Sentences with phrase «just as another biofuel»

Not exact matches

Biofuel production nationwide has been woefully behind schedule as would - be producers struggle to just get their first commercial plants rolling.

As it stands, however, the Navy has spent more than $ 5 billion more than budgeted in the past year just on oil and it has set a goal of securing half its fuel needs from biofuels by 2020.

The Navy's effort extends beyond just biofuels, of course, and includes projects such as lightening loads for U.S. marines by using solar cells to replace heavy batteries.

As a carbon source lignin can be very valuable, we just need a way to tap into it without jeopardizing the sugars we need for biofuels.»

This first - of - its - kind test flight was part of an ongoing Air Force effort to prove that planes perform just as well with biofuel in the tank.

However, the CSU analysis finds that the details of where and how you grow the plant material is just as significant or even more significant for the greenhouse gas footprint of the biofuel, said Field.

Just as in algae biofuel production on land, the floating OMEGA bags use water, solar energy and carbon dioxide — which in this case is absorbed through the plastic membrane — to produce sugar that algae metabolize into lipids.

Just as incinerators often start out burning forestry waste, and end up using virgin wood once supply of «waste» runs out, so too anaerobic digestion plants may begin by using food waste, and end up utilizing forest products or other «biofuels» grown deliberately for the purpose.

We need to avoid getting locked - in to «inferior» technologies, such as «first generation» biofuels, which just a few years ago were considered a slam - dunk carbon - neutral technology / energy source for which the relevant technologies were allegedly both available and scalable.

Biofuel investment should amount to 0.3 billion dollars up to 2035, Birol adds — so the big oil alternative would receive just 3 percent as much * money as continued investment in the fossil fuel it is one day supposed to replace.

And if you simply grew stuff to produce biochar, the carbon economics would be turned on their head, just as they are if old - growth forest is stripped for biofuel plantations.

Just as diversity through electricity was the key to America's industrial sector being able to increase productivity without increasing oil consumption, so too is it one of two keys (the other being diversity through biofuel) to fueling the growing number of vehicles expected on global highways without adding to the strain on global oil supplies and without everyone choking on their own exhaust.

With this in mind, climate change could be just another unique opportunity for weeds and other hardy plants to fulfill other roles: as potential biofuel candidates (kudzu, swtichgrass and jatropha for example), as a source of natural materials for furniture, or even as food — because weeds are evolving, just as we are.

Even if mitigation were likely to be effective, it would do more harm than good: already millions face starvation as the dash for biofuels takes agricultural land out of essential food production: a warning that taking precautions, «just in case», can do untold harm unless there is a sound, scientific basis for them.