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Between 1980 and 2005, the amount of grain used to produce fuel ethanol in the United States gradually expanded from 1 million to 41 million tons.

The United States produced 16.2 billion liters of fuel ethanol in 2005, nearly surpassing Brazil to become the world's largest fuel ethanol producer.

Not exact matches

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.

Then I noticed the Sunoco fuel used by NASCAR teams is an E-15 blend... and long story short, in my effort to become more socially responsible, I have become an ethanol proponent.

We're hoping to make E-15 the standard, and in the meantime we're working with innovative retailers to offer a new choice of fuel that has a 15 % blend of ethanol.»

But fuels high in ethanol are causing problems — marine engines don't like them very much since they attract water and corrode tanks and battery jumps.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

Another quick - maturing technology, which Canadian firm Iogen is pioneering, is cellulose ethanol, a fuel made from crop and forest residues and urban wastes that could be locally produced in rural British Columbia.

«For the first time, the U.S. ethanol industry will have the opportunity to compete for a portion of Japan's fuel blending market,» Emily Skor, head of Washington - based ethanol group Growth Energy, said in a statement.

Also in the Post, Terence Corcoran wonders whether Corn Cob Bob — the friendly spokesmascot for the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association — will survive its ongoing battle with the C.D. Howe Institute, which recently released a report questioning the environmental and economic justifications for corn ethanol subsidies.

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A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

The industry has hundreds of large factories in the region, with products of tapioca starch and derivatives including sweeteners, modified starches, and, more recently, fuel ethanol.

A strategic decision was made at the time by the government to switch to ethanol production in order to fuel the Brazilian fleet.

Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

In Brazil — a country of 188 million people with the world's 14th largest economy — about 40 percent of the fuel burned in passenger vehicles is ethanol derived from sugarcanIn Brazil — a country of 188 million people with the world's 14th largest economy — about 40 percent of the fuel burned in passenger vehicles is ethanol derived from sugarcanin passenger vehicles is ethanol derived from sugarcane.

The researchers, who found that ethanol requires 29 percent more fossil energy than it provides, question the morality of using grain to fuel cars in the face of world hunger.

KERRY: The senator has proposed «a new Manhattan Project to make America independent of Middle East oil in 10 years» by increasing the use of alternative fuels like ethanol and insisting that standards for auto mileage be raised.

Right now ethanol is used mostly as a fuel additive; about one - third of the gasoline sold in the United States contains a shot of ethanol (about 10 percent, typically) to reduce automobile emissions.

All this is happening with a fundamentally American technology: The flex - fuel engine and its precursor — the Model T, which Henry Ford expected to run on ethanol — were invented in the United States.

While ethanol currently makes up less than 4 percent of the motor fuel used nationally, the corn used in ethanol production constitutes 14 percent of the domestic crop.

Brazil, on the other hand, has managed to provide 40 percent of its transportation fuel from sugarcane - derived ethanol and helped develop the flex - fuel technology that now allows drivers in the U.S. to switch between gasoline and the biofuel.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

Turning to ethanol or biodiesel doesn't help much, given that those fuels from crops mean less food: hardly in keeping with the Thanksgiving tradition.

Pruitt said he would support the U.S. renewable fuels standard, which requires biofuels like ethanol to be blended in gasoline, but said the program needed some tweaks.

«Biofuels like ethanol are the only tool readily available that can begin to address the challenge of energy security,» Bob Dinneen, president of industry group the Renewable Fuels Association said in a statement.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting tests but has yet to certify ethanol as a fuel for piston - engine planes in the U.S., says Lourdes Maurice, chief scientist and technical advisor to the FAA's Office of Environment and Energy.

A gadget built around an automotive fuel injector transforms ethanol, or grain alcohol, into hydrogen gas, a team of chemical engineers reports in this week's issue of Science.

Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.

Cellulosic ethanol — fuel derived from woody plants and waste biomass — has the potential to become an affordable, renewable transportation fuel that rivals gasoline, but lignin, one of the most ubiquitous components of the plant cell wall, gets in the way.

Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.

Shifts in the use of gasoline and ethanol to fuel vehicles in Sao Paulo created a unique atmospheric chemistry experiment

Data collection was performed from January to May 2011, and the analyses took place before, during and after a sharp fluctuation in ethanol prices — owing to macroeconomic factors such as the international price of sugar (Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane)-- leading consumers to switch motor fuels in São Paulo City.

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

«We could combat climate change, reduce harm to health and foster advances in automotive technology by offering a stimulus for auto makers to develop more economical and efficient cars fueled by ethanol.»

Race cars in the Indianapolis 500 burn mostly fuel - grade ethanol.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

In setting state rules for low - carbon fuels, California officials have calculated that corn ethanol is worse than gasoline.

Biobutanol advocates, including DuPont, say the fuel could work better in automobiles than the better - known ethanol and will be easier to transport.

Up to 40 percent of corn production in the United States now goes to ethanol fuel.

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.

Vertimass LLC, a California - based start - up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that directly converts ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend - stock for use in transportation fuels.

«The evidence is clear that the current ethanol fuel mandate is unworkable,» Pruitt said in a statement issued at the time.

Gates has invested in several renewable fuels companies, including Pacific Ethanol and Sapphire Energy; the latter intends to produce gasoline from algae.

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.

In a few areas, primarily the Midwest, a blend that is 85 percent ethanol (E85) is also sold for use in vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel engineIn a few areas, primarily the Midwest, a blend that is 85 percent ethanol (E85) is also sold for use in vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel enginein vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel engines.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

Additionally, ethylene and ethanol could serve as the building blocks for a range of consumer goods, and CO2 - derived formic acid could be used by the pharmaceutical industry or as a fuel in fuel cells.