Sentences with phrase «of more ethanol»

The RFS is forcing the use of more ethanol than the overall fuel supply can safely absorb — and in the process saddling refiners with using a fuel (cellulosic biofuel) that barely exists commercially.

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So while social responsibility was reason enough for me to seek higher percentage blends of ethanol gas, what resonated even more with me is the fact that ethanol is an entrepreneur's industry.

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

As an example, if oil is high, $ KORN will rise as ethanol becomes more desired as an alternative source of fuel.

The industry has hundreds of large factories in the region, with products of tapioca starch and derivatives including sweeteners, modified starches, and, more recently, fuel ethanol.

Vodka's composition is almost evenly split between water and ethanol (to be exact, it is about 60 % water and 40 % ethanol) When you add it to any dough, it means that only a bit more than half of it (60 %) is active in gluten development.

New machinery developed by Biorefining Inc. in Minnesota precisely breaks kernels into their constituent elements, which may convert more of the starch into ethanol at a lower cost, while also freeing up more of the valuable coproducts like corn oil.

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

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.

What's more, even small amounts of ethanol stalled the growth of microbial «weeds» that crowd out the beetles» food source, like the fungus Penicillium.

The Northern Territories of Australia levied a tax on alcohol with more than three per cent ethanol, which led to greater availability of lower - strength beer.

Outwardly, the way ethanol is made has not changed much, but each step of the process has grown markedly more efficient, beginning with the farmers.

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.

«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.»

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.

Currently more than 40 per cent of the US corn crop goes into producing ethanol, which is mostly mixed with gasoline to fuel conventional cars.

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.

For cellulosic to make its way onto the market, federal policy will need to do more to encourage distribution of higher blends of ethanol, the ethanol industry says.

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

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.

«We found that with a given amount of biomass you could produce more transportation and greenhouse gas offsets with electricity than with ethanol.»

At MIT, scientists have engineered a new yeast strain that can survive in high levels of sugar and ethanol, producing 50 percent more ethanol than its natural cousins.

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

The researchers conducted more than 60 experiments in which about 3.5 ounces of saline or ethanol solutions representing the planetary projectile that hit Earth was dropped into a rectangular tank holding about six gallons of fluid representing the early Earth.

The company can produce more than 100 gallons of fuel per ton based on lab experiments because bacteria make more ethanol: «We aren't producing butanol, propanol, hexanol, octanol, and all the other alcohols,» Bolsen says.

However, more than 10 billion gallons of ethanol will be transported and blended in 2009, and the earlier limitations in ethanol distribution and blending are no longer the major factor in the growth of the industry.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

The U.S. Department of Energy has provided more than $ 1 billion in federal funds to support research to develop cellulosic biofuels, including ethanol made from corn stover.

They contain more energy per volume; a car driving on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a car on a gallon of gasoline; on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.

If DMF does pass that test, however, it could be available shortly and cost no more (and potentially less, depending on the utility of side products like HMF) than ethanol.

Biologists know that compared with flies from tropical Africa, flies from temperate regions such as Europe survive longer when exposed to ethanol vapors of high concentrations, and they know it has something to do with enzymes on the flies» second chromosomes, which break down alcohol and are more active in European flies.

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Regular drinkers of ethanol — the type of alcohol found in frosty malted beverages — eventually require more and more drinks to feel tipsy.

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.

Here, where the molecules are close to each other, they bond together to form more complex molecules like methanol, ethanol, simple sugars, etc. and water in the form of ice.

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 →

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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 →

They grow more of the green parts of the plant, which can be converted chemically to make fuel, including ethanol and electricity.

Indeed, what makes corn ethanol «renewable» — in the sense that we can always make more of it by planting more kernels — is actually a huge part of what makes it so unsustainable in the long term.

Second, they're renewable — in the case of ethanol, you just grow more corn.

Afterwards, the supernatant was removed by a short spin of the plate bottom up at no more than 9 × g. To wash the pellet, 50 µl of 70 % ethanol was pipetted into each well and again the plate was spun bottom up at no more than 9 × g for 5 — 10 sec.

Oxygen consumption in the presence of ethanol is increased by fructose more than glucose (Thieden and Lundquist, 1967).

So, 18 mL X 3 beers, is a recommendation of no more than 54 mL of ethanol daily.

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It's said that ethanol is capable of more power than gasoline in an engine exclusively designed for it.

It takes something like seven percent more energy to create a gallon of ethanol than that gallon even contains.

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