Sentences with phrase «industries as biofuels»

Ward works to produce a wide range of enzyme and protein products for such diverse industries as biofuels, food and textiles.

Not exact matches

Several Democratic senators pressed billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Monday to clarify his role as an adviser to President Donald Trump, saying his position in the administration raised «alarming» questions about potential conflicts of interest with his stakes in the biofuels and pharmaceutical industries.

The biofuel industry and administration officials immediately criticized the research as flawed.

GEX holds a wide spectrum of companies that earn at least 1/2 their revenues from the broader renewable energy industry, which includes solar, wind, biofuel and geothermal players, as well as companies focused on energy efficiency.

ICLN holds a portfolio of «clean energy» companies, which it defines as those involved in the biofuels, ethanol, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind industries.

Increasingly, it is used in the commercial food industry due to its high content of saturated fat, and it has even been tested as a potential biofuel.

The food industry, for example, may end up fighting the biofuel industry for access to arable land as the world runs short of water, warns Peter Brabeck, Nestlé's chairman and chief executive.

Corn growers and their allies have pressed to have as much biofuel as possible blended into fuels but the oil industry has complained that the program drives up its costs and should be repealed.

Though often illegal, the forests are cut down both for a booming pulp and paper industry as well as to clear land for oil palm plantations, which supply diverse industries from biofuel to soap to cosmetics.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

The 2015 Survey of Non-Starch Ethanol and Renewable Hydrocarbon Biofuels Producers provides an inventory of the domestic advanced biofuels production industry as of the end of calendar year 2015, documenting important... Read more →

Being able to analyze samples in such conditions enables a whole new range of studies, such as characterizing materials for carbon sequestration, developing solid catalysts and their action to produce biofuels, optimizing food industry processes, and studying how a disease progresses using intact biological tissues.

This has left biofuel — a low - carbon alternative usually made of leftover agricultural residue — as the industry's most realistic option.

Last month Boeing, the Natural Resources Defense Council and others in the airline industry announced the creation of a group to study the prospects for biofuel jets, citing the oil - price volatility that has rocked the aviation industry, as well as efforts to cut carbon.

OriginOil is seen as a leader in the algae biofuel industry, and had success last year in an algae pilot project with MBD Energy of Australia.

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.

Fortunately for the corn industry, «advanced» biofuels have failed to take off as Congress expected.

Indirect land use change is unfolding as a scandal, possibly even premeditated by CARB and the EPA to restrict biofuels and protect the petroleum industry.

The fact is, Congressional mandates have failed to produce cellulosic biofuel and expand the domestic biofuels industry as envisioned, and our new energy realities have made the RFS obsolete.

Clearly, the domestic cellulosic biofuel industry has struggled and indeed could be seen as losing ground.

Congressional mandates have failed to produce cellulosic biofuel and expand the domestic biofuels industry as envisioned, and our new energy realities have made the RFS obsolete

The ethanol industry would also benefit, with $ 2.5 billion in new research money to create more efficient biofuels as well as loan guarantees for building new ethanol pipelines and tax breaks for biofuel, electric and hydrogen refueling stations.

Unfortunately the advanced biofuels industry not been able to meet the demand as set out in the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Taking action to produce cleaner operations and cleaner products takes money — and industry is spending it to invent substitute and less carbon - intensive fuels, by supporting technologies such as wind, solar, biofuels, geothermal and others, and by improving efficiency and pursuing technologies such as carbon capture and storage and advanced technology vehicles.

- As in the fossil fuel industry, biofuels are highly subsidized.

The palm oil industry has been lobbying Europe to allow palm oil - based biofuels to qualify as a low carbon fuel.

Bioenergy can, for instance, be derived from solid woodfuels, such as fuelwood and charcoal or from liquid biofuels, such as black liquor (a by - product from the paper industry) and ethanol obtained from wood.

In 2007, Amy won the Folio Eddie for excellence in magazine editorial for her feature on algae as a feedstock for biofuel, which was published in Sustainable Industries magazine.

From sugarcane plantations in Brazil to Indonesia's palm plantations, the reality is that biofuel industry, without strict regulation, can be as catastrophic as the fossil fuel industry is in Africa.

By then, electricity from solar will be much more competitive against electricity from conventional sources, and biofuel will be a non-negligible fraction of the fuel used by the international airline industry (maybe), Iowa and Texas will have perhaps 3 times as many wind turbines as now — who knows, maybe there will be new watershed control projects completed or under construction in Thailand, the Mekong River, Queensland and upper.

Apart from their role as captive consumers, the refiners are in no position to ensure, or even contribute to, growth in the cellulosic biofuel industry.

The debate is particularly pitched as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to introduce new rules relating to the biofuels industry this fall.

Economic Benefits The development of an advanced biofuel industry will help rebuild the local and regional economies devastated as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita by providing: (1) increased value to the feedstock crops which will benefit local farmers and provide more revenue to the local community; (2) increased investments in plants and equipment which will stimulate the local economy by providing construction jobs initially and the chance for full - time employment after the plant is completed; (3) secondary employment as associated industries develop due to plant co-products becoming available at a competitive price; and (4) increased local and state revenues collected from plant operations will stimulate local and state tax revenues and provide funds for improvements to the community and to the region.

Obama noted that there has been progress in the transportation sector, including the increased use of vehicles that are powered by biofuels and natural gas, as well as the auto industry's more efficient production methods involving traditional engines.

«It would be highly precipitous... for the United Nations or other international bodies to single out biofuels as the major cause for escalating food prices and take actions that might lead to even higher food prices,» the industry group argued.

Re 154: Biopact appears to be a website run by industry (Equator Energies, a biofuel consultancy company), which poses as a citizens» group (see: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuelwatch/message/267).

We were the first commercial airline to test a biofuel flight and we continue to lead the airline industry as the pioneer of sustainable aviation.

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.