Sentences with phrase «global ethanol production»

Today 6.5 % of the world's grain is being used as feedstock for global ethanol production representing only one million barrels per day of the 85million barrels consumed daily.

Combined, their production accounts for 87 % of global ethanol production.

Global ethanol production tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters.

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A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

«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.

Rising domestic oil production and a global energy glut have all but nullified the pitch that ethanol would help wean the country off foreign oil.

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polarEthanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polarethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

U.S. consumption of corn to supply domestic ethanol production created a global corn frenzy which drove up prices and spurred expansion of croplands around the planet.

During the period under evaluation by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, America's Soviet - style production quota for ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, increased almost 4 billion gallons, or 104 billion pounds of maize.

And the International Monetary Fund has documented that since their peak in July 2008, oil prices declined by 69 % as of December 2008, and global food prices declined by 33 % during the same period, while U.S. corn production has remained at 12 billion bushels a month, one - third of which is still used for ethanol production.

Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.»

The US agriculture secretary, Ed Schafer, stirred controversy on the eve of the Rome summit with his defence of corn ethanol, arguing that biofuel production only contributed «2 to 3 %» to the recent dramatic rise in global food prices.

This simplistic model is not correct for the production of corn - based ethanol because fossil fuels are used in the growing of corn and the production of ethanol, and these contribute to global warming gasses.

To get the whole picture you have to consider ethanol's entire life cycle — the energy inputs and global warming pollution arising from every step in the production process, such as: