Sentences with phrase «on biofuels»

Do they think of a minority woman working on biofuels?

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

«If we're going to rely on biofuels as a significant part of a diverse portfolio of renewable technology,» then harvesting trees is the best way to go, he said.

I question the later, considering recent announcements regarding concentrating on biofuels over past involvement in, but that's that.

It's one thing to design a car that runs solely on biofuels; it's another thing entirely to design one that is also made out of biomass.

While that study was by no means definitive, those numbers have already fed into policy discussions and investment decisions on biofuels.

But I fear that we are too heavily counting on biofuels to deliver.

Now, its obviously unfair to blame this entirely on biofuels.

Transportation policies that favor electric vehicles or even self - driving cars, for example, could someday lower emissions; in the energy sector, an increased focus on biofuels or hydrogen production could do the same; and in agriculture, slow release fertilizers could reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

IIASA researchers say that the new study is one more step towards better defining global land cover - vital data for informing policies on biofuels production and land use.

Biofuelwatch has important new reports on biofuel in Africa including: «Profit at any Cost: A battle between big business and sustainable lifestyles - Northern Ghana».

The current bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research program to deemphasize climate research in favor of biological research, prevents DOE and the Defense Department from collaborating on biofuels production, and strips emissions reduction from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) mission.

«Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock.»

Davis had been working on biofuels at a company in the same office park when he got a call from Brown five years ago.

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).

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?

With the current renewed emphasis on biofuels, Foust's team is poised to get $ 27.5 million in 2007, a touch more than it spent in 2004.

With his research, Gnansounou hopes to bring a scientific perspective to the political and economic debate on biofuels.

«There can be disadvantages to being first,» says Robert Brown, a mechanical engineer at Iowa State University who works on biofuel development.

In short, an increased reliance on biofuel trades an oil problem for a water problem... Now it seems that other requirements of biofuel manufacture can place an even greater strain on limited water supplies.

New Solar Impulse challenge on the horizon Several commercial air carriers, including Lufthansa, Alaska Air and United Airlines, are also reducing their carbon footprints by developing and testing their planes on biofuels.

Andy, you have given many openings for topics other than climate change and today's post on biofuels and yesterday's on earthquakes and schools certainly gets off the main thread.

*** [1] What the EU has agreed: • A limit on biofuels from agricultural crops at 7 % of EU transport energy — with an option for member states to go lower.

The EU's long - awaited move to put the brakes on biofuels is a clear signal to the rest of the world that this is a false solution to the climate crisis.

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.

A U.K. publishing company used data from EPI and other sources to produce a global wall chart showing a variety of information on biofuels.

In a push toward greener fuels, the Air Force has modified some of these jets to fly on a biofuel derived from camelina, a relative of the mustard plant.

In São Paulo, a city with 7 million motor vehicles and the largest urban fleet of flexible - fuel cars, it would be feasible to run all buses on biofuel.

The more a decarbonisation pathway relies on biofuels production, the deployment of concentrating solar power, carbon capture or nuclear power, the more water it consumes.

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.

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

To discuss these issues, Insider conducted an e-mail conversation with Searchinger and John Sheehan, an expert on biofuels at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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.

Sources say the subsection on biofuels was a particularly divisive part of the IPCC report, with optimistic scientists and renewable fuel - focused countries pushing to highlight the benefits of replacing petroleum fuels with plant - based alternatives, and others pushing to include the negative aspects.

So far, so good: The test pilot's verdict on the biofuel mix was a big thumbs - up.

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.

If we became dependent on biofuel / biodiesel, what would happen if we had massive crop failures due to GW?

The influence of pectin on biofuel production largely has been ignored, according to the paper's first author, Ajaya Biswal, assistant research scientist at the CCRC.

... There is a clear need to reach consensus on how to carry out LCAs on biofuels, driven by national and international legislation which include GHG emission reduction goals.

By 2012 the entire Bentley fleet should be capable of running on renewable fuel through the introduction of flexFuel technology with engines capable of running seamlessly on biofuel, petrol or any mix of the these.

Two winery tours are offered here — both offering a behind - the - scenes look at production and a tasting; we prefer the Tram Tour, which includes a ride through the vineyards on a biofueled tractor - pulled cart.