Sentences with phrase «known as biofuels»

Growing crops for fuel — known as biofuels — represents another potential way of cutting GHGs by replacing fossil fuels (biofuels created underground by nature over millions of years).

These are also known as biofuels, i.e. plants that would otherwise potentially go to feed people (or grown on land that would otherwise grow food) going into gas tanks instead.

Directive 2003 / 30 / EC, more popularly known as the biofuel directive (or the Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport) is voted on becomes effective in May.

Not exact matches

The conclusions deal a blow to what are known as cellulosic biofuels, which have received more than a billion dollars in federal support but have struggled to meet volume targets mandated by law.

Rennie: The economic challenge is of course that basically all of these kinds of biofuels are ultimately in competition with regular old gasoline that you would have to pump and for as long as oil is really, really cheap, which, you know, for most part we are sort of happily in the situation that's it is a lot less expensive than it was a couple of years ago.

Because the salt solvent, known as ionic liquids, interferes with later stages in biofuels production, it needs to be removed before proceeding, a process that takes time and money.

On a commercial scale, however, today's main biofuel is ethanol, also known as grain alcohol.

The objective of the current program is 1,000 hours of co-gasification of pyrolysis oil and black liquor, which makes a total of about 125 tons of the biofuel dimethyl ether (DME), popularly known as green diesel.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

After treating a common cellulosic biofuels plant called switchgrass with a compound known as an ionic liquid (IL) to break apart the plant fibers and reduce the lignin, the researchers added their engineered E. coli.

Researchers at Michigan State University have built a molecular Swiss Army knife that streamlines the molecular machinery of cyanobacteria, also known as blue - green algae, making biofuels and other green chemical production from these organisms more viable.

In particular, the yeast species Yarrowia lipolytica has strong potential as a biofuel - producing organism because it accumulates large amounts of lipids, but little is known about the key biological processes involved.

Mandatory Demand as a Policy Instrument: The Case of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Biofuel Program, Jay Kesan, Timothy Slating, Hsiao - Shan Yang, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No.

HMF, also known as 5 - hydroxymethylfurfural, can be used as a building block for plastics and «biofuels» such as gasoline and diesel, essentially the same fuels processed from crude oil.

No, in the US, decreasing our dependence on foreign oil is cited by many as being the major reason for increasing biofuel production.

But an unregulated biofuels boom in Brazil could mean bust for the Amazon rain forest and a vast savanna ecosystem known as the Cerrado, environmentalists warn.

Pyrolysis, Gasification and Hydro - Thermal Carbonization are known biofuel technologies, What is new are the concomitant benefits of biochars for Soil Carbon Sequestration; building soil biodiversity & nitrogen efficiency, for in situ remediation of toxic agents, and, as a feed supplement cutting the carbon foot print of livestock.

I raise the subject of biofuels since the subject of science — what we know as opposed to what we think we know about it — has been on my mind in recent days.

Agrofuels (also known as «biofuels») are putting major and growing pressure on our land, food and forests, as well as damaging both people and planet.

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.&raquAs biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.&raquas the «E10 Blend Wall.»

However, as it became clear that biofuels were not only connected to deforestation, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions (sometimes exceeding fossil fuels), but also competed with the global food supply and water sources, biofuels no longer seemed like a silver bullet, but a new problem facing the environment and the poor.

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.

Since going into operation in 2009, ARPA - E, as it is known, has provided about $ 1.3 billion in funding to more than 475 projects involving grid - scale batteries, power storage, biofuel production, wind turbines and other technology, according to a May report on the agency.

The promotion of biofuels - more accurately known as agrofuels - is causing massive environmental and social damage from Colombia and Brazil to Indonesia and Malaysia.

As technology after technology — biofuel, hydrogen, wind, solar — was wheeled out and presented, it was patently clear that they knew and we knew and they knew we knew that none of it was going to be a viable competitor to fossil without massive subsidies, and even then it wasn't really competitive.

These are known as «indirect land use changes,» and they are at the heart of a brewing debate between biofuel critics who say the cause - effect relationship is clear, and biofuels proponents who say the indirect changes are almost impossible to measure given the current data available.

So, more attention and resources are going into the producing of ethanol and other biofuel types from second - generation feedstocks, sometimes known as non-food crops.

They have achieved a great deal of damage already, from biofuel driven starvation through frightened children schooled in anti-human alarmism and despair, to diversion of resources into renewable energy and into that cesspit of corruption known as carbon trading, as well as an apparently extensive loss of confidence and optimism in industrial progress — if only amongst the wealthy chatterati.