Sentences with phrase «ethanol from corn»

New generations of biomass energy — ones that do not rely on food crops, unlike the mistaken strategy of making ethanol from corn — are extremely promising.

They're not talking about ethanol from corn, however, which has already proved wasteful and environmentally damaging.

Stop wasting money on things that do no good like ethanol from corn.

The environmental case for ethanol from corn continues to weaken.

Both candidates love biofuels, even ethanol from corn.

As when we recognize ethanol from corn is wrong, we did not soon correct it is our human being wrong thing.

Today it costs $ 40 to $ 50 a barrel to produce ethanol from corn.

He described the production of ethanol from corn as a mature technology, with U.S. ethanol production reaching nine billion gallons, or about 4.2 % of gasoline usage in 2008.

Instead, the U.S. brews ethanol from corn across the Midwest, exacerbating climate change pollution, while felling forests in the Southeast and shipping the resulting wood pellets overseas.

The latest example, Mr. Bloomberg said, was the ongoing politics - driven push to subsidize ethanol from corn.

The goal, however, is $ 1.07 — what NREL and the Energy Department figured was the cost to make a gallon of ethanol from corn kernels at the time NREL made the enzyme pact.

Cellulosic biofuel could reduce our reliance on foreign petroleum without the problems associated with ethanol from corn — if we can figure out how to extract its energy economically

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

Cellulosic ethanol continues to struggle to use inedible crop waste to match ethanol from corn — and fossil fuels

(Such factors have caused considerable scientific disagreement over whether ethanol from corn delivers any useful greenhouse gas reductions, although the researchers find that even corn provides some climate benefits as long as oil production and combustion is included in the comparison.)

It's also the largest maker of ethanol from corn in the U.S.

Obama of course has also promised to fund clean coal research and also supports ethanol from corn, which McCain, to his credit, does not.

David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

Making ethanol from corn reduces atmospheric releases of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide because the CO2 emitted when the ethanol burns is «canceled out» by the carbon dioxide taken in by the next crop of growing plants, which use it in photosynthesis.

By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belt.

Ethanol from corn bears on being criminal.

In 2007 and early 2008, for example, a bumper crop of media articles blamed sharply higher food prices worldwide on the production of biofuels, particularly ethanol from corn, in the United States.

Biodiesel from vegetable oil cuts greenhouse emissions by around 40 - 55 % and ethanol from corn generally cuts them by less than 30 %.»

I'm assuming from your content free diatribe you mean that biofuels, specifically ethanol from corn, raised food prices for the poor.

Biofuels from waste avoid the carbon and energy debts incurred by more common examples such as ethanol from corn or diesel from soy.

The E. coli can be grown in large fermentation tanks, exactly like those used to brew ethanol from corn, and have also been genetically tweaked to tolerate high concentrations of BDO in their water.

Speaking of a bio-based economy, did the push for biofuels like ethanol from corn make farming's problems worse?

For example, natural gas (methane) used to manufacture fertilizer accounts for roughly 40 % of the fossil fuel energy used to produce ethanol from corn.

The Wall Street Journal has reported the results of two independent studies that suggest the widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land - use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. The study challenges the rush to biofuels as a response to global -LSB-...]

Ethanol from corn or sugarcane and biodiesel from canola, soy or palm oil have become major players in renewable energy.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

«Ethanol from corn is a particularly intriguing option for future, possibly more competitive, energy markets.

I doubt that any self - respecting environmentalist things that ethanol from corn is good for global warming, good for the environment or good for the world food supply.

According to their calculations, ethanol contains about 76,000 BTUs per gallon, but producing that ethanol from corn takes about 98,000 BTUs.

Ethanol from corn is not the solution to greenhouse gas emissions, high oil prices, or dependence on foreign oil.

Ethanol from corn is quite expensive and not very ecological, so we probably do not want it to increase to the 1 % level.

It's now well - established that large - scale U.S. production of biofuels such as ethanol from corn has accomplished little or nothing (or even negative) in its stated goals of reducing oil dependence and cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, and has functioned instead as a full - employment program for agribusiness (and a political production racket for Iowa and other corn - growing states).

Because land - use decisions are local, Geyer explains, he and his colleagues examined five prominent «sun - to - wheels» energy conversion pathways — ethanol from corn or switchgrass for internal combustion vehicles, electricity from corn or switchgrass for BEVs, and PV electricity for BEVs — for every county in the contiguous United States.