Sentences with phrase «offsets than ethanol»
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.
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«We found that with a given amount of biomass you could produce more transportation and greenhouse gas offsets with electricity than with ethanol.»
J. E. Campbell, D. B. Lobell, and C. B. Field, «Greater Transportation Energy and GHG Offsets from Bioelectricity than Ethanol,» Science, vol.
Supporters of domestic ethanol call it a cleaner - burning fuel than gasoline that offsets oil imports from autocratic regimes abroad and creates American jobs.
Across vehicle types and different crops, this offset averages more than 100 % larger for the bioelectricity than for the ethanol pathway.