Sentences with phrase «even as a biofuel»

Now we've seen bagasse used to make disposable cutlery and plates and even as a biofuel for power stations, but this is the first time we've seen it used to make sturdy structures.

Not exact matches

But even without record - breaking heat, recent years have seen food riots from Bangladesh to Haiti as world agriculture was pushed to the breaking point by a combination of greater demand for food, biofuels and poor weather.

Increasingly, it is used in the commercial food industry due to its high content of saturated fat, and it has even been tested as a potential biofuel.

Venter's quest for synthetic life ultimately aims to create purpose - built organisms that can carry out specific roles, such as producing biofuels or even making hydrogen.

But even better would be biofuels that use cheap, widespread plant matter such as leaves and grasses rather than food crops.

But biofuels that use cheap, widespread plant matter such as leaves and grasses would be even more attractive than food crops.

Even in a cool climate as in Finland, algae might be used to produce biochemicals and biofuels, besides use in capture of industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

However, the CSU analysis finds that the details of where and how you grow the plant material is just as significant or even more significant for the greenhouse gas footprint of the biofuel, said Field.

The goal of the research is to alter oilseeds to produce large amounts of modified oil that can be used as improved biofuels or even industrial and food - related applications.

While laying out several important wild cards (expanded farming of biofuels among them), Ausubel and his co-authors see a reasonable prospect for conserving, and restoring, forests and other stressed terrestrial ecosystems even as humanity exerts an ever greater influence on the planet.

After many interviews with biologists and climate scientists focused on the Amazon, as well as people like Bruce Babbitt, the former United States secretary of the interior who has spent a lot of time crisscrossing the Amazon, I remain convinced that there is a path to development for Brazil — even with the growing global appetite for soy and biofuels and roads to the Pacific — that can preserve a large fraction of the vast forest region.

Even if the cut area is replaced with food crops (as has happened in the Amazon as part of the biofuel misadventure), it takes years before the rate of CO2 absorption rises to the previous level, and with some crops, it may never happen.

The global boom in biofuels is laden with environmental and social risks, even as it presents strong new prospects for mitigating human - caused global warming, a new UN study says.

As noted earlier, eliminating biofuel mandates and subsidies while uprooting the false assumption of carbon - neutrality from EPA's Clean Power Plan would do more to reduce the unfair advantages of bioenergy than even the most inclusively - designed carbon tax.

Thus as CRUDE OIL production couldn't increase even in a high price environment, the condensate, biofuels, and tiny amounts of synthetics have kept production «increasing».

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).

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

Indirect land use change is unfolding as a scandal, possibly even premeditated by CARB and the EPA to restrict biofuels and protect the petroleum industry.

IEA highlights production growth outlook for Brazilian oil and biofuels even as demand dips Deputy Executive Director presents medium - term forecast at event organised by Ministry of Mines and Energy 20 April 2016

However, oil demand from passenger cars declines even as the number of vehicles doubles in the next quarter century, thanks mainly to improvements in efficiency, but also biofuels and rising ownership of electric cars.

Flawed accounting could even encourage greater expansion of biofuels that cause damaging changes in land use, as described in the September 15 EEA Scientific Committee opinion.

Apart from their role as captive consumers, the refiners are in no position to ensure, or even contribute to, growth in the cellulosic biofuel industry.

As technology after technology — biofuel, hydrogen, wind, solar — was wheeled out and presented, it was patently clear that they knew and we knew and they knew we knew that none of it was going to be a viable competitor to fossil without massive subsidies, and even then it wasn't really competitive.

[11] The particular confusion here is that a broad category of non-land-use CO2 emissions is frequently called «fossil fuel emissions», even though it usually includes modern biofuels used for energy, and often non-energy industrial CO2 emissions (e.g. from cement manufacturing) as well.

Even without large yield increases, cropland requirements to meet biofuel production targets may not be nearly as great as assumed.

As I've said before and will continue to say until we stop opening corn ethanol plants, corn ethanol is a dead end and of limited utility as even an intermediary step towards better biofuelAs I've said before and will continue to say until we stop opening corn ethanol plants, corn ethanol is a dead end and of limited utility as even an intermediary step towards better biofuelas even an intermediary step towards better biofuels.

Instead of feeding cereals to livestock, the report recommends «recycling food wastes and deploying new technologies, aimed at producing biofuels, to produce sugars from discards such as straw and even nutshells could be a key environmentally - friendly alternative to increased use of cereals for livestock.»

Even with the airlines jumping on the bandwagon, biofuels have nevertheless garnered some criticism recently as to whether they actually cause more emissions than previously thought.

In the second part of his series, he explores how biofuels made from perennial grasses can store carbon in the soil to actually have a negative greenhouse gas impact, and even points to the possibility of creating charcoal as a biproduct of biofuel production and then burying it in the ground:

With this in mind, climate change could be just another unique opportunity for weeds and other hardy plants to fulfill other roles: as potential biofuel candidates (kudzu, swtichgrass and jatropha for example), as a source of natural materials for furniture, or even as food — because weeds are evolving, just as we are.

«It would be highly precipitous... for the United Nations or other international bodies to single out biofuels as the major cause for escalating food prices and take actions that might lead to even higher food prices,» the industry group argued.

Even if mitigation were likely to be effective, it would do more harm than good: already millions face starvation as the dash for biofuels takes agricultural land out of essential food production: a warning that taking precautions, «just in case», can do untold harm unless there is a sound, scientific basis for them.

Some advocates want even greater federal incentives for biomass, such as woody biomass from federal lands to qualify as renewable feedstock for biofuels production.

It had the potential both to shock the world into economic transformation, averting future catastrophes, and to generate catastrophes of its own, including a shift into even more damaging technologies, such as biofuels and petrol made from coal.