Sentences with phrase «on biofuels production»

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.

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.

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.

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.

The investment in truly clean and green energy production such as wind, solar, and biofuels, and offering incentives to encourage Smart Energy use by consumers would drastically reduce our contributions to global warming and reduce our dependency on nuclear power.

While at UT, David was a researcher in the Webber Energy Group, where his research focused on advanced biofuel production to offset petroleum use in the transportation sector.

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.

Concerns have been raised that diverting significant portions of crops, such as corn, to biofuel production could have a negative impact on availability and cost of the food supply.

«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.

«The most sensible thing to do in Finland is to integrate cultivation into industrial processes with spill heat and to integration into industrial processes with spill heat and focus development on the production of biofuels and biochemical compounds, and on nutrient removal from effluents.

To this end, it offers a comprehensive overview of recent advances on promising algal biofuels production pathways, in terms of technological development, opportunities and limitations.

And unlike other biofuel feedstocks, algae production has minimal impact on freshwater supplies — especially when it can be undertaken in ocean waters or even wastewater.

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.

But if biofuels genuinely capture carbon beyond what was being captured on the land before the land was put into biofuels production, then there is a net savings.

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

They've demonstrated how to design and genetically engineer enzyme surfaces so they bind less to corn stalks and other cellulosic biomass, reducing enzyme costs in biofuels production, according to a study published this month on the cover of the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Just as in algae biofuel production on land, the floating OMEGA bags use water, solar energy and carbon dioxide — which in this case is absorbed through the plastic membrane — to produce sugar that algae metabolize into lipids.

Though the study has clear implications for cellulosic, or second - generation, biofuel production in the Midwest, Hamilton says it touches more broadly on some of the expected effects of climate change as well.

Because removing oxygen is crucial for biofuel production, the team focused on how water interferes with two oxygen - removal paths driven by a zeolite catalyst.

There has been concerns about diverting significant portions of crops, including corn, to biofuel production because it may have a negative impact on the availability and cost of the food supply.

Research in this program involves work with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management.

«When we looked on Google Earth, could see immediately that there are areas where clearly the land is not available for biofuel production,» said See.

«This joint effort between USDA and DOE will help accelerate research in the critical area of plant feed stocks, which hold one key to making biofuels production both cost effective and sustainable on a national scale,» said Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a statement.

January 31, 2014 - German auto company Audi has entered a partnership with Global Bioenergies to continue work on a new biofuels technology that they hope could make synthetic production of gasoline a viable alternative to extracting it from the Earth.

DOE's Bioenergy Research Centers support multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams pursuing the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to make production of cellulosic biofuels, or biofuels from nonfood plant fiber, cost - effective on a national scale.

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

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.

Peter Fend, Olya: An Algae / Plastic Harvesting and Biofuel Production Submarine based on a Russian Nuclear - Missile Submarine Design, 2015.

I have proposed that we develop the process of pyrolysis to be used on organic wastes to cut the reemitting of GHGs from the wastes that are basically a biofuels crop wasted that usurp no land or water from food production.

No, in the US, decreasing our dependence on foreign oil is cited by many as being the major reason for increasing biofuel production.

This push for cleaner fuels is on a GHG basis just one part of a move to greater sustainability, with better land management, less water use, etc... in biofuel production and use.

I shot the photograph above during a brief excursion to the coast below the cliff - top town of Erice, Sicily, where scientists gathered last week to explore ways to limit the chances of devastating Internet assaults, overcome hurdles to securing nuclear waste, balance the production of biofuels with limits on agricultural land, and attack other «planetary emergencies» (in the quirky parlance of the organizer, Antonino Zichichi; Erice sits atop that bluff in the distance in the photograph).

The aiming of this move is to increase Brazilian capacity in food, raw materials, and biofuel production, so that, the country, besides being a key player in food supply, may consolidate, from the technological point of view, the Brazilian role as leader on bioenergy research.

In Brazil, fossil fuels are not part of biofuel production, while in the U.S., corn ethanol production relies heavily on fossil fuels.

The one - two punch of biofuels crowding out food production and high oil prices raising the cost of almost everything is a deadly blow to the poor on a planetary scale.

(In the IEA's accelerated scenario — which sees added policy focus and investment put on biofuels in India, Brazil and the US — biofuel production is 16 % higher again.

KiOR's biorefinery in Columbus, Mississippi started commercial production in March using wood chips to produce cellulosic fuels, and Ineos just announced on July 31 that their Indian River BioEnergy plant in Florida has begun operations to make biofuels from plant waste.

[2] Background: The production and consumption of biofuels grew dramatically from 2008 - 2009 when two EU directives — on Renewable Energy (RED) and Fuel Quality (FQD)-- were adopted that included binding targets for 10 % of transport energy to be derived from renewable energy by 2020, almost all biofuels.

• Indirect greenhouse emissions released by expanding biofuels production will be reported on every year by the European Commission and by fuel suppliers.

Criticisms of policies that encourage biofuels have appropriately focused on the perverse effects of mandates and subsidies, especially land - use shifts from carbon - sequestering forestry or food production to biofuel crops.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

On this basis, study author, Doyletech Corporation, concludes that meeting the increased demand for biofuels with domestic production would:

The report warned that increasing production of liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, could increase the price of agricultural commodities with negative economic and social impacts, especially for the world's poor who spend a large proportion of income on food.

The letter goes on to cite research showing that conventional biofuels derived from feedstocks like rapeseed, corn, and palm oil can «directly or indirectly result in substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of forests and grasslands to croplands or pasture to accommodate biofuel production.»

«Sustainable production of agricultural biofuels on degraded lands that are unsuitable for food production could provide immediate environmental benefits.»

Biofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8 % of global energy needs (6/23/2008) Using abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and TechBiofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8 % of global energy needs (6/23/2008) Using abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Techbiofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Who knew, for example, that Henry Ford took Thomas Edison on a road trip to Florida in 1917 in search of land to use in biofuel production?

EU law makers ruled that biofuels can compete with food production, contribute to climate change, and put pressure on land use — and so have set a limit on the quantity of biofuels that can be used to meet EU energy targets (at no more than 7 % of transport energy).