Sentences with phrase «more ethanol 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.

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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.

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.

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.

«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.»

Studies have shown that using fuels composed of more than 85 percent ethanol reduce a variety of air pollutants.

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.

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

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.

This means that switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn - based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have developed a catalyst that easily converts bio-based ethanol to a widely used industrial chemical, paving the way for more environmentally friendly, bio-based plastics and products.

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).

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

The e-NV200 test mule uses 100 % ethanol to charge a 24kWh battery, offering a driving range of more than 600 km.

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.

Brazil is renowned for being a world leader in ethanol use and this telling statistic bears that out: According to Petrobras CFO Almir Barbassa ethanol now powers more than 50 % of all the light vehicles in the nation.

The greens, hawks, and farmers helped convince the Senate to add an ethanol provision to the energy bill — now awaiting action by a House - Senate conference committee — that would require refiners to more than double their use of ethanol to 8 billion gallons per year by 2012.

The latter would mean, for example, using less corn and more switchgrass to produce fuel ethanol.

The researchers found that using biomass to produce electricity for electric vehicles would produce 81 percent more transportation miles than using the same amount of crops to produce ethanol.

The method would also reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than turning the crops into ethanol and using that ethanol in vehicles with internal combustion engines.

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.

However, more and more people have also come to see the shortcomings of corn ethanol — including its impact on land use and food supplies.

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.

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

In fact, using any fuel that contains more than 10 percent ethanol is illegal to use in outdoor power equipment.

Use a fuel stabilizer if the engine will sit for more than a few weeks without use; this will reduce the ethanol — water separation and potential gumming issuUse a fuel stabilizer if the engine will sit for more than a few weeks without use; this will reduce the ethanol — water separation and potential gumming issuuse; this will reduce the ethanol — water separation and potential gumming issues.

This means you must fill your gas tank more frequently when using higher ethanol blended fuel.»

If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.

Ethanol more energy - efficient than oil, finds study: Using ethanol — alcohol produced from corn or other plants — instead of gasoline is more energy - efficient that oil say researchers at the University of California, BeEthanol more energy - efficient than oil, finds study: Using ethanol — alcohol produced from corn or other plants — instead of gasoline is more energy - efficient that oil say researchers at the University of California, Beethanol — alcohol produced from corn or other plants — instead of gasoline is more energy - efficient that oil say researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

The US has now crossed the point where more corn is being used for ethanol production than for feeding people producing 206.5 million barrels of ethanol in 2010.

Democrats are still drafting the energy package, which also will include a boost in automobile fuel efficiency standards and requirements to use more renewable fuel sources like ethanol.

Although ethanol can be produced from any plant, it is much more efficient and much less costly to use sugar - and starch - bearing crops.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

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).

Part of the reason switchgrass ethanol is more energy efficient is that the whole plant is used.

In fact, over the entire life cycle of growing and harvesting crops, turning them into fuel, transporting and using them in vehicles, ethanol and biodiesel emit as much CO2 as petroleum — and require infinitely more acreage.

They're fair salivating at the thought of finding the next big thing to pour all that central bankers» funny money into, now they've lost interest in the other outlets for it all (barring commodities of course) What they don't use to speculate in permits like taxi plates, they'll pour into places like ET to grow ethanol and claim more brownie points to boot.

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.

Using ethanol in my truck had such a decrease in performance that I actually consumed more oil derived gas than I would have using straight unleUsing ethanol in my truck had such a decrease in performance that I actually consumed more oil derived gas than I would have using straight unleusing straight unleaded.

There are more emissions from the total Corn Ethanol production sequence and use as an alternative and additive to fossil fuels than if ordinary fossil originated fuels were just used to do the job.

The new Nanjing Tech process uses acetoin — a novel C4 platform molecule derived from new ABE (acetoin — butanol — ethanol)- type fermentation via metabolic engineering — as a bio-based building block for the production of the... Read more →

• Ethanol production using wood biomass required 57 % more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel prEthanol production using wood biomass required 57 % more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel prethanol fuel produced.

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).

• Ethanol production using switchgrass required 50 % more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel prEthanol production using switchgrass required 50 % more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel prethanol fuel produced.

Researchers found that burning biomass to produce electricity for electric vehicles would produce 81 percent more transportation miles than using the same crops to produce ethanol.

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.

General Motors will help lead a joint demonstration project along with the state of California, Chevron Technology Ventures, and Pacific Ethanol to learn more about consumer awareness and acceptance of E85 as a motor vehicle fuel by demonstrating its use in GM's flexible - fuel vehicles.

converting all gasoline using vehicles to 100 % corn - based ethanol would require almost 7x the current acreage in corn, and 30 % more than the current total cropland of the US.»