Sentences with phrase «into ethanol production»

In the United States, the sugar - cane industry has had little incentive to diversify into ethanol production because import quotas support U.S. sugar prices far above world levels.

This reflects the reality that approximately 40 percent of the corn crop now goes into ethanol production, a dramatic rise since the first ethanol mandates were put in place in 2005.

Really, Rufus, those are the talking points the ethanol lobby has been using lately to deflect attention away from the amount of corn going into ethanol production.

The fossil fuel inputs into ethanol production are also largely non-liquid (natural gas and coal).

Contrast that to the government pouring billions into ethanol production because of warming hysteria.

Corn - based ethanol doesn't meet that test and won't benefit from the new standard, CARB says, because diverting corn into ethanol production increases deforestation and the clearing of grasslands.

Not exact matches

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

By 2001 every BTU consumed in ethanol production generated 67 percent more energy, when coproducts like distillers» grains are taken into account.

(Worse, use of ethanol instead of gasoline does little to reduce net carbon emissions once the energy - intensive full cycle of ethanol production — including the energy - intensive fertilizer and transport needs — is taken into account.)

A key issue is the conversion of existing corn ethanol and sugarcane ethanol facilities into integrated cellulose / starch / sugar production facilities.

The prevailing approach to biofuels production is to convert plant sugars from traditional food crops into ethanol using centuries - old fermentation practices.

Worldwide, policies that promote ethanol production encourage the conversion of grasslands and rainforests into farmland.

As you drink and force your body to metabolize alcohol, you're converting ethanol into acetaldehyde and acetate in your liver, and this causes increased production of tiny blood vessel constrictors called thromboxanes.

The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

What people fail to realize is that Brazil's economic and energy boom is not being fueled by ethanol alone, but by vast oil deposits they are aggresivly extracting (the reason one George Soros invested 900 million in Petrobas, isn't it nice that he gives money to people who wish to restrict american production but pours hundreds of millions into foreign oil companies.).

Whatever you grow that you don't use for food can then be fed into biofuel production (as well as biochar production, as a soil amendment, meaning NEGATIVE emissions), and then you have some amount of ethanol, biodiesel, or bio-based hydrocarbon product.

The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)

This extra water use stems from the irrigation of crops like corn that are turned into ethanol, or in the production of the electricity for recharging hybrids.

Q Microbe ™ converts a wide array of cellulosic biomass directly into ethanol in a single step, consolidating enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation, largely eliminating costly enzymes and associated pretreatment, and simplifying the entire production process.

Researchers there are engineering a microbe that combines the last two stages of ethanol production: converting cellulose into sugar, and turning sugar into ethanol.

«The biofuels researcher Timothy Searchinger has calculated that once the massive release of greenhouse gases cause by converting grassland and rainforest into cropland is taken into account, introduction of biofuels produces increases in greenhouse emissions, the size of the rise being as much as a doubling for corn ethanol production,» Montford tells us.

Bloomberg Businessweek explains more clearly than EPA does why the agency had to back - peddle so furiously: «The Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring less cellulosic ethanol to be blended into gasoline next year than sought under U.S. law because production of the alternative fuel hasn't reached commercial scale.»

By - products of ethanol production include distiller's grain, which is used as a very low cost cattle feed, and also corn oil can be extracted, which can be converted into biodiesel.

The proposed action would not affect corn or other ethanol production and blending requirements, despite growing problems with incorporating more ethanol into gasoline.

Corn became the predominant feedstock for ethanol production because of its abundance and ease of transformation into alcohol.

So some of the cellulose ethanol plants actually built and functional can't afford to go into production.

Ethanol's use as an oxygenate to control carbon monoxide emissions, encouraged increased production of the fuel through the decade and into the 1990s.»

Practically all the corn diverted for ethanol production could instead go into food production.

Wayne Hoovestol, Chief Executive Officer said: «Algae is potentially a by - product of ethanol that makes the process cleaner and greener through carbon sequestration... Algae production fits into Green Plains» business model since we are already in the business of marketing biofuel and feed products.»

A trial at the Archer Daniel Midlands Company biofuel facility is currently removing 1 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere annually by pumping CO2 from the production of corn - based ethanol into rocks 7000 feet below.

While industrial production of ethanol may not be the savior as it was once heralded, home distillers are willing to tap into a more parochial form of energy independence.

In recent years, the production of ethanol — a proven vehicle fuel — from cellulosic biomass, such as cereal straw or wood, has moved into the commercial demonstration phase.

Between 1997 and 2007 US farmland declined by ~ 33 million acres [1]: if that land were put back into corn production, it could produce 14 billion gallons of biofuel ethanol [2] plus the additional food value of the DDGS.

Commodities in general were in a bull market until recently, but there are a lot of energy inputs that go into corn production (and hence ethanol production).

Which brings me to another advantage — domestic production of ethanol resulted in over 220 million FEWER barrels of oil imported into this country, saving over $ 16 billion going to foreign countries.

This has resulted in more land and resources being diverted from feed / food crops into ethanol crop production, essentially lowering the availability of all other feed / food crops.

For years, it's been steadily depleting leaving some to wonder about the sustainability of tapping into it for increased corn irrigation and ethanol production.»