Sentences with phrase «like other biofuels»

Not exact matches

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

On paper, making biofuels from switchgrass and other perennials that need not be replanted seems like a no - brainer.

Professor McGeehan said: «The engineering process is much the same as for enzymes currently being used in bio-washing detergents and in the manufacture of biofuels — the technology exists and it's well within the possibility that in the coming years we will see an industrially viable process to turn PET and potentially other substrates like PEF, PLA, and PBS, back into their original building blocks so that they can be sustainably recycled.»

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

With regard to difficulty, some parallels with other inefficient ideas like shale oil (tar sands), biofuels (particularly from corn), and on the way - out fringe, the moon and mars.

Today, companies like KiOR, Virent, and many others are moving forward with the next generation of biofuels.

Continued support for wind, solar and other forms of green energy like biofuel «represents total madness» as these energy systems don't justify the massive costs of the subsidies required to support them.

This is the new face of the old threat — that new land - based mitigation techniques, such as biochar, bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and other types of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) geoengineering approaches, as well as old «solutions» like biofuels, will compete with the use of land to feed people.

Costa Rica is also developing — and attracting investment in — other areas like solar, wind, and biofuels and has committed to becoming carbon - neutral by 2021.

By replacing animal and human muscle and low - density energy sources like wood, dung, and other biofuels, and low - density, intermittent wind and solar, fossil and nuclear fuels have freed people from the basic tasks of survival to devote time and bodily energy to other occupations.

Certainly it's also a function of years of government - funded research, but other fields like wave power, instream hydro, and biofuels have had the same research with limited results.

It seems like massive planes are a long ways off, but any bit helps, so maybe biofuels are one solution with electronic planes the other, and if at least one works then we're good.

Sugarcane - based biofuel, an approach favored by other big biofuel producers like Brazil, offers greater energy efficiency and is made with a crop that can be grown in unused lands in many tropical countries, contributing to their development, he told reporters.