Sentences with phrase «more production of ethanol»

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A more realistic, if still optimistic, scenario sketched by the National Corn Growers Association anticipates that corn ethanol production will quadruple to 16 billion gallons by 2015, not quite 7 percent of the likely demand.

Since then, corn ethanol production has more than doubled to about 36.5 million gallons per day — meaning ethanol already is nearly 10 percent of U.S. fuel supply.

«It is possible that lignin could turn out to be more valuable than cellulose and could subsidize the production of ethanol from sustainable biomass.»

The 2015 Survey of Non-Starch Ethanol and Renewable Hydrocarbon Biofuels Producers provides an inventory of the domestic advanced biofuels production industry as of the end of calendar year 2015, documenting important... Read more →

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 →

«Since 2000, global wind energy generation has more than tripled; solar cell production has risen six-fold; production of fuel ethanol from crops have more than doubled; and biodiesel production has expanded nearly four-fold.

Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90 % or more.

The Midwest does not have the highest solar potential in the country (that is found in the Southwest), but its potential is nonetheless vast, with some parts of the Midwest having as good a solar resource as Florida.75 More than one - quarter of national installed wind energy capacity, one - third of biodiesel capacity, and more than two - thirds of ethanol production are located in the Midwest (see alsoMore than one - quarter of national installed wind energy capacity, one - third of biodiesel capacity, and more than two - thirds of ethanol production are located in the Midwest (see alsomore than two - thirds of ethanol production are located in the Midwest (see also Ch.

«One of our take - home messages is that conservation programs are currently a cheaper and more efficient greenhouse gas policy for taxpayers than corn - ethanol production,» said study leader and Duke biologist Robert Jackson.

But all of this is despite serious scientific concerns about biofuels, especially corn ethanol - whose production requires lots of land, and consumes lots of energy - some say more than the fuel itself produces.

Throw in more competition for these same crops due to an increase in ethanol production and you have a recipe for higher gas prices, higher food prices and even possibly shortages of one, the other, or both.

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.

Bloomberg Businessweek explains more clearly than EPA does why the agency had to back - peddle so furiously: «The Environmental Protection Agency proposed requiring less cellulosic ethanol to be blended into gasoline next year than sought under U.S. law because production of the alternative fuel hasn't reached commercial scale.»

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

This summer, expensive and rare corn has left 26 ethanol plants idle — some for more than a year — removing 1.5 billion gallons of production, according to the industry trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association.

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 →

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.

While industrial production of ethanol may not be the savior as it was once heralded, home distillers are willing to tap into a more parochial form of energy independence.

In years where we have a bumper crop of corn, and produce more than we need for feed, the market to distilleries will provide built in price supports; the DDGS from the other ethanol feedstocks will provide some cushion to food production in years when the corn crop is bad.

The expo will draw more than 40 college teams from all over the country to showcase the future of sustainable technology and will feature exhibits like generation of ethanol from coffee production wastewater and entrenching small glass spheres in house paint to deflect heat in the summer.

Indeed, an article in Popular Science cites a study by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University that predicts that U.S. ethanol production could consume more than half of corn, wheat and coarse grains by 2012, ratcheting up food prices and potentially causing massive shortages.

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.

Furthermore, whether the production of ethanol can be greatly expanded without causing more harmful secondary impacts is in doubt.

To meet some of the higher ethanol production goals would require more corn than the United States currently produces, if all of the envisioned ethanol was made from corn.

Does it matter whether there is a net energy loss in the production of corn - based ethanol --- that is, it takes more fossil fuel energy to produce ethanol than the ethanol itself produces?

There are a number of new approaches to producing corn - based ethanol, using more renewable energy in the production of ethanol (such as methane from waste products or wind energy).

The use of the renewable fuels in ethanol production will tend to give corn - based ethanol a more positive energy balance and will reduce the use of fossil fuels.

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 →

Ethanol Biofuel Feedstocks Gain a New Candidate: Kudzu Kudzu Harvesting for the Production of Ethanol, Redux Ethanol: How the Fuel is Produced, Growing Corn and Other Feedstocks, and More

The researchers conclude: «The energy discarded in wasted food is more than the energy available from many popular efficiency and energy procurement strategies, such as the annual production of ethanol from grains and annual petroleum available from drilling in the outer continental shelf,» and so minimizing wasted food means minimizing overall energy consumption.

With increased ethanol obligations and growing livestock operations needing more feed, Iowa — the nation's «king of corn production» — will have to import kernels to keep up with demand, an analyst tells the newspaper.

This has resulted in more land and resources being diverted from feed / food crops into ethanol crop production, essentially lowering the availability of all other feed / food crops.