Sentences with phrase «ethanol did»

So even if ethanol didn't increase food prices and could be produced for free.

Time will tell, but cellulosic ethanol did not just come onto the scene.

A few drops of ethanol does help though.

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.

Ethanol doesn't have the energy density for jet flight and bio-diesel has a high gel point, which is bad news for planes that spend a good part of their time in the chilly 30,000 foot zone.

Corn grain ethanol is not a solution due to low net energy gain, GHG emissions, environmental degradation (e.g., water pollution and soil loss), and food supply issues) and cellulosic ethanol doesn't look favorable due to energy density issues and GHG emissions.

Corn Ethanol doesn't make sense.

If I produced corn ethanol, and the price of oil went up, I'd charge a lot more for my ethanol to maximize profitability while my competitor's prices were high, which, in a nutshell is why ethanol does little to protect consumers from oil price spikes.

Crucially, corn ethanol does not qualify as «advanced.»

Plus ethanol does little to nothing to fight climate change.

Just growing corn and preserving it in a salt mine forever whilst making gasoline from coal or natural gas will even capture far more carbon than using it for ethanol does.

(6) Corn ethanol does squat for U.S. energy security.

There's just one problem: Despite Washington's mandates — which fall on refiners and producers of motor fuels like ExxonMobil — cellulosic ethanol doesn't actually exist in any meaningful volumes.

Corn ethanol does not need the mandate to survive in the market, and doing away with only the implied - corn ethanol part of the program would make the mandate worse by focusing it on expensive «advanced» biofuels.

We all know that ethanol does not have a good EROEI.

Only diesel engines can run on it so it can't replace gasoline engines (although a gasoline blend might work), but it doesn't have the carbon / oxygen ratio that ethanol does.

Corn - based ethanol does not appear to have any particular advantage over other biofuels, and it is questionable whether it can be significantly expanded without adverse consequences.

But because the carbon in biofuels is pulled directly from the atmosphere via photosynthesis, it would seem that burning ethanol does not, in and of itself, represent a net source of new CO2 to the atmosphere.

Corn ethanol doesn't help, but it also isn't big enough to hurt.

Not exact matches

Because labeling laws on homeopathy are so different from regulations on real medicine with proven ingredients, the only actual drug in a bottle of homeopathic medicine — ethanol, the same active ingredient in vodka — doesn't have to be listed as a drug.

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

But fuels high in ethanol are causing problems — marine engines don't like them very much since they attract water and corrode tanks and battery jumps.

Clayton explains that small - to - medium size farmers «want the EPA off their backs, regulatory-wise» and at the same time don't want to see changes in terms of ethanol.

Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

A gasoline provider could blend ethanol into their fuel to make it less carbon - intensive, for instance — something Canadian fuel providers already do.

???, Ethanol issue does not invalidate the whole idea, right?

It usually takes corn, grains or yeast to create ethanol, don't worry, you won't create any dangerous ethanol from this fermenting Kvass recipe.

The explanation for the hefty price of free - range eggs has something to do with the dynamics of increased corn production for ethanol and the resulting decrease in production of other less expensive feed.

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

While the ideal postpartum abstention from alcohol, since ethanol can move rapidly into the breast milk, lactation experts agree that moderate alcohol consumption by a mother does not pose major threats to an infant.

NAO research revealed a fundamental lack of understanding about alcohol measurements - many people did understand how much is meant by a «unit» of alcohol (10 millilitres of ethanol).

So he decided to do his thesis research on the phenomenon of «stuck» fermentation, during which yeast stops converting sugar to ethanol and carbon dioxide, leaving an unwanted sweetness in the wine.

«It's really easy to make by «drying» ethanol with sulfuric acid,» notes Gee, cautioning that making it is best left to dragons and scientists — don't try this at home.

In the long run, consumers did not appear to have been greatly punished at the pump for using ethanol.

Furthermore, these vehicles incorporate rudimentary conversions of gasoline engines and do not fully exploit ethanol's high octane.

But that trick doesn't work on ambrosia fungus, which fungus - eating beetles raise in «gardens» that have a ready supply of ethanol.

She is an honors graduate of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where she did research on tobacco plants and ethanol - producing bacteria.

Adding new infrastructure at the terminals did not prove daunting; railroads delivered tank cars full of ethanol on time.

(Worse, use of ethanol instead of gasoline does little to reduce net carbon emissions once the energy - intensive full cycle of ethanol production — including the energy - intensive fertilizer and transport needs — is taken into account.)

Both Brazilian sugarcane farmers who turn excess to ethanol and Chinese city dwellers who enjoy hot tea thanks to solar water heaters don't realize it but they are at the forefront of what an international panel of scientists hopes the future will look like.

Turning to ethanol or biodiesel doesn't help much, given that those fuels from crops mean less food: hardly in keeping with the Thanksgiving tradition.

There is certainly a case for re-doubling the scientific efforts to produce bio-fuels on lands which do not compete with food crops, for example from cellulosic ethanol, but this technology is still not ready for the market.

And unlike the corn used to produce ethanol in the United States, algae do not compete with food for farmland, one of the biggest problems with current biofuels.

The yeast didn't make much ethanol or other flavor compounds.

For cellulosic to make its way onto the market, federal policy will need to do more to encourage distribution of higher blends of ethanol, the ethanol industry says.

«We can do this while simultaneously producing from the biomass lignin - free cellulose, which is the basis of ethanol and other liquid fuels.

Well, if you don't do things systematically, you end up doing corn ethanol in Iowa and thinking you solved the problem, when all you have done is really drive up food prices and encourage more people to plant palm oil, basically, in the Amazon.

The cellulosic ethanol process we developed was unique because it did not require multiple processing steps and the use of expensive laboratory - modified enzymes.

The cellulosic ethanol process we developed was unique because it did not require multiple processing steps and the use of expensive laboratory - modified enzymes, the ethanol bioprocessing system uses significantly less water and energy in ethanol production resulting in larger yields per ton of biomass.