Sentences with phrase «ethanol plants where»

There are ethanol plants where the source of funding was the local community: A few thousand families all put in, say, $ 10,000 each.

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The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur into the expanses of the American Middle West, fly - over country, where ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.

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

Biofuel researchers are working to change that, envisioning a future where cellulosic ethanol, an alcohol derived from plant sugars, is as common and affordable at the gas station as gasoline.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

One example isPanda Ethanol, which is building the largest biomass plant in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will use the waste of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production of approximately 115 million gallons ofethanol per year.

The methane is collected and sent via pipeline to an ethanol plant, where it replaces fossil fuels as a source of process heat.

Though it's only occasionally on the public biofuel radar in the United States, what with corn ethanol and Brazilian sugar cane hogging the headlines, in the subtropical and tropical regions where the plant thrives, Jatropha has received much more attention.