We had long been working to reveal and oppose large scale industrial and commercial scale bioenergy in various forms ranging
from ethanol refineries to soy and palm oil biodiesel to coal plants converting over to burn wood.
Not exact matches
Colorado - based Range Fuels received an $ 80 million loan guarantee
from the USDA to help fund its
refinery, which began production by making methanol instead of
ethanol last year.
Millions in government grants go to start the state's first commercial
refinery for
ethanol made
from cobs and grasses
* U.S.
ethanol production falls 32,000 bpd to 872,000 bpd * U.S. weekly
ethanol stocks rise to 18.8 mln barrels (Corrects recent high in
ethanol futures to three - year high
from record high, paragraph eight) By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 13 (Reuters)- U.S.
ethanol production fell 3.5 percent while stocks climbed in the latest reporting week, despite profitable margins at many biofuel
refineries.
Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Valero Energy Corporation is the world's largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer, supplying fuel and products with 16
refineries and 10
ethanol plants stretching
from the U.S. West and Gulf coasts to Canada, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.
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.
Capturing the nearly pure stream of CO2 emitted
from corn
ethanol refinery fermentation processes is cheaper however, and footing the bill for the added costs associated with carbon capture can be further offset by taking advantage of the market for CO2 availed by EOR.
Reaching a goal of zero net deforestation will require reducing the pressures to deforest that come
from population growth, rising affluence, the construction of
ethanol distilleries and biodiesel
refineries, and the fast - growing use of paper.
And that doesn't include
ethanol refineries that are also extracting corn oil,
from the
ethanol byproducts.
By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it
from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American
ethanol from the Corn Belt.
If total oil supply based on these numbers are compared, the United States actually produces more oil than these other countries because the United States produces far more oil
from natural gas and other liquids (e.g.
ethanol) and
refinery gain than do the other countries.
Another plus is that
ethanol produced
from second - generation feedstock has high performance and compatibility with traditional combustion engines and current energy infrastructure, including
refineries and pipelines.
At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more
ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply
from animal feedlots to
ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.
Ethanol and biodeisel will also soon be made from algae, which will be grown on (among other things) the waste products of existing corn ethanol refineries: CO2, waste heat, production power exhaust, and corn rinse ef
Ethanol and biodeisel will also soon be made
from algae, which will be grown on (among other things) the waste products of existing corn
ethanol refineries: CO2, waste heat, production power exhaust, and corn rinse ef
ethanol refineries: CO2, waste heat, production power exhaust, and corn rinse effluent.
Expand Locally - Owned Biofuel
Refineries: Less than 10 percent of new ethanol production today is from farmer - owned r
Refineries: Less than 10 percent of new
ethanol production today is
from farmer - owned
refineriesrefineries.