Sentences with phrase «for ethanol in»

The expansion of corn for ethanol in the American Midwest has worsened water pollution and soil erosion, and has had no benefit in terms of reduced emissions.

Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Production for Ethanol in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada, Climate Change Issues, 644 - 651.

The Effect of Differential Rearing Conditions on the Consumption of and Operant Responding for Ethanol in the Indiana University Selectively Bred Alcohol - preferring (p) and - non - Preferring (np) Rat Lines

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When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

In Iowa, for instance, the boom in natural gas has meant trouble for the local ethanol industrIn Iowa, for instance, the boom in natural gas has meant trouble for the local ethanol industrin natural gas has meant trouble for the local ethanol industry.

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper also unveiled $ 1.5 billion in subsidies for ethanol and biodiesel production this past summer.

Much of the ETBE used in Japan is already made in the United States using Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, so the new rules should make it easy for producers to switch quickly to U.S. corn - based sources.

(Most gasoline contains 10 % ethanol, but regulators have approached E-15 (15 % ethanol) for use in vehicles manufactured from 2001 on, and all new car warranties approve the use of E-15.)

The nation's energy policy calls for so much ethanol that it consumes 40 % of the corn produced in the United States.

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

«For the first time, the U.S. ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statemeFor the first time, the U.S. ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statemefor a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statement.

Indeed, The New York Times reported in March that Mr. Icahn was pressing for a change in a requirement that refiners be held responsible for ensuring that corn - based ethanol is mixed into gasoline.»

A proposal to reduce the amount of ethanol in gas could mean big changes for gas prices and grocery bills.

Also in the Post, Terence Corcoran wonders whether Corn Cob Bob — the friendly spokesmascot for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association — will survive its ongoing battle with the C.D. Howe Institute, which recently released a report questioning the environmental and economic justifications for corn ethanol subsidies.

In 2008, subsidies to produce corn ethanol reduced the amount of corn available for food.

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

In addition there are versions of corn that can be grown where the stalk and leaves have been modified to produce the material for ethanol while the grain can be harvested for food.

Hi, I bought vanilla extract but realised it has ethanol in it — will this still be OK for candida sufferers?

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

«The uses for corn in ethanol production coupled with drought conditions throughout the Midwest growing regions have led to dramatic price increases affecting everything from prepared foods to animal feed for our dairy and meat products,» he states.

In addition to ethanol, LifeLine also creates corn oil for the biodiesel industry, thus enabling it to cut down on waste while expanding its market reach.

For other recipes beware that extractives (such as vanilla) are usually extracted in corn - derived ethanol.

The explanation for the hefty price of free - range eggs has something to do with the dynamics of increased corn production for ethanol and the resulting decrease in production of other less expensive feed.

Meanwhile, new reports in the United States showed that two million acres of native grasslands have been converted to corn and soy monocultures in the past five years alone, driven in part by government subsidies and targets for the ethanol industry.

I used in my extraction methods the full AOAC method and also used acetonitrile sonication and ethanol sonication and compared the results for these.

Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).

These criteria, combined with recommended processing procedures (harvesting in a sterile manner, repeated washings, immersion in ethanol, freezing in liquid nitrogen, freeze - drying, demineralization, and vacuum sealing), render DFDBA and FDBA grafts safe for human implantation.

There are very few things that are subsidized in the US, the biggest of which is probably ethanol, but that is for US consumption.

Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.

In the long run, consumers did not appear to have been greatly punished at the pump for using ethanol.

In 1979, when ethanol was called gasohol, Lunz saw an ad in a newspaper for an on - farm ethanol planIn 1979, when ethanol was called gasohol, Lunz saw an ad in a newspaper for an on - farm ethanol planin a newspaper for an on - farm ethanol plant.

The plant opened for business in November 1994, with the capacity to make 15 million gallons of ethanol a year.

After a much - quoted warning that «America is addicted to oil» in this year's State of the Union address, President Bush called for «cutting - edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switchgrass.

Using Patzek's methodology for every aspect of ethanol production save the conversion process itself, a gallon of Corn Plus ethanol consumes less energy than it contains — even before factoring in credit for coproducts.

This is a fluidized bed reactor, an energy - generation technology that has been used for decades to power paper mills and waste - treatment plants but that had never before been installed in an ethanol plant.

«We're looking at wood chips and other feedstock sources that are not necessarily in the mainstream for ethanol but are in abundance in our region.

Last year about 1.6 billion bushels of corn were fermented in the United States to produce 4 billion gallons of ethanol, double the amount for 2001.

After dissolving plant biomass by the novel solvent, carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, hydrolysis and fermentation were consecutively carried out in one reaction pot for conversion into ethanol.

7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid — formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol — into the soil each year.

For 2006, the Bush administration proposed just over $ 50 million for ethanol research, less than half what Clinton's budget requested in 20For 2006, the Bush administration proposed just over $ 50 million for ethanol research, less than half what Clinton's budget requested in 20for ethanol research, less than half what Clinton's budget requested in 2001.

In another experiment, bagasse was used as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.

KERRY: The senator has proposed «a new Manhattan Project to make America independent of Middle East oil in 10 years» by increasing the use of alternative fuels like ethanol and insisting that standards for auto mileage be raised.

«The idea is that a small reduction in alcohol — such as beer with four per cent ethanol content versus six per cent — would reduce alcohol intake per drinker even if the same overall amount of beverage is consumed,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, lead author and Director of the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada.

Back in 1992, when I had started losing my hearing, a friend lent me a jar full of newly collected velvet asities preserved in ethanol to use for some anatomical research.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

«Corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings [in greenhouse gas emissions], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years,» the researchers write.

In the most conservative countries, low - risk consumption means drinking no more than 10 g of pure ethanol per day for women, 20 g for men.

And unlike the corn used to produce ethanol in the United States, algae do not compete with food for farmland, one of the biggest problems with current biofuels.

Ethanol demand in the U.S., for example, has caused some farmers to plant more corn and less soy.