Sentences with phrase «ethanol production since»

Increases in ethanol production since 2007 have made little, or no, contribution to U.S. energy supplies, or dependence on foreign crude oil.

In fact, cumulative new ethanol production since 2005 has accounted for 62 % of new domestically - produced liquid fuels, while cumulative new U.S. crude oil production has accounted for 38 %.

Not exact matches

Since then, corn ethanol production has more than doubled to about 36.5 million gallons per day — meaning ethanol already is nearly 10 percent of U.S. fuel supply.

Since transportation and storage of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in ethanol production.

These findings have significance for human health but also for biofuels production, since the same sugars can be fed to yeast to generate ethanol and other liquid fuels.

Ethanol production has boomed in the U.S. since the late 2000s, largely due to heavy government subsidies.

«Since 2000, global wind energy generation has more than tripled; solar cell production has risen six-fold; production of fuel ethanol from crops have more than doubled; and biodiesel production has expanded nearly four-fold.

Non-conventional liquids production has reached ~ 4.5 Mbbl / d since 1960, which includes EOR, oil sands, CTL, GTL, ethanol, biodiesel.

This will require some technological breakthroughs since the production of ethanol from such sources as switch grass require the use of cellulosic enzymes whose economical production has not been perfected yet.

Since 2008, ethanol production has increased by 33 percent.

Ethanol production has expanded and the U.S. has been a net exporter of ethanol sincEthanol production has expanded and the U.S. has been a net exporter of ethanol sincethanol since 2010.

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polarEthanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polarethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

Because of this policy, ethanol production now consumes approximately 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop, and the cost of corn for use in food production has increased by 193 percent since 2005 [the year before the RFS took effect].

Wayne Hoovestol, Chief Executive Officer said: «Algae is potentially a by - product of ethanol that makes the process cleaner and greener through carbon sequestration... Algae production fits into Green Plains» business model since we are already in the business of marketing biofuel and feed products.»

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has increased ethanol production by about 400,000 barrels per day (bbl / d) since 2000.

Ethanol production has been growing at breakneck speed since President Bush announced his goal of decreasing the nation's dependence on foreign oil through his Advanced Energy Initiative last year.

And the International Monetary Fund has documented that since their peak in July 2008, oil prices declined by 69 % as of December 2008, and global food prices declined by 33 % during the same period, while U.S. corn production has remained at 12 billion bushels a month, one - third of which is still used for ethanol production.

This reflects the reality that approximately 40 percent of the corn crop now goes into ethanol production, a dramatic rise since the first ethanol mandates were put in place in 2005.

Since cellulosic ethanol is created by using all of the parts of the plant being used (instead of the 10 %, mainly the edible part, of the plant), in all likelihood, if this process turns out to work as advertised, we could use the discarded parts of corn, or non-edible plants such as switchgrass, so food production would not have to be drastically increased.