Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million
gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:
Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion
gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.
Not exact matches
Finally, the
ethanol — 2.7
gallons from a bushel
of corn — is cooled
into a liquid and denatured with gasoline.
7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060
gallons of embalming fluid — formaldehyde, methanol, and
ethanol —
into the soil each year.
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.
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.
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.
Water use for Alberta oil extraction is a tiny fraction
of what's needed to grow corn and convert it
into ethanol that gets a third less mileage per
gallon than gasoline.
The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion
gallons of corn
ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban
ethanol fuel content over ten percent.
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.
The standard mandates that oil refiners blend 13.2 billion
gallons of corn - based
ethanol into gasoline this year.
The reason is
ethanol, which the federal government insists be blended
into every
gallon of motor fuel refined and sold in the United States.
Pursuant to that law, an increasing amount
of renewable fuel such as
ethanol — rising to 36 billion
gallons in 2022 — must be introduced
into the market.
Moreover, energy from oil and gas drilling is much less harmful to the environment — especially given the high usage
of water, the unbearable flow
of life - killing nutrients
into the Gulf
of Mexico, and
of course the negative impacts on gasoline and diesel engines from the added
ethanol (and the lower miles per
gallon it delivers).
Between 1997 and 2007 US farmland declined by ~ 33 million acres [1]: if that land were put back
into corn production, it could produce 14 billion
gallons of biofuel
ethanol [2] plus the additional food value
of the DDGS.
BlueFire brags that using its Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology, it will be able to convert cellulosic waste
into 3.2 million
gallons of ethanol per year.
Now, on the site
of an old cabbage farm 9 miles from Medina, New York Energy is building an 87 million dollar
ethanol plant to turn 20 million bushels
of corn
into 50 million
gallons of fuel.
Support Next Generation Biofuels Deploy Cellulosic
Ethanol: Obama will invest federal resources, including tax incentives, cash prizes and government contracts into developing the most promising technologies with the goal of getting the first two billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol into the system b
Ethanol: Obama will invest federal resources, including tax incentives, cash prizes and government contracts
into developing the most promising technologies with the goal
of getting the first two billion
gallons of cellulosic
ethanol into the system b
ethanol into the system by 2013.