Sentences with phrase «ethanol made from corn»

We can end our dependency on oil by powering our SUVs with ethanol made from corn.

The Scientific American reports that roughly 40 percent of today's corn crop is used for ethanol made from corn, which is added to gasoline.

There are no nuclear reactors powered by organic material, either, although combustion engines that use ethanol made from corn or other organic material are becoming more common.

For instance, how is changing all our oil dependency to ethanol made from corn going to solve our crisis.

Until recently, nearly all the ethanol used to make ethyl tert - butyl ether (ETBE) for Japanese consumption has come from Brazil, whose sugarcane - based ethanol boasts lower emissions of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than U.S. ethanol made from corn.

The U.S. Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels, including ethanol made from corn stover.

The ethanol lobby claims there's a 30 percent net gain in BTUs from ethanol made from corn.

(For context, the price of a gallon of processed ethanol made from corn is now $ 2.40 a gallon.)

Ethanol made from corn grain, beets, sugarcane, wheat and other first - generation feedstocks is getting a bad rap these days.

Ethanol made from corn only contains marginally more energy than what is needed to produce it.

The United States alone would require six times its arable land — and 75 percent of the world's cultivated land — to supply its needs with ethanol made from corn, according to calculations by Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba.

«Cellulosic ethanol contains more net energy and emits significantly fewer greenhouse gases than ethanol made from corn.»

Hear the word «biofuel,» and you probably think one of two things: restaurant grease (and cars that smell like french fries), or ethanol made from corn.

Ethanol made from corn is wrong policy, make so many people starvation.

Another $ 16.8 billion went to ethanol made from corn.