Sentences with phrase «known as the ethanol»

The «plus» at Corn Plus is ethyl alcohol, better known as ethanol.
A key inflationary factor is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate.
The study argues that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), commonly known as the ethanol mandate, is detrimental to both non-ethanol industry corn users and food and fuel consumers.

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With the help of government subsidies, companies are investing in converting wood fibre (known as biomass) into ethanol and diesel.
There are an estimated 65,000 of the older cars, known as DOT - 111s, currently hauling oil or ethanol in a largely integrated North American fleet — up to a third of which are being used in Canada at any given time.
In the first published account of sugar and alcohol in a comet, astronomers have detected ethanol, the sugar glycolaldehyde, and other organic molecules spewing from a comet known as comet Lovejoy, New Scientist reports.
As part of the genus Populus, which includes poplars and cottonwoods, they are known for their fast growth and ability to adapt to diverse environments — two qualities that make them prime candidates for cellulosic ethanol.
Scientists have experimented for decades with a class of catalysts known as zeolites that transform alcohols such as ethanol into higher - grade hydrocarbons.
On a commercial scale, however, today's main biofuel is ethanol, also known as grain alcohol.
Biologists know that compared with flies from tropical Africa, flies from temperate regions such as Europe survive longer when exposed to ethanol vapors of high concentrations, and they know it has something to do with enzymes on the flies» second chromosomes, which break down alcohol and are more active in European flies.
I used to purchase the Quicksilver Scientific brand but they use other ingredients like ethanol that didn \» t set well with me and I know your liposomal formulations do not have ingredients such as this one.
As you may know, ethanol attracts and bonds with water from the air, and that water can separate out inside the tank due to phase separation.
Flex Fuel (also known as E85) is a gasoline - ethanol blend containing anywhere from 51 to 83 % ethanol, and can only be used in Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs).
The breathtaking promise of the Q Microbe has led to the creation of a company, now known as Qteros, that is seeking to bring the production of cellulosic ethanol to the marketplace.
I know one thing; I can't think of any other technology that has the potential to make a difference anywhere near the time frame as cellulosic ethanol.
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.»
In June 2011, the ethanol industry voluntarily ended the main corn ethanol tax credit, known as the VEETC, as well as the ethanol import tariff.
The common ethanol blend E10, otherwise known as gasohol, is made up of 10 % ethanol and 90 % gasoline sold throughout the US.
Do you really not know that the rationale behind policies mandating ethanol was not as simple as you state?
As a way to reduce global warming, they knew that corn ethanol was a dubious proposition.
... Oil industry proponents have said that the escalating requirements of ethanol to be added would force them to sell fuel blends exceeding 10 percent or export gasoline, a phenomenon known as «hitting the blend wall.»
Automakers were given fuel economy credits for selling cars capable of running on fuel that is 85 percent ethanol (known as E85), under the theory that this would help drive E85 to market and we would use less oil.
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.
Two of those projects, at an ethanol refinery in Decatur, IL and a municipal solid waste incinerator in Oslo, will help demonstrate the concept of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (known as «BECCS» for short), which climate scientists see as a prime candidate for delivering large - scale carbon removal in the future.
The ethanol industry is quick to point out that about a third of the corn it uses is converted not to ethanol, but to highly nutritious livestock feed, including a byproduct known as distillers grains.
Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known to the world at large as «Click and Clack,» the hosts of NPR's weekly Car Talk program, recently addressed the controversial issue of ethanol efficacy (something we've covered before).
When EPA green - lighted E15 use, it knew E15 vehicle testing was ongoing but decided not to wait for the results — most likely to raise the permissible concentration level of ethanol in fuels so that greater volumes could be used, as required by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
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