Sentences with phrase «of ethanol consumption»
First, restrictions on trade are not normally good, but the fact that much of ethanol consumption is due to the renewable fuel standard mandate (and not market forces) complicates things.
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Still another type of unrecorded alcohol is surrogate alcohol, which includes products that contain ethanol but also other alcohols (isopropanol, methanol) and are not intended for human consumption.
Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).
Schneider C, Thierauf A, Kempf J, Auwarter V. Ethanol concentration in breastmilk after the consumption of non-alcoholic beer.
There are very few things that are subsidized in the US, the biggest of which is probably ethanol, but that is for US consumption.
With a serious new push, they say, ethanol could displace 30 percent of domestic gasoline consumption within 25 years.
To date, no study has shown a transgenerational effect of prenatal ethanol exposure on ethanol consumption in the second or third generation.
Renewable energy, such as from photovoltaic electricity and ethanol, today supplies less than 7 percent of U.S. consumption.
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.
«Data collected from our study found that pindolol diminishes ethanol intake in animal models of binge - alcohol consumption.
By using a combination of crop growth, hydrological, carbon and nitrogen cycle models, researchers found that the estimated land suitable for bioenergy grasses — particularly Miscanthus, the most productive bioenergy crop — is limited, despite its relatively high biomass productivity and low water consumption per unit of ethanol.
However, if the circuits were strongly used, in this case via consumption of ethanol, alterations to neurons were noticeable and the dopamine response to alcohol was blunted.
Striatal modulation of BDNF expression using microRNA124a - expressing lentiviral vectors impairs ethanol - induced conditioned - place preference and voluntary alcohol consumption.
The Effect of Differential Rearing Conditions on the Consumption of and Operant Responding for Ethanol in the Indiana University Selectively Bred Alcohol - preferring (p) and - non - Preferring (np) Rat Lines
Oxygen consumption in the presence of ethanol is increased by fructose more than glucose (Thieden and Lundquist, 1967).
Excessive ethanol consumption is a well - known cause of fatty liver.
The fitness industry has long had a negative stance on alcohol consumption due to its lack of nutrition (empty calories) and ethanol content, the toxic metabolic by - product that can cause damage to your liver and inhibit essential nutrient absorption like amino acids and B vitamins, while also impeding upon muscle protein synthesis.
The response of the liver to the availability of surplus 2 - carbon units after ethanol consumption is in many ways analogous to the hepatic response to carbohydrate overfeeding (39).
You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.
The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)
Similarly, Minnesota's ethanol program has displaced 10 percent of gasoline consumption with ethanol.
High ethanol blended fuels, like E85, are not viable solutions for reaching renewable fuel consumption targets of the RFS, even if cellulosic standards are waived.
By comparison The US oil consumption increased by 137.6 million barrels from 6851.4 mmbbls in 2009 to 6989.0 mmbbls in 2010 so this ethanol production did not stop the increase in US oil consumption and only served to raise the price of corn through government subsidies affecting only the poor.
The Trump decision to permit year - round 15 - per - cent blends may be a shell game of another kind, since it's expected to be coupled with a transfer of ethanol subsidies from U.S. domestic consumption to exports, a move that could decimate ethanol use in the U.S..
All they know is that: some star appears warbling; could be because of mirage, or too much ethanol or weed consumption; or both.
Ironically, using CAFE to decrease consumption while increasing the ethanol mandate will also have a significant impact on how much bang consumers get for their buck at the pump in terms of gas mileage.
If imports of sugarcane ethanol are merely going to cut down on corn ethanol consumption / production, then it seems that the removal of the trade barrier would be a neutral / good thing.
U.S. consumption of corn to supply domestic ethanol production created a global corn frenzy which drove up prices and spurred expansion of croplands around the planet.
In the USA today, ethanol is mandated to up to 10 % of gasoline motor fuel; 13 billion gallons / year ethanol are replacing 10 billon gallons / year octane equivalent gasoline (out of a total consumption of around 140 billion gallons / year).
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This study shows Brazilian sugarcane ethanol could displace up to 13 % of global crude oil consumption by 2045 whilst balancing forest conservation and future land demand for food.
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.
Our analysis of the three major models used to set government policies in the United States and Europe suggests that ethanol policies in effect are relying on decreases in food consumption to generate GHG savings (1).
But what does declining gasoline consumption imply about the percentage of ethanol in the blend pool?
When the 2007 ethanol mandates were passed, lawmakers were looking at forecasts of rising gasoline consumption out to 2022 and beyond.
The 2007 ethanol mandates called for the consumption of ethanol to rise from 0.6 MMB / D to 2.35 MMB / D by 2022 (left scale on Fig. 1).
Proposed causes such as shortages of grain due to adverse weather, increasing meat consumption in China and India, conversion of corn to ethanol in the US, and investor speculation on commodity markets lead to widely differing implications for policy.
Jacques Diouf, its head, reserved most of his reprobation for the U.S.'s billions of corn ethanol subsidies (roughly $ 12b in 2006), which he said were depriving developing countries of food, reports The Guardian's Julian Borger.He accused the U.S. of diverting close to 100 million tons of cereals from human consumption to «satisfy a thirst for fuel for vehicles.»
«pasture and range land, 587 million acres (25.9 percent); cropland, 442 million acres» http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB14/ 442 million acres of cropland would yield 177 billion gallons of ethanol (at 400 gallons of EtOH / acre), compared to the current consumption of gasoline of ~ 140 billion gallons.
The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels.
For perspective, the estimated 114 million tons of grain used to produce ethanol in 2009 in the United States is the food supply for 370 million people at average world grain consumption levels.
«Even if we used all of our corn to make ethanol, with nothing left for food or animal feed, we could only displace perhaps 1.5 million barrels per day of this demand [U.S. consumption is 21 million barrels per day].
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.
The level of gasoline consumption limits the amount of ethanol that may be used in the gasoline pool at any fixed blending level, such as the 10 % ethanol blend (E10) that is predominant in the current U.S. gasoline supply.