Sentences with phrase «much as ethanol»

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In response, the Asian giant proposed fresh duties on as much as $ 3 billion of U.S. products, including wine, fruits, nuts, ethanol and steel pipes.

An acre of switchgrass can produce more than twice as much ethanol as an acre of corn.

19 Sure enough, astronomers found vast quantities of ethanol — as much as that in 400 trillion trillion beers — in G34.3, an interstellar cloud some 10,000 light - years from Earth.

They then dipped lengths of electric cable into solutions of the chemicals dissolved in ethanol, and checked whether caged mice gnawed these as much as they did cable dipped in ethanol alone.

This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop.

Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the United States in 2008, twice as much as in 2006.

Atalla finds that briefly soaking corn stover (the leftover parts of the plant, such as husks) in a solution of sodium hydroxide, ethanol, and water changes the molecular structure of the cellulose, allowing him to convert nearly twice as much of it as is possible with existing methods.

The researchers mixed the CFC with four times as much ethanol by volume, evaporated the solution, and passed the vapour through the column of catalyst.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

«Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn ethanol from switchgrass and corn stover.

Much of the research has focused on microorganisms capable of immobilizing contaminants, such as uranium, after introducing organic carbon compounds, such as acetate, lactate and ethanol.

Yes, the drivers of ethanol, soy and cattle are well documented, but as is our habit, we tempt much worse:

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

E85 today is primarily made with grain - based ethanol that reduces carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 29 percent compared with pure gasoline.

I'm not sure how much she has but the ingredients are (ethanol / SD Alcohol, 40 1 ¿ 3 %; fluid that acts as sanitizer.

There's a final point to be raised about ethanol: It contains only about two - thirds as much energy as gasoline.

Other boosters, including Woolsey, claim there are huge energy gains (as much as 700 percent) to be had by making ethanol from grass.

Their findings showed a startling 218 - 990 million hectares of land would have to be converted to switchgrass (which is 14 - 65 times as much land as the US uses to grow corn for ethanol); also 17 - 79 million tonnes of fertiliser a year — which would be 75 % of all global nitrogen fertiliser used at present; and 1.6 - 7.4 trillion cubic metres of water a year.

Robert, the notion that western grain production feeds the third world is just as much a con job as the notion of ethanol from grain.

Trees may not take as much CO2 out of the air as corn plants do but they only have to take out less than half as much, since three to four times as much CO2 is in the whole corn plant as there is in the ethanol produced from it.

It does not release carbon that would otherwise stay stored underground, as occurs with fossil fuel use, but when starch, such as corn, is used for ethanol production much energy, including fossil - fuel energy, is consumed in the process of fertilizing, plowing, and harvesting.

Let's not forget ethanol is made from food crops such as corn and right now there's a drought in much of the Midwest, which is causing corn and other crop prices to rise.

«The biofuels researcher Timothy Searchinger has calculated that once the massive release of greenhouse gases cause by converting grassland and rainforest into cropland is taken into account, introduction of biofuels produces increases in greenhouse emissions, the size of the rise being as much as a doubling for corn ethanol production,» Montford tells us.

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.

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.

In summary, there is sufficient land zoned for sugar cane for Brazil to produce approximately 4 — 5 times as much ethanol than is produced today (˜6.2 billion gallons in 2008).

As I argue in my last book, No Rain in the Amazon: How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet, corn - based ethanol based in the American Midwest does not put much of a dent in our global warming problem.

The regular commentators must be consuming too much ethanol, reason they behave as zombies — keep repeating lots of crap

A study in Environmental Research Letters found that converting grasslands for ethanol production generated as much carbon emissions as 28 million cars.

Burning renewable fuels, such as ethanol, can reduce air pollutant emissions, but critics argue that gasoline blended with too much ethanol can interfere with emissions control systems in some automobiles and actually lead to higher emissions.

«Ethanol should be saving us twice as much oil as it is today because we are letting really big, inefficient flex - fuel vehicles on the road,» said Nathanael Greene, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Vanguard is designed to run on either pure gasoline or a mixture of gasoline and as much as 85 - percent ethanol.

More important, ethanol can not be transported by the existing pipeline network that covers the U.S., and transport by trains and trucks is very expensive and consumes much energy as well.

But if you want to argue «how much ethanol is really helping» as you put it, then a whole lot of other considerations have to come into the discussion.

The U.S. Department of Energy projects that cellulosic conversion technology could reduce the cost of producing ethanol by as much as 60 cents per gallon by 2015.