Sentences with phrase «life of ethanol»

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They exposed live ones to either the smell of their dead brethren or an ethanol control.

Life - Cycle Greenhouse Gas Implications of U.S. National Scenarios for Cellulosic Ethanol Production, Corinne Scown, William Nazaroff, Umakant Mishra, Bret Strogen, Agnes Lobscheid, Eric Masanet, Nicholas Santero, Arpad Horvath, Thomas McKone, Environmental Research Letters, 7 (1), doi: 10.1088 / 1748-9326/7 / 1 / 014011, January 24, 2012.

Tina Engels of Chicago paints her soft - edged «Still Life with Shell» (2011) in a careful arrangement with dried flowers; Amy MacLennan from St. Louis paints broad gestures in «Lilac Study Gold» (2010) and makes her «Ethanol Plant, Peoria» dissolve into the landscape.

How would that compete with ethanol in terms of land use, life - cycle emissions, and even cost?

While Q Microbe is not a GMO — it is a naturally occurring anaerobe that lives under the soil — the company is confident that the patents it is pursuing on the use of the microbe for ethanol production will yield a valuable intellectual property portfolio.

Improvements in Life Cycle Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Corn - Ethanol.

Adam J. Liska, Haishun S. Yang, Virgil R. Bremer, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Daniel T. Walters, Galen E. Erickson, and Kenneth G. Cassman (2009) Improvements in Life Cycle Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Corn - Ethanol, Journal of Industrial Ecology, doi: 10.1111 / j.1530 - 9290.2008.00105.

Responses to «Comment on «Response to Plevin: Implications for Life Cycle Emissions Regulations»» and «Assessing Corn Ethanol: Relevance and Responsibility» Journal of Industrial Ecology 13 (4).

President Obama continues to tout his «renewable» energy schemes as a «comprehensive»... «all of the above»... «energy strategy for the future» — even though wind, solar and ethanol programs combined provide less than 4 % of all the energy that powers the United States and makes our jobs, living standards, economy, health and welfare possible.

This new book has a chapter, «Changing the Conversation at GM,» that in four pages describes the company's journey from its «Live Green, Go Yellow» promotion of corn ethanol to the Chevy Volt.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

In fact, over the entire life cycle of growing and harvesting crops, turning them into fuel, transporting and using them in vehicles, ethanol and biodiesel emit as much CO2 as petroleum — and require infinitely more acreage.

Moreover, energy from oil and gas drilling is much less harmful to the environment — especially given the high usage of water, the unbearable flow of life - killing nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico, and of course the negative impacts on gasoline and diesel engines from the added ethanol (and the lower miles per gallon it delivers).

Craig Mackintosh at Celsias writes about «the obstinate pushing of ethanol from corn, sugar, soy, and palm oils in the face of their overwhelming detrimental effect on people's lives, and on the environment.

I (and perhaps others here) would welcome pointers to any peer - reviewed reports you are aware of that assess the energy cost of the entire nuclear life - cycle (from mining through waste storage and monitoring) so that the overall EROEI for the entire nuclear energy life cycle can be known (the kind of thing being done for ethanol).

More: Improvements in Life Cycle Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Corn - Ethanol

Some of the earliest forms of life on Earth — anaerobic bacteria — used fermentation to produce ethanol and in the process extracted energy to drive their metabolic functions.