Sentences with phrase «go as biofuel»

In meeting the challenge of achieving the 20 - year deadline, there is a long way to go as biofuel is yet to be produced on an industrial scale.

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These are also known as biofuels, i.e. plants that would otherwise potentially go to feed people (or grown on land that would otherwise grow food) going into gas tanks instead.

This relates to the whole area of development for people talking about biofuels, which is this idea of trying to develop replacements for the conventional sorts of fossil fuels that we have to at least — if we are going to be burning some sort of hydrocarbons of some kind — to try to get them [so] that they are being derived from a different source, and potentially or ideally, ones that would actually burn without delivering as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere too; that's great if you can get that.

Add to that the looming specter of growing crops for biofuel, which reduce available land for food, feed and fiber production, he said: «Biofuel is going to be an unmitigated disaster, that's as true in an African village as it is in Iowa.biofuel, which reduce available land for food, feed and fiber production, he said: «Biofuel is going to be an unmitigated disaster, that's as true in an African village as it is in Iowa.Biofuel is going to be an unmitigated disaster, that's as true in an African village as it is in Iowa.»

«If we're going to rely on biofuels as a significant part of a diverse portfolio of renewable technology,» then harvesting trees is the best way to go, he said.

We also need to listen to authors such as Heather Rogers, who has undertaken a devastating critique of «ethical consumerism» and today's much - touted «green» solutions — carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes — in her book, Green Gone Wrong.

These fuels should be seen as part of an expanded renewable energy portfolio that emphasizes greater fuel efficiency and reduced demand as well as the development of new sustainable energy technologies that may one day go beyond biofuels.

If we're going to sequester anything, it seems to me that it should be CO2 from responsibly produced (low greenhouse emissions and high EROEI) biofuel, which would in effect allow us to remove CO2 from the atmosphere as we used it.

Karen Street wrote: «If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar)...»

If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar), and processes that experts agree on (increasing the cost of GHG emissions, funding more R&D, mandates sometimes).

Though they're not the first group to have a go at using seaweed as a feedstock for biofuels, they may be one of the largest.

It's time to realise this AGW scam has already cost a lot of lives with food shortages caused by the swing to biofuels (amongst many things), and it's time to realise a whole lot more people are going to die as a consequence of what has already happened.

Mr. Perry went on to support a $ 5,000 incentive in parts of the state toward the purchase of plug - in hybrids, as well as an «all of the above approach to energy» that would include solar, wind and biofuels as well as nuclear power and «traditional» Texas sources.

Since going into operation in 2009, ARPA - E, as it is known, has provided about $ 1.3 billion in funding to more than 475 projects involving grid - scale batteries, power storage, biofuel production, wind turbines and other technology, according to a May report on the agency.

In the absence of a clear and coherent government policy for incorporating plug - ins (and biofuel) into America's transportation system, there could be more frequent oil price gyrations as traders face the new uncertainty of trying to predict how much gasoline Americans are going to consume in their cars and trucks versus how much electricity and how much cellulose and grains.

About two - thirds of the $ 24 billion Washington spent on energy subsidies in 2011 went to support energy efficiency and renewable sources such as wind, solar and biofuels.

As technology after technology — biofuel, hydrogen, wind, solar — was wheeled out and presented, it was patently clear that they knew and we knew and they knew we knew that none of it was going to be a viable competitor to fossil without massive subsidies, and even then it wasn't really competitive.

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.

I, for one, have always been against turning food crops into biofuel right from the get - go, tho I've always thought ag wastes make good candidates, such as manure, which otherwise pollutes localities near industrial livestock farms.

According to the Daily Climate, the California regulators are prepared to go as far as to declare that biofuels can not help the state fight climate change — could this be the beginning of the end for ethanol?The Corn Ethanol Question The ethanol industry is obviously worried about the move, and is opposing it — they say cutting off investments in the technology now would prevent them from reaching their fuel efficiency goals.