Sentences with phrase «on biofuel for»

There is one problem with that: If we can make enough clean electricity (via solar or something else) to produce hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles, why not use that electricity directly in electric vehicles or plug - in hybrids with extremely long battery range, and an internal combustion engine that runs on biofuel for extended trips?

UN Food and Agriculture Organization on biofuel for vehicles in Europe, «Food Outlook, Global Market Analysis,» June 2006

-- UN Food and Agriculture Organization on biofuel for vehicles in Europe, «Food Outlook, Global Market Analysis,» June 2006

Now we hear that Air New Zealand, whose previous efforts on biofuels for aviation have already caught our attention, has set a goal of using one million barrels of «environmentally sustainable» fuel annually by 2013.

Not exact matches

«On average, the amount of water required to produce one liter of biofuel is the same amount that's required to produce food for a person for one day,» he said, adding that the problem with first generation biofuels was that they were competing with food production systems in terms of water and land.

Codexis (No. 924 on Inc.'s 2009 5000), a Redwood City company that crafts designer enzymes for biofuel production, filed its IPO documents in late December.

But its focus on transparency — making sure people know how and why data will flow if they choose to click «I agree» — combined with supersized fines for major data violations represents something of an existential threat to ad tech processes that rely on pervasive background harvesting of users» personal data to be siphoned biofuel for their vast, proprietary microtargeting engines.

Soybeans gained on speculation that government measures to revive economies may bolster demand for food, animal feed and biofuels.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

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Now, that intern reflects on why the mayor tried so hard to keep secret emails that turned out to be innocuous In November 2010, I was earning $ 300 a week for The Village Voice, blogging about unemployed actors who moonlit as bed bug exterminators and a city project to make biofuel out of toilet water.

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.

CRUZ RALLIES FOR BIOFUELS — Reuters» Jarrett Renshaw: «Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump's administration to push for an overhaul of the nation's biofuels policy, during a rally at a Pennsylvania oil refinery that blames its bankruptcy on the controversial regulation.&raqFOR BIOFUELS — Reuters» Jarrett Renshaw: «Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump's administration to push for an overhaul of the nation's biofuels policy, during a rally at a Pennsylvania oil refinery that blames its bankruptcy on the controversial regulationBIOFUELS — Reuters» Jarrett Renshaw: «Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump's administration to push for an overhaul of the nation's biofuels policy, during a rally at a Pennsylvania oil refinery that blames its bankruptcy on the controversial regulation.&raqfor an overhaul of the nation's biofuels policy, during a rally at a Pennsylvania oil refinery that blames its bankruptcy on the controversial regulationbiofuels policy, during a rally at a Pennsylvania oil refinery that blames its bankruptcy on the controversial regulation.»

Federal investigators have issued subpoenas for information on Carl Icahn's efforts to change biofuel policy while serving as an informal adviser to Trump, according to regulatory filings.

Projects have included developing diagnostic tools for the Zika virus, programming autonomous robots, attempting to develop biofuels, and identifying wine varieties based on their chemical makeup.

But whether biofuels emit more or less CO2 than gasoline depends on what the land they were grown on was previously used for, both studies show.

The studies do find some benefit from biofuels but only when planted on agricultural land too dry or degraded for food production or significant tree or plant growth and only when derived from native plants, such as a mix of prairie grasses in the U.S. Midwest.

The biofuel lobby will win big by delaying rules on «indirect land - use change» for six years, but the National Academy of Sciences may now study the issue

Lawmakers from Midwestern states also asked about his views on biofuels, an important market for corn growers.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

We're now looking at the world of biology and asking how to use our tools to make a more sustainable world with a focus on biofuels and renewable materials, for example.»

That means that it's hard for some of these kinds of biofuels to get a purchase on the market, so that's going [to] be a different part of the challenge, and that [is] obviously going to be a shifting target.

Security hawks have stepped up their rhetoric during this election year to push for more hybrid cars and biofuels, and for billions in new research to reduce the country's dangerous dependence on foreign petroleum.

«Biofuel production also shows promise for directly offsetting some reliance on fossil fuels,» says Stephen Ogle, an ecosystem research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

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.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

The Environmental Protection Agency will propose, later on Friday, a new federal target for U.S. biofuel use in 2014, attempting to prevent a projected fuel - blending crunch next year.

«It's big, big money, it's a long - term commitment, all of that scares the horses,» says physicist Graeme Sweeney, chairman of an advisory council for the E.U. on CCS, reflecting on the U.K.'s recent decision to drop financial support for CCS paired in part with biofuels at the White Rose project in Yorkshire.

Supporters of the renewable fuels industry turned out en masse on Thursday, desperate for the U.S. government to change course after last month announcing a plan to lower the amount of biofuels that must be added to the fuel supply in 2014.

For Woodford, who moved his family from Minnesota to Iowa to sell equipment and work on Project Liberty, the focus is getting farmers and equipment company engineers ready for the biofuel boFor Woodford, who moved his family from Minnesota to Iowa to sell equipment and work on Project Liberty, the focus is getting farmers and equipment company engineers ready for the biofuel bofor the biofuel boom.

Schroeder is also co-director of a new research entity at UC San Diego called «Food and Fuel for the 21st Century,» which is designed to apply basic research on plants to sustainable food and biofuel production.

This kind of efficiency could reduce GHG emissions in the U.S. alone «in the neighborhood of 300 million metric tons on an annual basis,» McCarl says, «principally from burning biofuels for electricity and [from] forest management.»

The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $ 786 million into new ways to convert corn, wood, grass, and municipal waste into fuel for America's cars.

Indirect land - use change, ILUC for short, accounts for the impacts of rising biofuel demand and grain prices on cropland around the world.

The model, built on more than three decades of research led by Vincent Chiang of the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University, will speed the process of engineering trees for specific needs in timber, biofuel, pulp, paper and green chemistry applications.

Since 2003, Discover has been reporting on a biofuel company that turned turkey guts, garbage and old tires into oil, which it sold to refineries for vehicle fuel or to electrical utilities to help power generators («Anything Into Oil,» May 2003).

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.

The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the trade group for sugar - cane ethanol from Brazil, criticized the IPCC for raising alarm on biofuels in the Working Group II report published on March 31.

A weedy plant found on the roadside in northern Australia has stems ripe for biofuel production.

For example, the metabolically engineered microbes that are sometimes used to produce biofuels and chemicals are currently subject to genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations, while the molecules they produce are subject to chemical regulations such as the Toxic Substances Control Act in the United States and the regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) in Europe.

Another candidate for a trim might be the biological and environmental research (BER) program, which supports, among other things, DOE's work on advanced biofuels and climate research.

Virgin Atlantic has flown a jumbo jet on a combination of conventional jet fuel and biofuel made from palm oil, and a jet powered solely by biodiesel has stayed aloft for more than 30 minutes — albeit with a special device to keep its fuel from freezing at high altitude.

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.

«I've worked on offshore wind projects, biofuel projects and renewable - energy strategies for sites, companies and even whole countries.»

* $ 1 billion for research on biofuels and another $ 1 billion to support high - quality biomedical research.

Scientific analysis of diatom oil has shown that it is very suitable for use as biofuel, says T. V. Ramachandra, a professor of ecological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here who is working on this project with IISc researchers Durga Mahapatra and Karthick Balasubramanian, along with Richard Gordon, a radiology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg.

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.

Those benefits, however, are complicated by the need for vast amounts of land to produce cellulosic biofuels on a large scale.

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.

Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, responded that the military's biofuels effort is imperative for national security to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.