Sentences with phrase «like ethanol from corn»

Stop wasting money on things that do no good like ethanol from corn.

Speaking of a bio-based economy, did the push for biofuels like ethanol from corn make farming's problems worse?

Not exact matches

Ethanol from places like Corn Plus travels by barge or railroad to distribution terminals, then is combined with gasoline at the rack where tanker trucks load up.

But the problem is that most of the ethanol we have right now is when it is talked about it being a first generation biofuel; that is that ethanol fuel is coming from the fermentation of sugars from crops like corn.

Chemists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are closing in on cheap ways to make cellulosic ethanol, a form of ethanol derived from agricultural waste rather than food crops like soybeans or corn.

The United States expanded its federal biofuels mandate in a 2007 law to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, with up to 15 billion gallons coming from corn ethanol and the balance from so - called advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol.

This problem can become even bigger for biofuels like corn ethanol that emit greenhouse gases at every step, from laughing gas emanating from corn fields after fertilization to the CO2 from the fermentation of kernels into ethanol.

The E. coli can be grown in large fermentation tanks, exactly like those used to brew ethanol from corn, and have also been genetically tweaked to tolerate high concentrations of BDO in their water.

If she can perfect the process, it could lead to inexpensive biofuels that are made from inedible crops — not from corn like most of today's ethanol.

Where will that energy come from if we make many more poor choices like corn ethanol (a systems analysis of which showed that it took more total energy to produce than it delivered).

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.

The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and ethanol from corn.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is a type of biofuel produced from organic matter like corn, sugarcane, grasses, agricultural waste, and even garbage.

Another critic argues that the studies fail to consider no - till cultivation of biofuel crops, which actually increase soil carbon storage, and that corn ethanol plants are converting to renewable energy, thus decreasing their emissions - meanwhile they are competing against fossil fuels like oil from tar sands that have an increased carbon footprint even compared to conventional gasoline.

One reason Obama feels like he can shun the oil industry is that he comes from a «corn state» and has ties to the ethanol industry.

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)

Ethanol production from corn also creates byproducts, like corn oil and gluten feed, which are valuable (albeit not fuel - related) commodities; considering all of these variables can eventually cancel the shortfall.

The report goes on to suggest, like our commenter, that there is a slight reduction in greenhouse gas generation from ethanol, but that the other environmental effects of intense corn farming outweigh the gain.