Sentences with phrase «greater use of biofuels»

It would further allow for greater use of biofuels, which combined with carbon capture and sequestration techniques could drastically reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere and keep global temperature increases to less than two degrees Centigrade in 2100.

Not exact matches

Genuity is largely targeted at US farmers in the Central Great Plains, whose corn is mostly used for cattle and biofuel with human consumption mainly in the form of food additives like cornstarch.

The need to address uncertainties applies to other areas the analysis as well, and we urge you to evaluate the increasing use of nitrogen fertilizers and herbicides associated with greater biofuel production.

In recent work, Brian Fox and colleagues at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison characterized glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that digest cellulose and can be used to turn plants such as switch grass into biofuels.

This push for cleaner fuels is on a GHG basis just one part of a move to greater sustainability, with better land management, less water use, etc... in biofuel production and use.

For a great overview of both sides of the argument (framed around the biofuels industry), I recommend you look at two Green Inc. posts framing the debate, one today on the industry point of view that intensified agriculture can cut land use, and one from last week on the opposing view.

While biodiesel from used restaurant grease is great and would ideally be of a scale that would use all such waste, I have yet to see how biofuels will work well on a large scale as an industry in a global market.

Flawed accounting could even encourage greater expansion of biofuels that cause damaging changes in land use, as described in the September 15 EEA Scientific Committee opinion.

«Now, hemp is being used in an even greater variety of products, including health foods, organic body care, clothing, construction materials, biofuels, plastic composites and more.

John McCain — while paying lip service to greater use of wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuels — clearly and consistently believes that in the near future (certainly in the time he would be in office) greater reliance on nuclear power as well as increased offshore oil drilling is the path to increased energy independence in the United States.