Sentences with phrase «from ethanol made from corn»

The ethanol lobby claims there's a 30 percent net gain in BTUs from ethanol made from corn.

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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.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

The U.S. is drunk on ethanol — but whether it is made from corn or sugarcane, the crop - derived biofuel raises a host of questions

The goal, however, is $ 1.07 — what NREL and the Energy Department figured was the cost to make a gallon of ethanol from corn kernels at the time NREL made the enzyme pact.

Chemists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are closing in on cheap ways to make cellulosic ethanol, a form of ethanol derived from agricultural waste rather than food crops like soybeans or corn.

Ethanol, an alcohol that can be made from corn, is now widely used as a gasoline additive due to its oxygen content and octane rating, or antiknock index.

Most of the emissions from clearing land happen right away, a step that makes corn ethanol's greenhouse emissions look very bad at first before they gradually improve over longer and longer time periods.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

The U.S. Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels, including ethanol made from corn stover.

If she can perfect the process, it could lead to inexpensive biofuels that are made from inedible crops — not from corn like most of today's ethanol.

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.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from 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 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.

Speaking of a bio-based economy, did the push for biofuels like ethanol from corn make farming's problems worse?

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

I don't see how our subsidies for making ethanol from corn, for example, spill over to the production of high fructose corn syrup.

Ethanol is derived primarily from corn but can be made from virtually any starch feed stock such as sugarcane, wheat or barley.

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.

Where will that energy come from if we make many more poor choices like corn ethanol (a systems analysis of which showed that it took more total energy to produce than it delivered).

For years we've been promised the next generation of biofuels, made from waste cellulose, but we have yet to see it replace corn ethanol.

Ethanol made from corn is wrong policy, make so many people starvation.

David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

https://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/News-by-Topic/Wildlife/2015/04-02-15-New-Report-Cropland-Expansion-Outpaces-Agricultural-and-Biofuels-Policies.aspx Also that ethanol was being made from corn.

Making ethanol from corn reduces atmospheric releases of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide because the CO2 emitted when the ethanol burns is «canceled out» by the carbon dioxide taken in by the next crop of growing plants, which use it in photosynthesis.

The 88 percent figure is what the Wang study concluded would be accomplished by ethanol made from switchgrass, which holds greater promise of greenhouse gas reduction than corn - based ethanol, but isn't yet being produced in large quantities.

The United States alone would require six times its arable land — and 75 percent of the world's cultivated land — to supply its needs with ethanol made from corn, according to calculations by Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba.

Just growing corn and preserving it in a salt mine forever whilst making gasoline from coal or natural gas will even capture far more carbon than using it for ethanol does.

For instance, how is changing all our oil dependency to ethanol made from corn going to solve our crisis.

Let's not forget ethanol is made from food crops such as corn and right now there's a drought in much of the Midwest, which is causing corn and other crop prices to rise.

If someone wants to buy field corn (that's what they make ethanol from,) they can buy All They Want, today, for $ 0.06 / lb.

The EPA claims that ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has only a minimal impact on food prices.

Ethanol made from a prairie grass shows promise as a viable fuel that could be much more environmentally friendly and energy - efficient than corn ethanol, a new studEthanol made from a prairie grass shows promise as a viable fuel that could be much more environmentally friendly and energy - efficient than corn ethanol, a new studethanol, a new study says.

I was reminded of Canute's story when considering the latest Environmental Protection Agency numbers for cellulosic ethanol — a hoped - for alternative to corn - based ethanol made from switchgrass and wood chips.

Ethanol will never be THE fuel due to the fact that it's made from corn.

On longer drives, it would use a fuel mix of 80 % ethanol — alcohol, in the U.S. made mainly from corn — and 20 % gas.

The Scientific American reports that roughly 40 percent of today's corn crop is used for ethanol made from corn, which is added to gasoline.

(For context, the price of a gallon of processed ethanol made from corn is now $ 2.40 a gallon.)

The peak in United States wheat production is probably due to the shifting of wheat area to corn and soybeans areas to make biofuels (ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans) rather than the current peaking of crude - oil extraction

By playing up jingoistic fears of «energy dependence,» King Corn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlCorn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlcorn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlier.

For almost a decade, the Senate Ag Committee has been the primary benefactor of ethanol, a fuel made from corn.

Another $ 16.8 billion went to ethanol made from corn.

Why not make ethanol from corn stover?

This is how we can produce massive quantities of domestic biofuel and solve our liquid fuel demand: We could remove the starch from ALL of our feed corn (instead of just part of it) to make more ethanol.

Ethanol made from corn grain, beets, sugarcane, wheat and other first - generation feedstocks is getting a bad rap these days.

In 2014, over 40 percent of corn grown in the U.S. was used to make ethanol, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Ethanol made from corn only contains marginally more energy than what is needed to produce it.

Far from having a substantial impact on reducing net emissions of GHG, Wolf says, European rapeseed oil - based diesel and U.S. corn - based ethanol have in fact only made small contributions - 13 % less than conventional diesel and 18 % less than petrol, respectively.