Sentences with phrase «for ethanol produced»

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

You can «absolutely» make money by going green, said Khosla, who believes ethanol can eventually be produced for less than $ 1 a gallon.

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.

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

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.

«Although we produce ethanol, our primary focus remains on high - quality food ingredients for discriminating customers.»

Cogeneration facilities for producing ethanol and refined sugar are also planned.

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.

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.

There is certainly a case for re-doubling the scientific efforts to produce bio-fuels on lands which do not compete with food crops, for example from cellulosic ethanol, but this technology is still not ready for the market.

The remaining sugar (for plants with less than 20 % oil) could be sold or used to produce ethanol.

«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.

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.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

The study is the second major report this month calling for greater research on the environmental effects of producing ethanol and other renewable transportation fuels.

Finding a cost - effective method for breaking down the tough cellulose in plant matter to produce ethanol has been a tough challenge, involving both innovations in chemistry and in field operations like the baling feeder developed by Woodford.

This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop.

«But there are ways to obtain ethanol for fuel from fermentation that produce something that chemically is very much like beer — so beer is an excellent readily available model to test our technology.»

The report added that «a biorefinery that produces 100 million gallons of ethanol per year, for example, would use the equivalent of the water supply for a town of about 5,000 people.»

«The amount of ethanol produced by chemical catalysis is around 70 or 80 gallons perton,» says Wes Bolsen, chief marketing officer for Coskata, located in Warrenville, Illinois.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

Searchinger's outlook is bleaker: He estimates that the rise in corn - based ethanol production in the United States would increase greenhouse gases, relative to what our current, fossil - fuel - based economy produces, for 167 years.

«Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn ethanol from switchgrass and corn stover.

And farmers have figured out a way for ethanol to be more energy - producing than energy - consuming.

George Huber, chemical engineer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Bright Idea: Produce ethanol or other renewable fuels from biomass that we do not use for food.

LanzaTech has partnered with Global Fortune 500 Companies and others to use this technology, including facilities that can each produce 100,000 gallons per year of ethanol, and a number of chemical ingredients for the manufacture of plastics.

Among the multiple applications for different processing pathways of corn or sorghum ethanol are four pathways from LytEn for hydrogen produced from biomethane; four pathways for renewable... Read more →

Simultaneous Co-Fermentation of Mixed Sugars: A Promising Strategy for Producing Cellulosic Ethanol, Soo Rin Kim, Suk - Jin Ha, Na Wei, Eun Joong Oh, Yong - Jin, Trends in Biotechnology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibntech.2012.01.005, February 20, 2012.

When you account for these factors, corn ethanol — currently the most widely produced biofuel in the United States — generates about 43 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Using corn to produce ethanol has driven up food prices in recent years, and converting forests and other areas into farmland to grow more corn for biofuels may well negate ethanol's improved greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

Methanol is used for producing biodiesel, as a fuel, denaturant for ethanol, and is a greenhouse gas.

The real reason for the existence of ethanol fuel is that it is somewhat easier to produce ethanol from agricultural products than it is to produce biogasoline.

Furthermore, the Brazilian subsidiary began producing flex - fuel versions for the Civic and the Fit models, capable of running on any blend of gasoline (E20 to E25 blend in Brazil) and ethanol up to E100.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuel.

The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

Meanwhile, we are witnessing an extraordinary increase in disastrous climatic changes as well as shortages of wheat due, in part to weather conditions and also to conversion of wheat fields to produce corn for ethanol.

Clearcutting rainforests for corn to produce Ethanol?

Importing sugar - based ethanol from Brazil will create a market for that product in the U.S. — and that will produce a sweet new market for Florida sugarcane growers, too.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

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

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

for example, someone from the ethanol lobby had a letter in the times pointing to some 300 000 000 (million) gallons of ethanol for road fuel produced i a recent year.

The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply for hardship exemptions from the RFS ethanol blending requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000 tons of biomass per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel per day.

If I produced corn ethanol, and the price of oil went up, I'd charge a lot more for my ethanol to maximize profitability while my competitor's prices were high, which, in a nutshell is why ethanol does little to protect consumers from oil price spikes.

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).

The largest application for biomass is to burn it directly or to ferment it to produce ethanol.

For example, a farmer in northern Iowa could plant an acre in corn that yields enough grain to produce roughly $ 1,000 worth of fuel - grade ethanol per year, or he could use that same acre to site a turbine producing $ 300,000 worth of electricity each year.

In fact, cumulative new ethanol production since 2005 has accounted for 62 % of new domestically - produced liquid fuels, while cumulative new U.S. crude oil production has accounted for 38 %.