Sentences with phrase «impact of ethanol»

One review of the impact of ethanol on global warming gasses found «ambiguous» indications, with some studies indicating small increases, and others indicating small decreases.

Well, that in total is bigger than the impact of ethanol, and the offshore part is about as big as the ethanol, but is it a lot?

As someone that has spent a fair amount of time looking at the GHG impacts of ethanol from a LCA perspective, I think everyone is in agreement that corn is the least beneficial, while sugarcane and cellulosic are the most promisisng.

Not exact matches

Subsidies could also impact your grocery bill in the near future: the diversion of soybeans, corn and other edibles to ethanol production leaves less farmland to feed an every - growing world population.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

Chemical engineer Inés Reyero Zaragoza proposed the substitution of methanol by ethanol for the production of biodiesel and the use of a heterogeneous catalyst, which will «result in a reduction of costs and in the environmental impact associated with the production of this biofuel.»

Selfa thought that had these communities been aware of ethanol production's impact on the local water supply, support for the plants may not have been as strong.

Specifically, the most suitable regions to grow bioenergy grasses in terms of impact on water (and ultimately ethanol production) are eastern Ohio, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and the Northern Atlantic regions.

Theresa Selfa, a professor at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, examined the socio - economic impacts of corn ethanol on small communities in Kansas and Iowa in a 2011 study.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

The integrity and safety of pipelines and storage tanks is crucial, because ethanol is both flammable and, at certain concentrations, can cause adverse environmental impacts.

Noticeable advocacy contributions include the successful joint BIO / ETA petition to EPA for Tier 1 designation of Trichoderma reesei, ETA's redirect of FDA / CVM to follow due process for establishing regulatory guidance impacting the renewable fuel ethanol industry, numerous presentations on safety & regulatory paradigms for microbial biotechnology to authorities in the US, Canada, Brazil, and China, as well as the NAS Biotechnology Committee on Future Products of Biotechnology and New Harvest.

For the purposes of this question, the impact of gasoline vs ethanol will be felt as a change in effective working pressure.

In this study, we evaluate transportation impacts and infrastructure requirements for the use of E85 (85 % ethanol, 15 % gasoline) in light - duty vehicles using a combination of corn and cellulosic ethanol.

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What do Steven Chu and John Holdren have to say about the calculus of corn - based ethanol, and its impact on biodiversity in farm country?

Today: The impacts of the Renewable Fuel Standard and federal ethanol policy.

Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Production for Ethanol in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada, Climate Change Issues, 644 - 651.

(05/01/2013) Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Also of interest is the political reason why the ethanol mandate is so hard to get rid of: Rural Republican districts benefit hugely from the market distortion and some alt - fuel fanatics in D.C, such as Obama, love to stick it to the oil companies regardless of environmental impact.

California's LCFS also would have little or no impact on GHG emissions nationwide and would harm our nation's energy security by discouraging the use of Canadian crude oil — our nation's largest source of crude — and ethanol produced in the American Midwest.

A random «Smog Check» inspection & repair «secret shopper» audit, ethanol cap and elimination of dual fuel CAFE credit can cut California car impact over 50 % in 2010.

However, more and more people have also come to see the shortcomings of corn ethanol — including its impact on land use and food supplies.

ARB's faulty analysis will have real and significant impacts on US corn ethanol producers and the ability of regulated parties to comply with the LCFS.

Intensification of Brazil's sugarcane industry in response to rising demand for sugar - based ethanol could have impacts on the regional climate reports a new study by researchers from Arizona State University,...

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.

The report warned that increasing production of liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, could increase the price of agricultural commodities with negative economic and social impacts, especially for the world's poor who spend a large proportion of income on food.

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, Februaryethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, Februaryethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, FebruaryEthanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

«The outcome of the study indicates that per unit of energy delivered to the cooking pot, the Safi ethanol stove reduces the climate impact associated with black and organic carbon by 91 % compared to the kerosene stove and by 83 % compared to the charcoal stove,» says Olivier Lefebvre, Founder of Climate Solutions Consulting.

Another of the study's conclusions also is worth underscoring: the negative environmental impacts of corn ethanol in fuels.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

Ironically, using CAFE to decrease consumption while increasing the ethanol mandate will also have a significant impact on how much bang consumers get for their buck at the pump in terms of gas mileage.

Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) has just updated its 2009 and 2011 studies of ethanol's impact on gasoline prices.

Cellulosic ethanol proponents have pushed the idea of using farm waste as a way to boost biofuel production without impacting food crops, but such conversion may carry a hidden cost in areas with insufficient rainfall or lacking irrigation, warns a soil scientist from Washington State University.

Other scientists have looked at the full range of ethanol's impacts on air, land, and water compared to gasoline and concluded that ethanol is superior.

Feel free to run that number for us but the cost per unit of energy won't have enough impact to give oil any advantage over the likes of corn ethanol.

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).

Whether or not ethanol is better than gasoline depends on the direct and indirect environmental impacts associated with the production, delivery, and ultimate use of each gallon of ethanol, including any changes in land use.

And let's not forget some of the harmful biological and environmental impacts incurred by a shift to more ethanol production: huge use of water, increased soil erosion, more fertilizer use and more herbicide / pesticide use.

Ethanol producers in particular believe that the science behind the assessment of land - use change impacts was not thoroughly reviewed enough, and that other biofuels were not adequately scrutinized for similar land - use change emissions.

Furthermore, whether the production of ethanol can be greatly expanded without causing more harmful secondary impacts is in doubt.

Far from having a substantial impact on reducing net emissions of GHG, Wolf says, European rapeseed oil - based diesel and U.S. corn - based ethanol have in fact only made small contributions - 13 % less than conventional diesel and 18 % less than petrol, respectively.

The new paper says that while practices that can reduce the environmental impacts of current and future ethanol feedstocks have been identified, there are few incentives or policies to ensure that they are employed.

Unfortunately, this doesn't stop RFA from cherry - picking data to create «facts» that support ever - increasing use of ethanol despite real data that strongly argues the ethanol mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard could negatively impact consumers and the broader economy.

I don't think we yet quite grasp the effect of $ 60 - a-barrel oil on food prices, because the capacity to distill ethanol and produce biodiesel is not yet large enough to really have an impact.