pimentel and a handful of other researchers, bioenergy was favorably viewed in energy circles until recently on account of its being domestic, abundant and non-fossil.

Domestic refers to residential and commercial fossil and biofuel burning (e.g. cook stoves, kerosene, heating oil, etc).

On this basis, study author, Doyletech Corporation, concludes that meeting the increased demand for biofuels with domestic production would:

The U.S. is now a global oil and natural gas superpower — not because of biofuels, but through investment in the oil and gas industry and increases in domestic production.

Clearly, the domestic cellulosic biofuel industry has struggled and indeed could be seen as losing ground.

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.

The Air Force is calling for half its domestic aviation needs to be satisfied with biofuels by 2016 (see «Green Shades of Jet Fuel» below).

This latest addition to the regulation of biofuel use requires Member States to translate international law into domestic law by 2017.

He then offered a strategy aimed at, among other things, reducing oil imports by one - third by 2025, partly by increasing domestic production but largely by producing more efficient vehicles and by moving advanced biofuels from the laboratory to commercial production.

Domestic U.S. oil and natural gas companies are pioneers in developing alternatives and expanding America's use of virtually every form of energy — from geothermal to wind, from solar to biofuels, from hydrogen power to the lithium ion battery for next - generation cars.

(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.

Unfortunately, President Obama is following President Carter by seeking approval from the environmental movement by thwarting domestic fossil fuel production and promoting unreliable, uneconomic renewable energy sources of solar, wind, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

Add in the EIA's projection that biofuels will grow to 14 percent, and you've got 92 percent of what America will need in liquid fuels supplied by a combination of domestic sources and our friend and ally to the north.

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai says the government aim is to reduce use of traditional biofuels for domestic cooking and promote alternative energies

Of course, not all of this crop is used for biofuels, but ethanol has driven up the domestic demand for corn (see chart below).