Sentences with phrase «ethanol from corn kernels»

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.

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This problem can become even bigger for biofuels like corn ethanol that emit greenhouse gases at every step, from laughing gas emanating from corn fields after fertilization to the CO2 from the fermentation of kernels into ethanol.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

Also, a compnay in St. Joseph, MO has a process where they extract the meal and the ethanol from every kernel of corn — again proving there is enough corn for BOTH food and fuel.