Sentences with phrase «fuel ethanol industry»

Badal Saha, lead scientist at the fermentation biotechnology research unit of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), began his talk with a status report on the fuel ethanol industry.

Noticeable advocacy contributions include the successful joint BIO / ETA petition to EPA for Tier 1 designation of Trichoderma reesei, ETA's redirect of FDA / CVM to follow due process for establishing regulatory guidance impacting the renewable fuel ethanol industry, numerous presentations on safety & regulatory paradigms for microbial biotechnology to authorities in the US, Canada, Brazil, and China, as well as the NAS Biotechnology Committee on Future Products of Biotechnology and New Harvest.

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«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.

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.

The Brazilian car manufacturing industry developed flexible - fuel vehicles that can run on any proportion of gasoline (E20 - E25 blend) and hydrous ethanol (E100).

From the start, the ethanol industry has been dogged by concerns about its net energy balance — whether ethanol requires more fossil fuel to make than it replaces.

«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.

The oil industry argues that it is impractical to add more ethanol to the U.S. fuel mix.

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.

The conversion and commercialization of cellulose inputs into fuel ethanol is a significant technology obstacle to the growth of the ethanol industry as a mainstream fuel.

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.

«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.

The biofuel industry is built around the idea that turning plants into ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Many of the 28 vehicles GM will bring to the annual convention of the automotive aftermarket performance and appearance industry either run on alternative fuels, such as E85 ethanol, or feature fuel - efficient performance without compromise.

When energy consumers, like Japan's gov» t, decide that it's better to spend a bit more money on limitless and safe ethanol, solar, wind, water, or geothermal power than on limited and dangerous fossil fuels, then the energy industry will change because it must.

The report claims that the corn ethanol refinery industry will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental -LSB-...]

American Petroleum Institute, National Mining Association, Edison Electric Institute (utilities), American Natural Gas Alliance, National Propane Gas Association, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (utilities), Growth Energy (ethanol lobby), National Biodiesel Board, and the good guys at American Wind Energy Association and Solar Energy Industries Association.

The U.S. ethanol industry is facing the most intense pressure to reform since the 2005 Renewable Fuel Standard was implemented.

Extensive testing by the automotive and oil industries shows higher ethanol blends may result in damaged engines and fuel systems for owners of the overwhelming majority of cars.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

You can run them, in dual fuel mode, on ethanol, but how much interest has the ethanol industry shown in doing that?

Ethanol and biodiesel have become an increasingly common source of transportation fuel and industry has expanded its use of biomass for onsite heat and power generation.

This is the reason the outdoor power equipment, boating, UTV, snowmobile, auto, and motorcycle industries, as well as the American Automobile Association (AAA) and the Coast Guard, oppose this higher ethanol fuel.

Ending the Energy Stalemate: historic report by bipartisan experts from industry, government, labor, academia, and environmental and consumer groups breaks ground in endorsing plug - in hybrids: grid of options points to PHEVs fueled by cellulosic ethanol or bio-diesel as an optimal solution: see extraordinarily clear Summary Matrix outlining options (view or download 78KB PDF from CalCars) or read pages 70 - 78 in entire report (2.3 MB PDF from NCEP).

Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), Homegrown for the Homeland: Ethanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber WaveEthanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Waveethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber WaveEthanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Waves, vol.

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

This summer, expensive and rare corn has left 26 ethanol plants idle — some for more than a year — removing 1.5 billion gallons of production, according to the industry trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association.

If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.

note 1; wholesale electricity price from DOE, Wholesale Market Data, electronic database at www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity, updated 22 April 2009; Renewable Fuels Association, Homegrown for the Homeland: Ethanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber WaveEthanol Industry Outlook 2005 (Washington, DC: 2005); corn per acre and ethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Waveethanol per bushel approximated from Allen Baker et al., «Ethanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber WaveEthanol Reshapes the Corn Market,» Amber Waves, vol.

As to other Alternate Fuels... even in Brasil, the Sugar Ethanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sEthanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas station.

NERA set up its study that way for good reasons: Despite abundant evidence that RFS mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use in the nation's fuel supply are detached from reality, and although it's pretty clear EPA has mismanaged the RFS to the detriment of those obligated to meet its mandates — the ethanol industry insists that the program continue as statutorily set out in 2007.

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/energy/biofuels/energy-briefs/history-of-ethanol-production-and-policy «Today's ethanol industry began in the 1970s when petroleum - based fuel became expensive and environmental concerns involving leaded gasoline created a need for an octane.

America's ethanol policy has seriously compromised the chicken industry, so we can expect Lincoln to take a more conservative approach with fuels made out of food.

Every day without those cleaner - burning fuels, the ethanol industry stays reliant on corn and the environmental effects mount.

... Oil industry proponents have said that the escalating requirements of ethanol to be added would force them to sell fuel blends exceeding 10 percent or export gasoline, a phenomenon known as «hitting the blend wall.»

Of course we should zero out tax breaks, lease loopholes and other giveaways to the fossil fuel industry, along with the bloated and unsupportable ethanol mandate.

The study argues that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumFuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumfuel consumers.

The study also recommends that the RFS schedule «be revised to reflect the ethanol industry's inability to produce commercially viable cellulosic fuels.»

He urged ethanol advocates to fight back against opposition to the fuel quota, calling it «a concerted, well - financed, organized and strategically thought - out campaign against this industry.»

Support for the ethanol industry, which blossomed because of a system of tax breaks followed by the fuel mandate, has long been bipartisan, and the current debate is split more along regional than partisan lines.

via: Chinaview.cn Ethanol Ethanol: How the Fuel is Produced, Growing Corn and Other Feedstocks, and More Ethanol Industry Still Dodging Blame for Role in Global Food Crisis Biofuels Not Enough to Offset Damage Caused by Deforestation

According to the Daily Climate, the California regulators are prepared to go as far as to declare that biofuels can not help the state fight climate change — could this be the beginning of the end for ethanol?The Corn Ethanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiencyethanol?The Corn Ethanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiencyEthanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiencyethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiency goals.

With EPA last week proposing ethanol - use requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher - ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.