Sentences with phrase «ethanol program»

The thing is that at some level, the success of Brazil's ethanol program depends on the productivity of its sugar plantations and on the availability of cheap (almost slave) labor.

In a larger context, I am impressed with the increased press coverage the US corn ethanol program is receiving in mainstream media and non-energy industry publications.

As a matter of policy, the Brazilian government has supported the development of biofuels since launching a National Ethanol Program called Proálcool in 1975.

Meanwhile, an unusual coalition of big oil companies, environmental groups and food companies is pushing the government to go even further and reconsider the entire ethanol program.

The market for those RINs exploded from $ 1 billion in 2010 to $ 15 billion by 2016, with the price for those RINs increasing by 5000 % since the ethanol program started in in 2005.

But, as the failed US experience with the mandated and highly subsidized corn ethanol program has shown, this has negative side effects on overall farmland utilization and corn prices worldwide.

They are all convinced that any change, no matter how small or how focused on foreign imports of biodiesel, is a potential threat to the entire biofuel program, including their beloved corn ethanol program.

It's already causing hunger and even starvation in poorer countries (the ethanol program driving up grain prices) and deaths from freezing in Europe when people can't afford $ 100 / MMBtu ($ 10 / therm) natural gas and can't burn coal during some of the coldest winters on record.

Forget that the $ 5 billion + / year federal ethanol program has often been marketed by its legislative champions as a climate - change remedy.

Similarly, Minnesota's ethanol program has displaced 10 percent of gasoline consumption with ethanol.

Brazil's sugarcane - based ethanol program is «appropriate for replication in many countries,» writes José Goldemberg, secretary of the environment for the Brazilian state of São Paulo, in a perspective article in this week's issue of the journal Science.

(This includes ending subsidies for the ethanol program.)

The ethanol program has already raised corn prices, making it hard for poor consumers of corn to eat.

Estimating fossil CO2 produced from, for example, a grain ethanol program takes attention from voters, including scientists.

The ethanol program in the US does not reduce greenhouse gases at all.

President Obama continues to tout his «renewable» energy schemes as a «comprehensive»... «all of the above»... «energy strategy for the future» — even though wind, solar and ethanol programs combined provide less than 4 % of all the energy that powers the United States and makes our jobs, living standards, economy, health and welfare possible.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

Not exact matches

The program's biorefinement labs can produce ethanol and biodiesel; wind and solar are focuses for renewable energy generation.

Dr. James Sandercock, trained as a microbiologist before getting involved with biodegradable plastics and making fuel - grade ethanol for vehicles, is Chair of NAIT's Alternative Energy Technology program.

Despite concerns over Scott Pruitt's record of opposing ethanol, experts say the renewable - fuel program is on safe ground

Pruitt said he would support the U.S. renewable fuels standard, which requires biofuels like ethanol to be blended in gasoline, but said the program needed some tweaks.

«One of the most important concerns with regard to the integrity of pipelines and tanks is the propensity of ethanol at concentrations above 20 volume percent in gasoline to cause cracking of steel,» explains Narasi Sridhar, vice president, director of the materials program at Det Norske Veritas.

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This program can't simply be a taxpayer - subsidized corporate welfare scheme for the ethanol industry.

The second is that someone will ask the candidate whether he or she supports the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS: the federal program that, among other things, requires all gasoline sold in this country to contain a minimum amount of «renewable biofuel» — which in Iowa, of course, means corn - based ethanol.

«There was some interest in converting syngas into ethanol during the first oil crisis back in the 70s,» said Ames Lab chemist and Chemical and Biological Science Program Director Victor Lin.

As part of its retail branding program, gas stations / convenience stores across the U.S. are being branded as VP Racing Fuels, with each providing distribution for VP's other product lines, including ethanol - free VP Small Engine Fuels, formulated for 2 - and 4 - cycle outdoor power equipment; VP Madditive ™ performance chemicals; and VP / PowerMaster © hobby fuels for R / C Racing.

Biofuels PACE Program provides interest buydown on loans to biodiesel, ethanol or green diesel production facilities and livestock operations.

The United States spends about $ 6 billion a year on federal support for ethanol production through tax credits, tariffs, and other programs.

In Brazil ethanol has become economically competitive with gasoline, and the country's biofuels program could serve as a world model for producing sustainable energy, officials say.

Last year, to much fanfare, the first batch of qualifying cellulosic ethanol was produced (i.e., it qualified for credits under the EPA program for certifying ethanol for sales).

Similarly, the Energy Commission's Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program created by Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) is providing approximately $ 36 million in cost - share support for projects that receive awards through DOE solicitations covering alternative transportation fuel and technology areas such as electric drive, ethanol, hydrogen, natural gas, renewable diesel and biodiesel, propane, and market and development activities.

Biofuel programs pursued by Europe and the United States during the last two decades caused an additional 41 million hectares of land to be used for ethanol and biodiesel production, an area the size of Germany.

«One of our take - home messages is that conservation programs are currently a cheaper and more efficient greenhouse gas policy for taxpayers than corn - ethanol production,» said study leader and Duke biologist Robert Jackson.

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).

Qteros has a genetic - engineering program in place to optimize the microbe for use in large - scale ethanol production.

[From Green Car Congress:] EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today proposed a Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program designed to double the US use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.

Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18 percent of the country's automotive fuel.

Various renewable fuels can be used to meet the requirements of RFS program, including ethanol and biodiesel.

Same type of programs in my backyard, except it is for ethanol production.

And finally on the renewable fuels side, it includes a $ 20 million program to build a cellulosic ethanol facility to create the first pilot - plant (we hope) that will produce ethanol from woody biomass as opposed to corn, and thereby drastically raising the energy balance of the ethanol.

In addition, strong CO2 abatement programs are likely to knock a percent or two off economic growth rates and, if ethanol is still a preferred tactic, will likely substantially raise food prices as well.

Information is available on the RFS itself, as well as problems that have made the program and its ethanol mandates untenable — like the refining «blend wall,» potential risks to vehicle and equipment engines and impacts on food prices.

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supply.

(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.

You need to wake up, get with the program, and learn more about how Corn Ethanol lowers greenhouse gas emissions, and stretches America's energy supply.

If you look at this part of the tax code, many of the energy - related tax incentives will expire at the end of 2011, including the section 1603 program; the credit for energy - efficient residential retrofits; the credit for construction of new energy - efficient homes; the credit for energy efficient appliances; and the incentives for alcohol fuels (mostly ethanol), biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Corn ethanol does not need the mandate to survive in the market, and doing away with only the implied - corn ethanol part of the program would make the mandate worse by focusing it on expensive «advanced» biofuels.

The initiative aims to reduce dependence on foreign oil and cut emissions from transportation, but some analysts have questioned the effectiveness of the program, since the bulk of «renewable» fuel is expected to come from corn ethanol, which environmentalists say has mixed climate benefits.

NERA set up its study that way for good reasons: Despite abundant evidence that RFS mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use in the nation's fuel supply are detached from reality, and although it's pretty clear EPA has mismanaged the RFS to the detriment of those obligated to meet its mandates — the ethanol industry insists that the program continue as statutorily set out in 2007.