Sentences with phrase «more ethanol in»

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.

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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.

Then I noticed the Sunoco fuel used by NASCAR teams is an E-15 blend... and long story short, in my effort to become more socially responsible, I have become an ethanol proponent.

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

The industry has hundreds of large factories in the region, with products of tapioca starch and derivatives including sweeteners, modified starches, and, more recently, fuel ethanol.

Vodka's composition is almost evenly split between water and ethanol (to be exact, it is about 60 % water and 40 % ethanol) When you add it to any dough, it means that only a bit more than half of it (60 %) is active in gluten development.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

New machinery developed by Biorefining Inc. in Minnesota precisely breaks kernels into their constituent elements, which may convert more of the starch into ethanol at a lower cost, while also freeing up more of the valuable coproducts like corn oil.

The researchers, who found that ethanol requires 29 percent more fossil energy than it provides, question the morality of using grain to fuel cars in the face of world hunger.

By 2001 every BTU consumed in ethanol production generated 67 percent more energy, when coproducts like distillers» grains are taken into account.

«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.»

In the most conservative countries, low - risk consumption means drinking no more than 10 g of pure ethanol per day for women, 20 g for men.

Ethanol demand in the U.S., for example, has caused some farmers to plant more corn and less soy.

Well, if you don't do things systematically, you end up doing corn ethanol in Iowa and thinking you solved the problem, when all you have done is really drive up food prices and encourage more people to plant palm oil, basically, in the Amazon.

«We could combat climate change, reduce harm to health and foster advances in automotive technology by offering a stimulus for auto makers to develop more economical and efficient cars fueled by ethanol.»

According to analyses that have been published in Science and carried out by the California Air Resources Board, corn - based ethanol is actually worse than gasoline, mainly because growing more corn for ethanol forces farmers to clear additional grasslands and forests to grow food crops.

From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than ethanol.

In fact, compared with ethanol, which enhances synaptic plasticity only after long - term use, «stress can do the same job more rapidly,» Morikawa 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.

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.

The researchers conducted more than 60 experiments in which about 3.5 ounces of saline or ethanol solutions representing the planetary projectile that hit Earth was dropped into a rectangular tank holding about six gallons of fluid representing the early Earth.

However, more than 10 billion gallons of ethanol will be transported and blended in 2009, and the earlier limitations in ethanol distribution and blending are no longer the major factor in the growth of the industry.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

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.

Though similar in structure to ethanol, these fuels behave much more like gasoline.

Biologists know that compared with flies from tropical Africa, flies from temperate regions such as Europe survive longer when exposed to ethanol vapors of high concentrations, and they know it has something to do with enzymes on the flies» second chromosomes, which break down alcohol and are more active in European flies.

If you don't do things systematically, you end up doing corn ethanol in Iowa and thinking you solved the problem, when all you have done is drive up food prices and encourage more people to plant, say, palm oil in the Amazon.

«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.

Regular drinkers of ethanol — the type of alcohol found in frosty malted beverages — eventually require more and more drinks to feel tipsy.

Here, where the molecules are close to each other, they bond together to form more complex molecules like methanol, ethanol, simple sugars, etc. and water in the form of ice.

The staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted three new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications to the LCFS public comments website: one for corn ethanol (from Heartland Corn Products in Minnesota) and one ARB staff - developed pathway (with two scenarios) for the production of... Read more →

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.

Second, they're renewable — in the case of ethanol, you just grow more corn.

Using corn to produce ethanol has driven up food prices in recent years, and converting forests and other areas into farmland to grow more corn for biofuels may well negate ethanol's improved greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

Oxygen consumption in the presence of ethanol is increased by fructose more than glucose (Thieden and Lundquist, 1967).

It's said that ethanol is capable of more power than gasoline in an engine exclusively designed for it.

So ethanol has only (roughly) 2/3 as much energy, but is 60 % more efficient in an internal combustion engine.

All that and more, plus a preview of Autoline This Week about whether using ethanol in gasoline hurts our food supply.

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FlexFuel can be advantageous in parts of the country where higher - percentage ethanol fuel blends are offered, as GM FlexFuel engines have been engineered to produce more horsepower while running high - octane blends.

The 3.0 liter Duratec V6 gets a one to two MPG bump in economy but more important it goes from 221 HP to 240 HP and 222 lb - ft of torque (250 HP on ethanol).

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A team at the University of Birmingham reports that a blend of 33 % v / v of butanol in EN228 commercial gasoline containing 5 % of ethanol (B33) reduces GDI (gasoline direct injection) engine - out carbonaceous emissions, while maintaining similar levels of NOx emissions when compared to standard gasoline combustion at low and medium... Read more →

Especially in South America, sugarcane (which is what is actually farmed) is trading more and more like an oil proxy because of the significant use of sugar ethanol as a fuel substitute.

Ethanol toxicity is seen more often in dogs than in cats, because dogs are more eager to please and so more easily persuaded to try something new or unusually.

REP is not a fan of corn ethanol, but we do support efforts to rely more on biofuels in the transportation sector.

The curent «ethanol from food» approach is going in the wrong direction by driving up the cost of food and creating more carbon emissions.

Renewable - fuel standard — Congress laid the foundation for this strange - bedfellow debate in 2013, and next year could bring more substantive action, depending on whether gasoline prices go up and how that affects ethanol prices.

Slate neglected to mention that the ethanol scam was correctly identified by innumerable scientists in the field for the fraud that it was for a long time before more august groups rubber stamped their research.