Sentences with phrase «gallon of ethanol»

Per your argument, you would have replaced 10 % of your pool - 1 gallon of ethanol in 10 gallons of product.

The process is able to yield more than 100 gallons of ethanol per ton of dry biomass.

If we could find an effective way to convert it, corn residue could provide another 20 billion gallons of ethanol by around 2040, according to a recent report from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Note first that even in the absence of government support, billions of gallons of ethanol would be sold each year anyway as an octane booster.

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

As a result, today's technology can coax only about 65 gallons of ethanol out of every ton of corn stover, instead of the 90 NREL is counting on.

We needed just a few gallons of ethanol to make it to the finish, and Johnny just pipped Olivier coming out of the pit lane.

However, subsidies doled out per gallon of ethanol expired at the end of 2011.

This same quarter - acre would produce 40 bushels of corn that in turn could produce 120 gallons of ethanol worth $ 300.

The United States is using 40 million acres of cropland (Iowa plus New Jersey) and 45 % of its corn crop to produce 14 billion gallons of ethanol annually.

The RFS calls for more than 30 billion gallons of ethanol in 10 years, half of that coming from cellulose.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the use of 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol by 2012, and the industry is ahead of the target.

Transporting a gallon of ethanol by train from the Midwest costs at least 12 cents, and the shipments are vulnerable to delays on the tracks.

The plant opened for business in November 1994, with the capacity to make 15 million gallons of ethanol a year.

The biotech companies claim a 30-fold reduction since 2000, from about $ 5.60 per gallon of ethanol to at most 18 cents; NREL puts the cost at 32 cents.

Last year about 1.6 billion bushels of corn were fermented in the United States to produce 4 billion gallons of ethanol, double the amount for 2001.

The goal, however, is $ 1.07 — what NREL and the Energy Department figured was the cost to make a gallon of ethanol from corn kernels at the time NREL made the enzyme pact.

This wrong - headed policy, pushed by an aggressive farm lobby, gives a 51 - cent tax credit for each gallon of ethanol blended into gasoline.

Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.

Of course, Congress envisioned that 16 billion gallons of that ethanol would be from corn stover and other cellulosic material.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

«We produce 70 gallons of ethanol per ton of waste,» says engineer Arnold Klann, BlueFire's president and CEO.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

This plant, which Schnoor acknowledged was older and less efficient than newer plants, produces 50 million gallons of ethanol every year by processing 100,000 acres of corn.

The report added that «a biorefinery that produces 100 million gallons of ethanol per year, for example, would use the equivalent of the water supply for a town of about 5,000 people.»

Biorefineries produce about 15 billion gallons of ethanol a year.

Enzymes cost about 50 cents per gallon of ethanol, so recycling or using fewer enzymes would make biofuels more inexpensive.

That same quarter acre would produce 40 bushels of corn — 100 gallons of ethanol, worth maybe $ 300.

According to Richard Bain, a researcher at NREL, the estimated cost of producing a gallon of ethanol stands at $ 2.10 today.

However, more than 10 billion gallons of ethanol will be transported and blended in 2009, and the earlier limitations in ethanol distribution and blending are no longer the major factor in the growth of the industry.

According to a study published by Cornell University scientist David Pimentel, 21 pounds of corn are needed to produce just one gallon of ethanol.

They contain more energy per volume; a car driving on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a car on a gallon of gasoline; on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.

«A large percentage of the cost of a gallon of ethanol goes toward making enzymes — which are proteins — to degrade the starch and cellulose for fermentation,» Tyo said.

EPA recently revised its cellulosic target for 2013 from a proposed 14 million gallons of ethanol - equivalent to a final requirement of 6 million gallons (Greenwire, Aug. 6).

An Alcohol Engine can deliver about 40 % efficiency — 40 % of the BTU's in a gallon of ethanol powering an Alcohol Engine will produce mechanical energy that turns the wheels of the car.

It takes something like seven percent more energy to create a gallon of ethanol than that gallon even contains.

Doug Fehan: «The performance level of E85 compared to gasoline, when we look at a gallon - to - gallon comparison, there is about 20 percent less energy in a gallon of ethanol than in a gallon of gasoline.

A gallon of ethanol has a lower energy content than a gallon of gasoline (as measured by BTU content).

It takes 3/4 of a gallon of gasoline to make one gallon of ethanol (corn).

These tariffs add an additional $ 0.54 to each gallon of ethanol.

It is one thing to make people aware of things, like the difference in buying fair trade coffee or in how much an SUV hurts the environment or what the gallon of ethanol dubyra is pushing is costing many poor people (and the rest of us) to try and prop up the oil economy, and another to try and proclaim that people are the root cause of all the misery in the world, which is complete crap (things like bad governments and overpopulation don't exactly help).

It takes about 2 gallons of gas to make a gallon of ethanol, which gets 20 % less mileage and about 4 gallons of gas to make a gallon of hydrogen with our current power generating infrastructure.

for example, someone from the ethanol lobby had a letter in the times pointing to some 300 000 000 (million) gallons of ethanol for road fuel produced i a recent year.

I believe the mandate from the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is to use 35 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022.