Sentences with phrase «more ethanol»

However this is above current use which stands at 4.7 %, and includes a contradictory compulsory target to blend more ethanol into the petrol mix.

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

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BioConversion Technology, a start - up in Denver, claims to have developed such a catalyst and says that it can make more ethanol from a ton of feedstock for less money than NREL can by fermentation.

At MIT, scientists have engineered a new yeast strain that can survive in high levels of sugar and ethanol, producing 50 percent more ethanol than its natural cousins.

In other words, more ethanol production will increase America's total energy consumption, not decrease it.

At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.

The current trajectory for ethanol requirements pushes us closer to the blend wall, the point at which federal mandates require more ethanol in the fuel supply than can be safely blended as standard E10 gasoline.

The US investment in corn, largely with the hope of producing more ethanol for fuel, has been a main factor in the world's rising grain prices.

The RFS is forcing the use of more ethanol than the overall fuel supply can safely absorb — and in the process saddling refiners with using a fuel (cellulosic biofuel) that barely exists commercially.

Thus, fermentation in the presence of the carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion produced 21 times more ethanol than that using the ionic liquid.

But because ethanol has less energy content than gasoline — you have to burn more ethanol to go the same distance — ethanol is $ 4.82 per gallon on an energy - equivalent basis.

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor said, «We congratulate Mr. Pruitt on his nomination and look forward to working with him to carry out President - elect Trump's strong commitments to protecting the renewable fuel standard (RFS) and ending restrictions to getting more ethanol into our fuel supply.

The proposed action would not affect corn or other ethanol production and blending requirements, despite growing problems with incorporating more ethanol into gasoline.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

... Consequently, refiners are up against a «blend wall» as the mandate forces them to purchase more ethanol than they can safely put into gasoline.»

Seven years later, most people see the flaws in this energy strategy, but the EPA continues unabated in its quest to push more ethanol into America's automobiles.

As the justices acknowledge, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) will soon require refiners to sell more ethanol than can be blended as E10.

A longer growing season and superior photosynthetic efficiency contribute to Miscanthus» high yield The two principal reasons why Miscanthus yields more ethanol per acre than corn, Long explains, are that it makes green leaves 6 weeks earlier in the growing season and keeps them until late October.

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The oil industry argues that it is impractical to add more ethanol to the U.S. fuel mix.

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.

It lists, by vehicle manufacturers and model years, whether a specific manufacturer recommends operation of its vehicles on E15, which contains 50 percent more ethanol than the E10 fuel that's prevalent across the country.

And let's not forget some of the harmful biological and environmental impacts incurred by a shift to more ethanol production: huge use of water, increased soil erosion, more fertilizer use and more herbicide / pesticide use.

Since ethanol producers» goal is more ethanol use, and an EPA pullback on E15 would get in the way of that goal, attacks on both studies — such as those by the Renewable Fuels Association — aren't surprising.

Arguing that «there is no doubt it should be repealed,» the Washington Post editorial board explains: «Blending more and more ethanol into gasoline will require spending money on infrastructure that is not yet in place and selling more fuel that older and more specialized engines can not take.»

The more ethanol you have in your gas tank, the fewer the toxic additives and the cleaner it burns.

They prefer stressed or dying trees, which have more ethanol — an alcohol that's produced naturally by the plant — flowing through their tissues.

The branches with the highest red coloration produce 160 % more ethanol.

Adding more ethanol will also increase the complexity of America's refining infrastructure, which is already straining to meet demand, thus raising pump prices.

But the ethanol boosters are ignoring some unpleasant facts: Ethanol won't significantly reduce our oil imports; adding more ethanol to our gas tanks adds further complexity to our motor - fuel supply chain, which will lead to further price hikes at the pump; and, most important (and most astonishing), it may take more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than it actually contains.

It produces 10 — 15 % more ethanol than a strain that utilizes glucose alone.

To accomplish these conflicting goals, motorists are now given tax credits to drive heavily - subsidized electric cars, even as they will supposedly be required to buy more and more ethanol - laced fuel each year.

The EPA's goals appear on the surface to merely be a) reduce pollution and b) reduce dependence on oil via using more ethanol.

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supply.

Unfortunately, the bill is a distraction from fundamental problems with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which is forcing more and more ethanol into the nation's fuel supply.

The more ethanol that is present in the breath and chamber, the higher the amount of radiation that will be absorbed.