Sentences with phrase «liquid biofuels»

But the more research that's done on liquid biofuels, the less attractive they become.

Most critically, liquid fossil fuels used in the world's vehicle fleet of cars and trucks can not simply be replaced with liquid biofuels.

Currently most liquid biofuels are produced from food crops and yield low economic and environmental benefits compared to fossil fuels.

Devoting land to growing feedstock for liquid biofuels, or growing biomass for generating electricity, augurs the greatest potential energy sprawl of the major energy alternatives under discussion.

However, it is expected that a new generation of liquid biofuels will become available in the next decade using wood as well as agricultural and forestry residues.

Such second - generation liquid biofuels produced from woody biomass rather than from food crops would also reduce competition with food production.

The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a partnership between three national laboratories and three Bay Area universities, was formed in June 2007 after the U.S. Department of Energy awarded the institute a $ 125 million grant to develop better methods for making liquid biofuels from the natural cellulose in trees and grasses.

This toolkit have been developed to complement the products and results of the research project «Global assessment and guidelines for sustainable liquid biofuel production in developing countries».

Thus, if technological developments make it more efficient and at least as economical to produce liquid biofuels from cellulosic material rather than from food crops, the result would be reduced competition with food production, an increase in energy efficiency and improved overall energy balance.

No, the EU now gets more than 60 per cent of its renewable energy from biomass: some from crops grown to make liquid biofuels, but mostly from waste wood and felled trees.

The development of an economically viable process for producing cellulosic liquid biofuels could lead to the widespread use of forest biomass in the transport sector.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

This project will develop a new process for the thermal treatment of the biomass fraction of municipal solid waste and its processing into liquid biofuel.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being entirely off fossil fuels: The idea is to take two kinds of algae which are brought in attached to ships, Sargassum muticum and Undaria pinnafitida, and use it in a new 40 MW power plant.

4.3 The efficiency of liquid biofuels in terms of greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum motor fuels varies from one type of biofuel to the other.

In 1990, wind, biogases and liquid biofuels represented less than 0.6 % of renewable electricity combined.

At present, bioethanol is the second - generation liquid biofuel closest to commercialization.

Agricultural residues are likely to be among the lowest - cost liquid biofuel feedstocks.

Researchers from South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSMT) are heading a project to to investigate methane cycling in deep and extreme environments and to develop new biological routes using previously unexplored and novel microorganisms from extreme environments for converting methane into value - added products such as liquid biofuels, biopolymers,... Read more →

'' [T] he rapid growth in first - generation liquid biofuels production will raise agricultural commodity prices and could have negative economic and social effects, particularly on the poor who spend a large share of income on food,» the report says.

Efforts to make isobutanol from bacteria alone have been underway since 2000 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began distributing grants to universities that could demonstrate successful production of liquid biofuels.

All these supports and promotion schemes for liquid biofuels should be scrapped, because of overwhelming scientific evidence that using land to produce energy crops delivers no climate benefits at all once agricultural emissions and land - use change are taken into account.

As an example, soot - free buses can be powered by a wide range of fuels including fossil diesel or compressed natural gas (CNG), biogas, or other liquid biofuels, and electric drive engines including hybrid drive, fuel cell, and battery electric drivetrains.

Most talk of algae and renewable energy on TreeHugger involves liquid biofuels, but a new plan being put forth in Venice hopes to use algae to generate electricity and allow the city take one large step towards being

Most studies project that second - generation liquid biofuels from perennial crops and woody and agricultural residues could dramatically reduce life cycle greenhouse gas emissions relative to petroleum fuels.

Increasingly, agricultural crops such as oil palm, sugar cane, maize, rapeseed, soybeans and wheat, are being used to produce liquid biofuels, mainly to power vehicles.

That's because, since 2005, provincial and federal policies in Canada have required gasoline and diesel fuel to include some liquid biofuel.

One of these survivors is Cool Planet Energy Systems, a Greenwood Village, Colo., firm that made a splash in 2009 with a technology called pyrolysis that can heat farm wastes, wood chips and nutshells in the absence of oxygen to create fumes that are then passed through a catalyst to make a liquid biofuel.

He said, however, that liquid biofuels can and should play a central role in reducing the transportation sector's petroleum dependence, alongside programs to reduce vehicle sizes, charge for carbon emissions, and encourage lifestyles requiring less personal mobility.

The definition of renewables includes hydropower, wind and wave power, solar and geothermal energy and combustible renewables and renewable waste (landfill gas, waste incineration, solid biomass and liquid biofuels).

Today, only a small proportion of liquid biofuels are forest - based, but forest biomass to produce cellulosic liquid biofuels for the transport sector could become widespread.

3.2.2 Within an estimated 10 to 15 years, wood and low - cost agricultural residues derived from the production of various cereals will likely be used to produce economically competitive second - generation liquid biofuels.

The report warned that increasing production of liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, could increase the price of agricultural commodities with negative economic and social impacts, especially for the world's poor who spend a large proportion of income on food.

Sugar cane is the most economically attractive agricultural feedstock for liquid biofuel, while maize and other cereal and oilseed crops from the Northern Hemisphere are less competitive under market conditions (Figure 16).

Bioenergy can, for instance, be derived from solid woodfuels, such as fuelwood and charcoal or from liquid biofuels, such as black liquor (a by - product from the paper industry) and ethanol obtained from wood.

In terms of cost efficiency, sugar cane is currently the most economically attractive option for liquid biofuel, but future technological developments could make wood - based second - generation biofuels competitive.

In addition, technological developments are expected to increase future interest in more efficient «second generation» liquid biofuels, which are not derived from food crops, but from plant materials such as agricultural residues, forestry residues, and wood from forest plantations.

The United States, China and India will remain the top three consumers of liquid biofuels.

3.2 «First generation» liquid biofuels include biodiesel and bioethanol and are derived from various food crops that vary by geographical location, for instance cereals, rapeseed and sugar cane.

The greatest decreases in greenhouse emissions result from the conversion of whole plants to liquid biofuels.

As most of the growth in demand for liquid biofuel is expected in developed countries, the scope for trade is the main factor affecting development plans in the majority of developing countries.

Worldwide, only about 1 percent of the consumption of transport fuels comes from liquid biofuels.

Liquid biofuel production must grow ten-fold.

Liquid biofuels might offer advantages in terms of emissions — though clearly not on measures of water intensity — but they have a very tall mountain to climb to become capable of delivering energy on the scale required for the world's growing air, sea and land transportation needs, including not just developing Asia but now also Africa.

The idea that we could fight a war with corn ethanol and soy biodiesel, (which account for about 99.9 percent of our liquid biofuels) is ludicrous, which is why the military has been funding research for alternatives.

Liquid biofuel was the next biggest renewables sector, with 1.7 m jobs, with Brazil and the US the largest nations.

The «technology to eliminate fossil fuel combustion» includes solar and wind energy, geothermal energy, a variety of hydropower energy sources, combustion of biomass to generate electricity (an entirely different matter than liquid biofuels for transport) and more — ALL of which is already at hand, and already being deployed at both large and small scales all over the world.