Sentences with phrase «ethanol yield»

For example, corn ethanol yields less energy than is required to grow and produce it.

There are higher ethanol yield crops that can be grown in areas unsuitable for corn.

The media speak of Algae oil, several recent articles in the media, or grasses that increase existing ethanol yields by up to 250 % (recently reported again in the UK media), of CCS trials in Australia, of CCS ready power stations (hillarious to be fair) and of wind and solar farms portrayed as if they will solve our carbon emissions issues.

«We increased the amount of biomass yield of field - grown switchgrass sixfold, and we increased the amount of ethanol yield sevenfold per plant,» Mohnen said.

A presentation at last year's St. Louis Renewable Energy Conference from Keith Collins, Chief Economist at the USDA, showed that corn ethanol yields 14 - 20 % ethanol, while cellulosic is a paltry 4 %.

On the whole the ethanol yield per gram of wood is 20 % higher.

It must be possible to improve the ethanol yield per tree with 50 to 100 %.»

«We're pretty confident the ethanol yield is pretty close.»

In addition to their findings on corn, they determined that making ethanol from switch grass requires 50 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol yields, wood biomass 57 percent more, and sunflowers 118 percent more.

The ethanol yield per acre from sugarcane is nearly 600 gallons, a third higher than that from corn.

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).