Per your argument, you would have replaced 10 % of your pool - 1
gallon of ethanol in 10 gallons of product.
The RFS calls for more than 30 billion
gallons of ethanol in 10 years, half of that coming from cellulose.
The corn crop in the US will help to supply the required 18 billion
gallons of ethanol in 2016, which will add to the strain of devoting more environmental resources to produce corn.
As a result, we exported 1.2 billion
gallons of ethanol in 2011.
Argonne Nat» l Labs did an analysis and found the use of 6.5 billion
gallons of ethanol in the US in 2007 reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 10 million tons and that E85 alone contributes to a 20 % reduction in ozone forming pollution and a 30 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Not exact matches
Later this year the company is scheduled to finish a $ 200 million - plus facility
in Nevada, Iowa, that will produce 30 million
gallons of cellulosic
ethanol using corn residue from nearby farms.
The plant opened for business
in November 1994, with the capacity to make 15 million
gallons of ethanol a year.
Using Patzek's methodology for every aspect
of ethanol production save the conversion process itself, a
gallon of Corn Plus
ethanol consumes less energy than it contains — even before factoring
in credit for coproducts.
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.
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.
7 So much for recycling: Burials
in America deposit 827,060
gallons of embalming fluid — formaldehyde, methanol, and
ethanol — into the soil each year.
Congress
in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion
gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.
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.
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.
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.
The researchers conducted more than 60 experiments
in which about 3.5 ounces
of saline or
ethanol solutions representing the planetary projectile that hit Earth was dropped into a rectangular tank holding about six
gallons of fluid representing the early Earth.
Nine billion
gallons of corn
ethanol were produced
in the United States
in 2008, twice as much as
in 2006.
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.
«The amount
of ethanol produced by chemical catalysis is around 70 or 80
gallons perton,» says Wes Bolsen, chief marketing officer for Coskata, located
in Warrenville, Illinois.
Troubles With
Ethanol The U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act
of 2007 [pdf] set a target to produce 9 billion
gallons of biofuel
in 2008.
«
In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commerciall
In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion
gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO
of Range Fuels, based
in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commerciall
in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation
ethanol commercially.
In November researchers at the University
of Texas at Austin found that producing corn
ethanol consumes 28
gallons of water per mile traveled, whereas conventional petroleum uses 0.15
gallon.
One example isPanda
Ethanol, which is building the largest biomass plant
in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will use the waste
of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production
of approximately 115 million
gallons ofethanol per year.
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.
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).
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.
In addition to what they say,
ethanol carries only a fraction
of the btu's per
gallon than gasoline.
Each plant produced 5,000 to 7,000
gallons of ethanol per day from wood waste, and both were
in production for several years (Sherrard 1945).
Among other things, Mr. King claimed that a 2008 reduction
of $ 0.06 per
gallon in the now - expired
ethanol blenders credit brought the expansion
of the corn
ethanol industry to a standstill.
It is important to note that more advanced biofuels still receive tax support: cellulosic
ethanol receives $ 1.01 per
gallon in tax credits, but that is set to expire at the end
of this year.
In 2011, the world produced 23 billion
gallons of fuel
ethanol and nearly 6 billion
gallons of biodiesel.
Western Biomass Energy LLC, a subsidiary
of Blue Sugars Corporation (previously KL Energy) reported the major milestone
of claiming the first cellulosic
ethanol tax credits under the RFS2 for a 20,069
gallon batch
of cellulosic
ethanol produced from bagasse (sugar cane waste)
in April 2012.
Even though not a
gallon of cellulosic
ethanol has been manufactured
in the U.S., the EPA has continued to predict fantastical production volumes: approximately 5 million
gallons in 2010, 6.6 million
in 2011, 8.7 million
in 2012 and a whopping 14 million
gallons for 2013.
In 2007 the world produced 13.1 billion
gallons of fuel
ethanol and 2.3 billion
gallons of biodiesel.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that only 20,000
gallons of ethanol was produced from non-food, «cellulosic» sources
in 2012.
The Iowa State study estimates that extending the VEETC would induce additional blending
of 680 million
gallons of ethanol, costing taxpayers almost $ 7.00 per extra
gallon in 2011.
Wes Bolsen, CMO and head
of government affairs at Coskata, discussed a recent Sandia National Labs and General Motors study demonstrating that 90 billion
gallons of feedstock - flexible
ethanol is possible
in the U.S. without a significant change
in current land use.
This would open the market to
ethanol that could be produced from the «420 million tons
of biomass easily harvestable
in the U.S.» Sharp also said that the
ethanol generated from that biomass could replace at least half — about 45 billion
gallons —
of the oil the U.S. imports annually.
The renewable fuel standard passed by Congress calls for 100 million
gallons of cellulosic
ethanol in 2010, but the actual production capacity from experimental plants is only about 3 to 4 million
gallons, he said.
In the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, Congress said that
of the 36 billion
gallons of biofuel it wants produced by 2022, 15 billion
gallons must come from corn - based
ethanol and at least 16 billion
gallons from cellulosic biofuels.
Such biomass, or cellulosic,
ethanol is now likely to see commercial production begin first
in a facility
of the Canadian company, Iogen, with backing from Shell Oil, at a cost
of around $ 1.30 /
gallon.
First, we're Big
Ethanol's biggest customers, buying billions
of gallons a year, as a useful additive
in E10 gasoline.
The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available
in the region as feedstock for the
ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million
gallons of ethanol per year.
In 2006 the US produced 4.855 billion
gallons of ethanol.
Two years later, VeraSun (VSE), the
ethanol producer that had been planning to build a 110 - million -
gallon - per - year
ethanol biorefinery
in Reynolds, says it will suspend construction
of the refinery due to current market conditions.
As gasoline prices
in the United States quickly climbed to $ 3 a
gallon, the conversion
of a $ 2 bushel
of corn, which can be distilled into 2.8
gallons of ethanol, became highly profitable.
In 1980, the world produced scarcely 1 billion
gallons of fuel
ethanol.
In 2009 the world was on track to produce 19 billion
gallons of fuel
ethanol and nearly 4 billion
gallons of biodiesel.
That's about 15 %
of the energy
in a
gallon of ethanol.
Instead
of meeting the goals to produce 100 million
gallons of cellulosic
ethanol in the United States by 2010, the survey indicated that only 28.5 million
gallons will be available
in 2010.