Sentences with phrase «for liquid biofuels»

Devoting land to growing feedstock for liquid biofuels, or growing biomass for generating electricity, augurs the greatest potential energy sprawl of the major energy alternatives under discussion.

All these supports and promotion schemes for liquid biofuels should be scrapped, because of overwhelming scientific evidence that using land to produce energy crops delivers no climate benefits at all once agricultural emissions and land - use change are taken into account.

Sugar cane is the most economically attractive agricultural feedstock for liquid biofuel, while maize and other cereal and oilseed crops from the Northern Hemisphere are less competitive under market conditions (Figure 16).

As most of the growth in demand for liquid biofuel is expected in developed countries, the scope for trade is the main factor affecting development plans in the majority of developing countries.

Not exact matches

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

But what makes ionic liquids great for deconstruction also makes it harmful for the downstream enzymes and bacteria used in biofuel production.

These findings have significance for human health but also for biofuels production, since the same sugars can be fed to yeast to generate ethanol and other liquid fuels.

But rather than searching for ways to stretch the oil we still have — like a modern Hanukkah — it makes more sense to accelerate development of clean alternatives such as electric cars or biofuels from algae — and avoid dirty ones like turning coal or tar sands to liquid fuels.

The department says preference will be given to trials involving liquid petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas and electricity (for adapted vehicles), rather than «biofuels» such as rape methyl ester (RME), derived from rape seed oil.

If we can turn lignin byproducts into ionic liquids, we could create a closed - loop process that would help drive down the costs of biofuels for the mass market.»

Of this, 1.3 mb / d, or 60 %, has come from natural gas liquids and biofuels, which really shouldn't be added to conventional crude production for purposes of calculating the available supply.

Liquid fuel providers — producing and selling diesel fuel, gasoline, or biofuels — and electricity providers — «fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete for the transportation dollar.

«I am struck by the lack of fundamental breakthroughs required for an abundant, clean energy future, whether in electricity generation from wind, coal (IGCC), ocean thermal, ocean wave, ocean tide, solar, nuclear, or liquids from coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, biofuels, bio-engineered fuels, and so on.»

Overall, biofuels now account for about 1 percent of the global liquid fuels market.

He said, however, that liquid biofuels can and should play a central role in reducing the transportation sector's petroleum dependence, alongside programs to reduce vehicle sizes, charge for carbon emissions, and encourage lifestyles requiring less personal mobility.

Bush's proposal would be to increase our level of biofuels production by 35 billion gallons in the next 10 years (although some have informed me that this is actually for all alternative fuels, which would include coal to liquids).

Substituting biofuels for marginal fossil - based liquid fuels results in the avoidance of significant GHG emissions that are not currently accounted for in the European Renewable Energy Directive (2009 / 28 / EC), according to a new analysis by the consultancy Ecofys.

Furthermore, liquid cellulosic biofuel technologies were expected to develop within a few years of EISA07, but by the end of 2017, only one tenth of one percent of the volume congress had hoped for was actually produced.

The report warned that increasing production of liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, could increase the price of agricultural commodities with negative economic and social impacts, especially for the world's poor who spend a large proportion of income on food.

Other factors may reduce demand on forests for energy production, for example, technological problems with liquid cellulosic biofuel production and transportation - related constraints.

The development of economically competitive technology for the production of liquid cellulosic biofuels will cause a major shift in the importance of wood energy.

Bioenergy can, for instance, be derived from solid woodfuels, such as fuelwood and charcoal or from liquid biofuels, such as black liquor (a by - product from the paper industry) and ethanol obtained from wood.

3.2 «First generation» liquid biofuels include biodiesel and bioethanol and are derived from various food crops that vary by geographical location, for instance cereals, rapeseed and sugar cane.

In a new report, «Biofuels for Transportation Markets», Navigant Research forecasts that global demand for biofuels in the road transportation sector will grow from representing almost 6 % of the liquid fuels market in 2013 to roughly 8 % by 2022.

The only currently viable alternative liquid fuels — biofuels — have proven problematic for all sorts of environmental and economic reasons.

But we see as the best long - term strategy to electrify as many gasoline / diesel miles as possible then use the cleanest liquid fuel possible for the range extension, evolving that as soon as possible to renewable low - carbon biofuels.

Researchers from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSMT) are heading a project to to investigate methane cycling in deep and extreme environments and to develop new biological routes using previously unexplored and novel microorganisms from extreme environments for converting methane into value - added products such as liquid biofuels, biopolymers,... Read more →

Liquid biofuels might offer advantages in terms of emissions — though clearly not on measures of water intensity — but they have a very tall mountain to climb to become capable of delivering energy on the scale required for the world's growing air, sea and land transportation needs, including not just developing Asia but now also Africa.

The idea that we could fight a war with corn ethanol and soy biodiesel, (which account for about 99.9 percent of our liquid biofuels) is ludicrous, which is why the military has been funding research for alternatives.

The project will be a joint affair between Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park, and Qatar Petroleum: Based on feasibility studies on biomass - to - liquid jet fuel (think: second - generation biofuels) done by Seattle's Verno Systems, the trio have established the Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform which will be active in the following areas developing: 1) an engineering and implementation plan for «economically viable and sustainable biofuel production»; 2) a biofuel investment strategy; 3) an advanced technology development program; 4) ongoing market and strategic anBiofuel Platform which will be active in the following areas developing: 1) an engineering and implementation plan for «economically viable and sustainable biofuel production»; 2) a biofuel investment strategy; 3) an advanced technology development program; 4) ongoing market and strategic anbiofuel production»; 2) a biofuel investment strategy; 3) an advanced technology development program; 4) ongoing market and strategic anbiofuel investment strategy; 3) an advanced technology development program; 4) ongoing market and strategic analysis.

The «technology to eliminate fossil fuel combustion» includes solar and wind energy, geothermal energy, a variety of hydropower energy sources, combustion of biomass to generate electricity (an entirely different matter than liquid biofuels for transport) and more — ALL of which is already at hand, and already being deployed at both large and small scales all over the world.

Renewable energy policies, for example, are estimated to have saved around 96 Mt of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2005 by increasing renewable electricity production in the 25 EU countries four-fold between 1990 and 2005, and boosting production of renewable heat and liquid biofuels for transport by 20 %.

That said, some sort of tax system for liquid fuels with a rebate for those buying approved biofuels might be part of such a system.

The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a partnership between three national laboratories and three Bay Area universities, was formed in June 2007 after the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the institute a $ 125 million grant to develop better methods for making liquid biofuels from the natural cellulose in trees and grasses.

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