Sentences with phrase «fuel than any other crop»

Trials are just beginning in Britain of a giant reed which may have a higher yield as a biomass fuel than any other crop.

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Presently, in current dollars, that fuel would cost airlines US$ 5.31 per gallon, which is less than bio-jet fuel produced from algae or other oil crops such as soybeans, canola or palm oil.

«We estimate that this biofuel would cost the airline industry $ 5.31 / gallon, which is less than most of the reported prices of renewable jet fuel produced from other oil crops or algae,» said Deepak Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at Illinois, who led the analysis.

Biofuels Growing mushrooms for biodiesel could require far less soil and other resources than commonly cultivated fuel crops.

One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

-LSB-...] Tallow - waste biofuel is more ethical than other alternative fuels, since it does not displace food crops such as corn... ``

In other words, cellulosic conversion technology could easily drive deforestation, especially in the tropics where converting natural systems to fuel would be easier than planting potential fuel - crops like oil palm, sugar cane, soybeans, or corn.