Sentences with phrase «generation of ethanol»

The next generation of ethanol, however, contains both carbon neutral and carbon negative production paths.

The expo will draw more than 40 college teams from all over the country to showcase the future of sustainable technology and will feature exhibits like generation of ethanol from coffee production wastewater and entrenching small glass spheres in house paint to deflect heat in the summer.

Not exact matches

It's one of the nation's leading producers of corn and ethanol but has yet to begin any utility - scale biomass electricity generation.

Further development of our current study would significantly contribute to the production of not only second - generation but also third - generation biofuel ethanol.

The first - generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about a possible future shortage of food.

To date, no study has shown a transgenerational effect of prenatal ethanol exposure on ethanol consumption in the second or third generation.

But the problem is that most of the ethanol we have right now is when it is talked about it being a first generation biofuel; that is that ethanol fuel is coming from the fermentation of sugars from crops like corn.

At the same time, the steep price of gasoline — and corn — means that next - generation ethanol can be profitable even if its price doesn't reach what Khosla Ventures» Kaul calls the «holy grail» of $ 1 a gallon.

«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 commercially.

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

Next - generation biofuels could, unlike corn ethanol, completely replace petroleum - based fuels in the gas tanks of existing cars, trucks, and planes.

The convertible features the same powertrain as the earlier concept — a 1.4 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder engine running on E85 ethanol is mated to a version of GM's next - generation hybrid system.

Analysis by Kansas State grain scientists found that next generation DDGs (left - overs from the production of ethanol that includes residues of yeast) contain 50.8 percent crude protein, compared with 47.8 percent in soybean meal or 67.1 percent in corn gluten meal.

This should provide an incentive for shifting to a new generation of fuels like cellulosic ethanol that will reduce concerns about food prices and the environment.

«Since 2000, global wind energy generation has more than tripled; solar cell production has risen six-fold; production of fuel ethanol from crops have more than doubled; and biodiesel production has expanded nearly four-fold.

For years we've been promised the next generation of biofuels, made from waste cellulose, but we have yet to see it replace corn ethanol.

Both electricity generation and the production of corn used for beef and ethanol production are methods of mining the aquifer's water to make money in the near term.

For the last generation, ethanol has been America's fuel of the future.

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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.

The list is long and worth many billions (sorry for caps); — GREENHOUSE GAS ABATEMENT PROGM (Carbon capture)-- NON-RECOVERY OF PUBLIC AGENCY COSTS — PETROLEUM EXPLORATION TAX CONCESSIONS — RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE — DIRECT SUBSIDIES TO FOSSIL FUEL PROJECTS — DIESEL FUEL REBATE SCHEME — EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE FOR ALTERNATIVE FUELS Ethanol production which is an energy sink)-- CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR FUEL OIL, — HEATING OIL AND KEROSENE — CONCESSIONAL RATE OF EXCISE FOR AVIATION FUEL — EXCISE FREE STATUS FOR CONDENSATE — SUBSIDISED SUPPLY OF COAL - FIRED ELECTRICITY TO — ALUMINIUM SMELTERS — STATE ENERGY SUPPLY CONCESSIONS — ELECTRICITY PRICING STRUCTURES — SUBSIDIES FOR CENTRALISED GENERATION

So, more attention and resources are going into the producing of ethanol and other biofuel types from second - generation feedstocks, sometimes known as non-food crops.

Investments in these next - generation ethanol pathways are being made across the United States, and are creating jobs through the construction of commercial - scale production facilities.

Reasonable questions are being raised regarding the sustainability of corn - based ethanol, and even 2nd generation industrial plantation based biofuel and biochar production; given finite land, fertilizers and water, and in the face of exponential increases in population and demand for energy.

With the reputation of first generation biofuels like corn ethanol darkly tarnished, the move is on to develop second - generation biofuels that

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)

The report goes on to suggest, like our commenter, that there is a slight reduction in greenhouse gas generation from ethanol, but that the other environmental effects of intense corn farming outweigh the gain.

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