Sentences with phrase «make more ethanol»

This is how we can produce massive quantities of domestic biofuel and solve our liquid fuel demand: We could remove the starch from ALL of our feed corn (instead of just part of it) to make more ethanol.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

Does it help that the corn is much more likely to be destined to be made into ethanol than high fructose corn syrup?

From the start, the ethanol industry has been dogged by concerns about its net energy balance — whether ethanol requires more fossil fuel to make than it replaces.

Outwardly, the way ethanol is made has not changed much, but each step of the process has grown markedly more efficient, beginning with the farmers.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

«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.

For cellulosic to make its way onto the market, federal policy will need to do more to encourage distribution of higher blends of ethanol, the ethanol industry says.

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Enzymes cost about 50 cents per gallon of ethanol, so recycling or using fewer enzymes would make biofuels more inexpensive.

The U.S. Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels, including ethanol made from corn stover.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

«Cost competitive, energy responsible cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass or from forestry waste like sawdust and wood chips requires a more complex refining process but it's worth the investment,» Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said at the Range Fuels facility groundbreaking in November.

They grow more of the green parts of the plant, which can be converted chemically to make fuel, including ethanol and electricity.

Indeed, what makes corn ethanol «renewable» — in the sense that we can always make more of it by planting more kernels — is actually a huge part of what makes it so unsustainable in the long term.

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).

Now I oppose ethanol production, but Clinton, Bush and the rest are correct that sugar ethanol makes a little more sense then corn base.

Cellulosic ethanol makes a great deal more sense, but has a way to go before it is practical.

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

Adding ethanol to the 45 blends we already have means we will be «making more blends for more markets.

David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

But in short term, wind and solar are far worse than making ethanol in terms causing more Co2 emissions].

The business of grain ethanol has revitalized many rural communities, and has made farming much more profitable.

And the researchers deliberately excluded CO2 emissions from burning the ethanol in car engines, making their findings of a net increase in GHG's even more damning.

The combination of plug - in hybrids and bio-deisel (a much more energy - efficient fuel to make than ethanol) could significantly reduce developed world demand for oil for passenger transport.

Just growing corn and preserving it in a salt mine forever whilst making gasoline from coal or natural gas will even capture far more carbon than using it for ethanol does.

The Q Microbe ™ is used to make cellulosic ethanol from plant waste and could transform the energy industry by making ethanol more quickly and cost effectively than conventional technologies.

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.

Ethanol made from a prairie grass shows promise as a viable fuel that could be much more environmentally friendly and energy - efficient than corn ethanol, a new studEthanol made from a prairie grass shows promise as a viable fuel that could be much more environmentally friendly and energy - efficient than corn ethanol, a new studethanol, a new study says.

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

«What makes matters worse is that the EPA just mandated that more corn ethanol must go into American gas tanks.»

Carlos Rittl of Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental NGOs, said Brazil was now hiding behind the gains it made in the past rather than pushing ahead with more ambitious climate policies involving greater investment in wind, solar, ethanol and biomass.

«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.

Nine of those utilities are in Minnesota, whose wind power and ethanol resources make these vehicles even more attractive.

Companies should make use of infrastructures in place where capital costs can be minimized in order to integrate a cellulosic ethanol industry into commercialization faster and more economically, Burke said.

Whatever is happening with the weather, we should remember that we are motivating farmers to produce more corn, so they can make ethanol to put in our auto fuel.

America's ethanol policy has seriously compromised the chicken industry, so we can expect Lincoln to take a more conservative approach with fuels made out of food.

When we assume the ethanol production process is fully renewable, it would take all the corn in the country to displace about 3.5 percent of our gasoline consumption — only slightly more than we could displace by making sure drivers» tires are inflated properly.

Learn more about how non-food based ethanol is one part of the UCS plan to reduce projected U.S. oil use in half in twenty years, and what you can do to help make this plan a reality.

Here are the details: Science Daily reports that researchers from Guildford have developed a new strain of bacteria which can aid in the processing of cellulosic ethanol, making the procedure more efficient and less costly than traditional fermentation processes.

Cardayre argues that LS9's biofuels offer several benefits that make them more attractive as an alternative to fossil fuels than do ethanol - derived fuels, including higher cost - efficiency and lower energy consumption in production (65 % less energy).

Use of pure ethanol will rise sharply as carmakers in Brazil such as General Motors and Volkswagen make more flexible - fuel cars.

Back in 2007, researchers refined a heat - seeking rod - shaped bacterium of the geobacillus family, which is 300 times more effective at making ethanol than its wild strain counterpart.

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A tax on CO2 emissions, and credits for CO2 sequestration might make ethanol more economic, and certainly carbon negative.

But a farmer can grow more corn, or less cattle, and send corn to an ethanol plant, and still make money, especially if there's a subsidy.

But dropping the subsidy makes Brazil's cane sugar ethanol more viable on the market — and that is a more environmentally sound fuel.