Sentences with phrase «not on biofuels»

Leading agricultural exporter Argentina has added another major incentive to the booming biofuel industry by increasing the export tax on soybeans, soy - based products, and corn, but not on biofuels, according to analysts.

Not exact matches

But when oil companies (and governments) talk about oil supply, they include all sorts of things that can not be sold as oil on the world market including biofuels, refinery gains and natural gas plant liquids as well as lease condensate.

Examples of aeroplanes running on biofuels and so on allow that the new runway need not have the devastating environmental impact that critics of the scheme claim it will.

In the at - times pointed interview, Catsimatidis insisted repeatedly he did not have the biofuel - related legislation on his mind when the Cuomo's office reached out to ask for the plane.

Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could help make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

The race is on to create a biofuel that effectively sucks carbon out of the sky and locks it away where it can't warm the planet, says Bob Holmes

It's not just what goes on inside a bacterium that's interesting for researchers; bacterial colony structures may have properties that are useful for biofuel production.

Joshua Gallaway, a chemical engineer of Columbia University who was not affiliated with the study, says this type of work is critical because of biofuel's potential to reduce America's carbon footprint and its dependency on non-renewable fossil fuels.

«But we believe we should be making biofuels and replacing petroleum, and it's not good policy in our mind to only worry about fuel supplies based on the price of oil.

Right now, indirect land use related to biofuels isn't included in proposed climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate, as well as proposed agreements that will be on the table in Copenhagen.

These models are nearly all designed to estimate biofuels» effects on prices over the long term, after farmers have ample time to plow up and plant more land, and do not speak to prices in the shorter term.

We didn't want to see the trouble brewing as rocketing populations and increasing demand for biofuels put a strain on farmland and water supplies.

On paper, making biofuels from switchgrass and other perennials that need not be replanted seems like a no - brainer.

Do - it - yourselfers who don't want to depend on the oil companies have gone to elaborate lengths to run their old cars on biofuels, often by processing used vegetable oil salvaged from restaurant deep fryers and storing the result in a tank in the garage.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

ANOTHER VIEW Bruce Dale, a biofuels researcher at MichiganState University, says there is a huge amount of uncertainty whenbasing predictions on an inherently complex economic model.Additionally, he asserts that the United States should not beresponsible for «anything but its own environmental profile» and thatto take into account world land changes is unreasonable.

They add that the military is a vital customer, not only because it is one of the biggest users of fuel on the planet, but also because it tends to purchase goods on long - term contracts, which gives investors confidence that the biofuels market will be stable for years to come.

However, he does not consider the indirect impact of biofuels on the forest.

What if biofuel crops could be grown on marginal land that wouldn't be suitable for food crops anyway?

«When we looked on Google Earth, could see immediately that there are areas where clearly the land is not available for biofuel production,» said See.

The Agera S is powered by the same 5.0 - litre twin - turbo V8 as the Agera R, however, this version has been tuned to run on more readily - available unleaded petrol, in countries where E85 or more potent E100 biofuel isn't available.

Maybe the next R500 will run on biofuel like the Koenigsegg CCRX (I'm bloody sure it won't be a diesel), but I'm certain that there will be another R500, and for that we should all be grateful.

The first Bentley capable of running on both petrol (gasoline) and biofuel (E85 ethanol), its 6.0 litre W12 engine is rated 630 PS (463 kW; 621 bhp) at 6,000 rpm and 800 N ⋅ m (590 lbf ⋅ ft) at 1,700 - 5,600 rpm - using either fuel.

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

Anyway, «positivity» about embracing change and becoming environmentally responsible is not the brainchild of this centrist niche... talk to the hippies running their cars on biofuel decades ago.

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

The wish list goes on: new ways to tap previously inaccessible reservoirs of geothermal energy, biofuels that don't compete with food crops, and ultra-efficient equipment to heat and cool buildings.

Moreover, we now learn that not only are biofuels land and water using, but they are very energy - using on a life cycle basis, and are emission - generating if the energy inputs are fossil - based and / or if their expansion requires changes in land - use.

If you follow biofuel news on TreeHugger you've probably read about ethanol manufacturers not having an easy time of it in the past six months.

In Brazil, fossil fuels are not part of biofuel production, while in the U.S., corn ethanol production relies heavily on fossil fuels.

But as things stand, while there are many people working on next - generation biofuels that could meet the criteria above, the vast majority of the biofuels made in the U.S. are not particularly green.

For more details on why biofuels are not a good way to harvest the sun's energy, check out this post, which explains the math from Nobel - Winning photosynthesis expert Hartmut Michel.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

«EPA's mandate is out of touch with reality and forces refiners to pay a penalty for not using imaginary biofuels,» Bob Greco, API's downstream and industry operations director, said on May 25.

We shouldn't put the taxpayer on the hook for broken promises, and we should create a more level playing field for advanced biofuels.

That said, Cool Planet is primarily a biofuel play, so any potential failure might not reflect entirely on the biochar field.

There are currently no safeguards in UK or EU policy for dealing with the impact of biofuels on food security (see our story of 31 January, Biofuels needn't cause hunger) and deforestation (see our story of 30 January, Tropical peatlands «haemorrhage» fossil carbon)..

This fossil is for the 36 ICAO Council countries that won't show us their homework on the offsets and biofuels they plan to use.

A third scientist, Barney Foran, said the Prime Minister's Department had asked him not to say anything about ethanol as part of broader work on biofuels he was undertaking.

And greenhouse emissions are down, but not much on account of biofuels.

That includes a renewed emphasis on nuclear, but we can not ignore the contributions that hydropower, solar and to a lesser extent wind, geothermal and biofuels can play.

«We're not saying that biofuels are a bad idea,» added Jonathan Foley, a co-author on the study and a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

This «education» takes many forms: from blatant propaganda, like the UK government's  # 6 million «drowning puppy» ad campaign, the Obama administration's recent Climate Assessment Report and the one released by a group of compliant senior US military figures calling themselves CNA Military Advisory Board, to more subtle brainwashing ranging from school trips to wind farms and ice cream containers with pictures of wind farms on the side and oil company adverts illustrated with wind farms (to show they're not just «all about oil») to, well, pretty much everything these days from supermarket delivery vehicles boasting about how much biofuel they use to Greenpeace campaign ads involving polar bears to Roger Harrabin's reporting for the BBC to Showtime's Years Of Living Dangerously...

Despite extrapolating from current realities, it felt much like an update of a 1950s «tomorrow world» public service short: the reader is invited to imagine a home with solar panels AND «several» wind turbines on the roof, not to mention a biofuel system which powers one of your cars on ethanol brewed from the wastes automatically collected from your family's food scraps... Gee whiz!

However, the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) hopes to begin certifying environmentally friendly biofuels that don't compete with food production or water sources.

Additionally, the EIA said half of the facilities on the EPA's list won't produce biofuels next year.

We now hear from the IPCC wise ones that biofuels are not such a good thing: «Its previous assessment on climate change, in 2007, was widely condemned by environmentalists for giving the green light to large - scale biofuel production.

This colossal global biofuels industry exists only because resource depletion and climate Armageddon ideologies do not die easily — and because politicians lavish government mandates and billions of dollars in taxpayer and consumer subsidies on firms that have persuasive lobbyists and reliable track records for channeling millions of those dollars back to the politicians who keep the racket going.