Sentences with phrase «focus on biofuels»

Transportation policies that favor electric vehicles or even self - driving cars, for example, could someday lower emissions; in the energy sector, an increased focus on biofuels or hydrogen production could do the same; and in agriculture, slow release fertilizers could reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

In September 2006 Branson announced that he would invest three billion dollars over ten years into Virgin Fuels and focus on biofuels.

We're now looking at the world of biology and asking how to use our tools to make a more sustainable world with a focus on biofuels and renewable materials, for example.»

PF: It needs to hire bright, young people with the intellectual rigor and curiosity to get out of the investment banking stranglehold focusing on biofuels and large - scale wind and solar and start looking at other technologies within cleantech.

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But its focus on transparency — making sure people know how and why data will flow if they choose to click «I agree» — combined with supersized fines for major data violations represents something of an existential threat to ad tech processes that rely on pervasive background harvesting of users» personal data to be siphoned biofuel for their vast, proprietary microtargeting engines.

GEX holds a wide spectrum of companies that earn at least 1/2 their revenues from the broader renewable energy industry, which includes solar, wind, biofuel and geothermal players, as well as companies focused on energy efficiency.

The Energy Department focuses on the next generation of energy technologies — from advanced nuclear reactors to algae biofuels — conducting basic research in its network of 17 national laboratories, and aiding private companies struggling to bring risky new technologies to market.

Vinod Khosla, a recognized investor in clean technology, outlines how we can better focus our attention on wind power, biofuels, the smart grid and carbon capture.

While at UT, David was a researcher in the Webber Energy Group, where his research focused on advanced biofuel production to offset petroleum use in the transportation sector.

We must focus on bringing together wind, solar, natural gas, biofuels, hydroelectric, geothermal and advanced clean coal as part of a diversified energy portfolio since there is no single solution.

Initiated in 2009, CCEI has focused on transformational catalytic technology to produce renewable chemicals and biofuels from natural biomass sources.

«The most sensible thing to do in Finland is to integrate cultivation into industrial processes with spill heat and to integration into industrial processes with spill heat and focus development on the production of biofuels and biochemical compounds, and on nutrient removal from effluents.

For Woodford, who moved his family from Minnesota to Iowa to sell equipment and work on Project Liberty, the focus is getting farmers and equipment company engineers ready for the biofuel boom.

We believe that government support is essential but should be biased toward lowest - cost and lowest - environmental - impact biofuels rather than focusing on a particular technology.

We have enough areas of agreement that I believe we can begin to focus on real solutions to both our energy security and climate change problems and that these solutions will involve, at least to some extent, biofuels.

Previous studies on cellulosic biofuels have focused on the engineering details of the supply chain.

Richardson focuses on harnessing bacteria to make molecules that could lead to the development of new biofuels and medicines.

The Institute is a partnership of three national laboratories and three universities focused on developing biofuels.

Lou Burke, manager of biofuels for ConocoPhillips, says the company is still largely focused on finding more cost - effective ways to extract and refine traditional oil and gas.

So while we're still focused on artemisinin, we are starting biofuels projects in the lab that will ramp up even more once the artemisinin project is completed.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

Quinn said most previous studies on potential biofuel plants, or feedstocks, focused on identifying highly invasive ones that should be avoided if possible.

Headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., BESC is a multi-institutional research organization performing basic and applied science dedicated to improving yields of biofuels by focusing on the fundamental understanding and elimination of biomass recalcitrance.

Some technologies focus on improved ways of breaking down biomass for conversion into fuel, some on engineering plants with the characteristics most advantageous for biofuels, and still others on creating co-products that can help make advanced biofuels economically viable.

Because removing oxygen is crucial for biofuel production, the team focused on how water interferes with two oxygen - removal paths driven by a zeolite catalyst.

The peer - reviewed book focuses on using computational modeling to answer fundamental questions in catalysis, biofuels, and other sustainable solutions.

Research in this program involves work with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management.

Dr. Lee's research group is focusing on identifying potential drop - in biofuels and building and optimizing the metabolic pathway to produce these target fuels in microbes.

And thankfully, the rise of biofuels, a growing interest in carbon offsets, and an increased focus on eco-tourism are all contributing to a more sustainable airline industry.

This report argues that over the next decade and beyond, U.S. national, state, and local policy must focus on developing sustainable biofuels — rather than just more biofuels — that can play a role in the emerging new energy economy.

The focus on «sustainable» biofuels is a step back from several years of overheated pursuit of farmed fuels as a large - scale energy source.]

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.

The Norwegian government has told Avinor, the Norwegian administrator of state owned airports and navigation services, to focus on electric aircraft and biofuels in order to reduce the environmental footprint of the aviation industry.

The report calls for greater debate about biofuels before ploughing headlong into a completely biofuel - powered society, although it focuses mainly on first generation fuels, unlike the Science papers.

(In the IEA's accelerated scenario — which sees added policy focus and investment put on biofuels in India, Brazil and the US — biofuel production is 16 % higher again.

The focus is on so - called first generation biofuels while considering further lines of development.

Our modelling focuses on scenarios projecting how rapidly we can gain significant national fleet - wide reductions in fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions — with and without new PHEVs, conversions, other efficiencies, and low - carbon biofuels.

The focus is on so - called first generation biofuels, due to availability of state - of — the art reviews, but also considers further lines of development.

The debate over biofuels and economics has tended to focus on mandates and subsidies rather than carbon taxes — unsurprisingly, given the absence of carbon - taxing in the U.S. and the prevalence of large biofuel subsidies, primarily via the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Criticisms of policies that encourage biofuels have appropriately focused on the perverse effects of mandates and subsidies, especially land - use shifts from carbon - sequestering forestry or food production to biofuel crops.

Last year, it signed agreements with six companies, including one in Brazil, and decided to drop its other renewable efforts to focus solely on biofuels.

And we recently announced the launch of an advanced biofuels research program at Iowa State University focused on fast pyrolysis of biomass.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

The focus on Sweden — an EU and global bioenergy pioneer — along with Brazil — a recognized global biofuels leader — helps to illustrate the linkages to regional and global markets that are important for European energy transitions.

As a result of the 2007 law, written by Democrats, a significant part of that effort is now focused on developing advanced biofuels like those made from algae with reduced carbon footprints.

Focusing on the carbon emissions associated with tropical deforestation, it showed that converting rainforests or grasslands to corn, soybean, or palm oil biofuel production led to a carbon emissions increase — a «biofuel carbon debt» — that was at least 37 times greater than the annual reduction in greenhouse gases resulting from the shift from fossil fuels to biofuels.

The Energy Flows visualisation focuses on the transport, industry and buildings sectors, highlighting the different fuels (from oil to biofuels), sectors (from petrochemicals to residential) and end uses (from water heating to lighting) that will be affected in the years ahead according to the 2DS.

My columns have covered LEDs, solar power, wind power, demand - response, green chemistry, smart grid innovation, water technologies, geothermal, biofuels (with a big focus on algae), electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, wave and tidal power, biogas, waste reduction, energy storage, advanced materials... you name it.

We are focused on maximizing project success, using our knowledge of best practices in the biofuels industry to create sustainable power that allows our country to reduce its dependency on overseas energy markets and minimize future exploitation of dwindling fossil fuels.

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.