Sentences with phrase «fuel crops through»
We wrote about this incredible proposal to create carbon neutral energy, fresh water, food and fuel crops through symbiotic technologies back in 2008.
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Bio-jet fuel can be produced from various plant materials, including oil crops, sugar crops, starchy plants and lignocellulosic biomass, through various chemical and biological routes.
Like bankers do for financial debt, climate scientists assume that the greenhouse gas expense of burning biofuels will be paid back eventually as the crops that make fuel «earn» carbon through sequestering it throughout their life cycle.
Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.
«Excessive prices for oil and food» to a certain extent the result of policy restrictions on the use of hydrocarbons, the effect of extrusion from the structure of arable food crops through improved crop plants from which ethanol is produced to replace hydrocarbons as fuel.
What would be the delivered cost of fuel from a system that can sustainably deliver biofuels to the gas turbines through long periods of drought and crop failures?
Ethanol is an alcohol - based alternative fuel made through a distillation and fermentation process using plant crops, like corn.