Sentences with phrase «made on ethanol»

The coffee is made on an ethanol - powered siphon brewer so even the fuel is green.

A Time Magazine article late last year highlighted well Rainforest Rescue's objections to industrial agrofuels, indicating there are some hard choices to be made on ethanol by President Obama and his Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Not exact matches

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

The U.S. is drunk on ethanol — but whether it is made from corn or sugarcane, the crop - derived biofuel raises a host of questions

Then, Dextre reached into the module, grabbed one of four toaster - size, custom - made, high - tech tools there, and proceeded to snip two safety wires, unscrew two filler caps on the outside of the module and pump a few liters of ethanol into a small holding tank.

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.

«A biorefinery that focuses not only on ethanol, but on other products that can be made from the biomass is more efficient and profitable overall,» he said.

The scientists say that the presence of the oxygen in the copper causes some of the copper to become positively charged and this, in turn, stabilizes the CO2 so that it can bind to water and take on the bent configuration essential to eventually making ethanol.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

«We plan to move quickly to make a bolt - on technology easily accessible to ethanol producers so they can expand their product line,» Shopoff said.

Previous studies on switchgrass plots suggested that ethanol made from the plant would yield anywhere from 343 % to 700 % of the energy put into growing the crop and processing it into biofuel.

The company can produce more than 100 gallons of fuel per ton based on lab experiments because bacteria make more ethanol: «We aren't producing butanol, propanol, hexanol, octanol, and all the other alcohols,» Bolsen says.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

For all its prowess in making cheap ethanol, Brazil, which spends relatively little on R&D, has fallen behind in the race to convert cellulose to fuel.

Cellulose is difficult to break down and ferment, but several facilities in the United States are on the verge of making commercial cellulosic ethanol — for example, by using specialist enzymes to break down the long - chain cellulose molecules — and Brazil doesn't want to be left behind.

Corn ethanol would have never been able to make it on its thermodynamic merits, and w / o subsidies would have been dead in the water years ago *.

A 5.7 L «iForce» V8 making 381 horsepower and 401 lb - ft of torque is available on all models, and in some regions, the engine can be optioned to run on E85 ethanol / gasoline blend.

On petrol, the engine makes 170hp and 202Nm of torque, though when run on ethanol, it makes 176hp and 221Nm of peak torquOn petrol, the engine makes 170hp and 202Nm of torque, though when run on ethanol, it makes 176hp and 221Nm of peak torquon ethanol, it makes 176hp and 221Nm of peak torque.

It does not involve «flexible - fuel» vehicles, which can run on alternative fuels such as ethanol or natural gas, or those made after September 1999.

For feedlot / dairy operations feeding a byproduct of an ethanol or biodiesel facility: Borrowers are eligible for an interest buydown of up to 4.00 % which may be used to reduce the borrower's interest rate on loans made by a local lender and BND, subject to a minimum rate of 1.00 % to the borrower.

He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.

The only issue I see with ethanol is that it depends somewhat on crop growth, and fossil fuels are used heavily to make modern fertilizer.

«Several years ago, we made some decisions about how corn is going to be used to make ethanol, which is added to our gasoline,» said Velshi on «American Morning» April 4.

Keep reading to learn more about who's making it, corn and other feedstocks, and ethanol's effects on fuel prices.

With competition for plant waste among cellulosic ethanol plants, landscapers, and a range of other users, added to the fact that millions of cell phones are made each year, it could quickly become yet another burden on the earth to be using so much compostable, good - for - the - soil plant matter for cell phone frames.

Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in buildings by 25 percent.

But your comments are irrelevant to whether sugar cane ethanol makes sense in itself Its the EROI value of 10 which saying that ethanol made sense in itself on energy terms.

The statements are made that we can not run ALL our cars on ethanol, so forget it.

We should phase out subsidies for corn ethanol as cellulose and other forms for making alternate fuels come on line.

How much progress have we made on cellulosic ethanol?

The energy return on sugarcane ethanol as it has been calculated does appear to be in the 8/1 range, which would make it better than gasoline.

The ethanol plant we focused on would definitely still have that problem, since any decrease in the market price for ethanol could make it optimal to idle the plant.

That will be handled like cane juice to make more ethanol, on top of the above estimates.

William Frey, CEO of Qteros, says that Zymetis's approach keys in on a major challenge in making cellulosic ethanol affordable.

With EPA receiving public input on its proposed ethanol - use volumes for 2018, it's important to see that America's energy renaissance in natural gas and oil production is the biggest reason for the progress the U.S. has made toward those RFS objectives.

Because ethanol has one - third less energy than gasoline and does not make up the difference in price, the higher the ethanol blend, the more money you spend on each mile driven.

Information is available on the RFS itself, as well as problems that have made the program and its ethanol mandates untenable — like the refining «blend wall,» potential risks to vehicle and equipment engines and impacts on food prices.

The EPA claims that ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has only a minimal impact on food prices.

The Ethanol market is over-subsidized at this point, which is the only reason it makes economic sense on the surface.

To make sure demand for ethanol will grow substantially, the association wants a federal mandate that all carmakers receiving federal aid would make only cars that can run on a blend of up to 85 percent ethanol, starting with the 2010 models.

«The Toomey - Feinstein partial repeal would make the RFS even more burdensome for Americans because it will focus the mandate on costly phantom fuels like cellulosic ethanol.

Because sugar cane to ethanol is estimated to have a much higher energy return on energy invested than many oils to biodiesel, it is not apparent if people expect to make monetary returns similar to the industrial scale ethanol industry.

Corn ethanol does not need the mandate to survive in the market, and doing away with only the implied - corn ethanol part of the program would make the mandate worse by focusing it on expensive «advanced» biofuels.

Before the US started making corn ethanol, nobody was buying all of it, it was piling up on the ground.

On longer drives, it would use a fuel mix of 80 % ethanol — alcohol, in the U.S. made mainly from corn — and 20 % gas.

It invested in a pilot plant run by a small Canadian biotechnology firm named Iogen, which put itself on the map by shipping the first commercial batch of ethanol made from straw last year.

Combine this device with an onboard ethanol - water to hydrogen reformer, and you'll have vehicles that run on hydrogen made from ethanol.

And the fuel is much cheaper, because the shipping cost of locally made ethanol is much lower, and because part of the 51 cent per gallon ethanol blending subsidy is being passed on to consumers.

Increases in ethanol production since 2007 have made little, or no, contribution to U.S. energy supplies, or dependence on foreign crude oil.

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