Sentences with phrase «on ethanol produced»
Current U.S. biofuel supply relies almost exclusively on ethanol produced from Midwest corn.
http://www.theoildrum.com/ Not exact matches
Here's another fun fact: according to Wikipedia (who's never wrong), the average human digestive system produces approximately 3 grams of ethanol per day (a little less than a third of a beer)... completely irrelevant to an article on intermittent fasting and alcohol, but interesting nonetheless.
«Although we produce ethanol, our primary focus remains on high - quality food ingredients for discriminating customers.»
On the other hand, the same experiment with the ionic liquid produced only 1 g / L ethanol.
She is an honors graduate of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where she did research on tobacco plants and ethanol - producing bacteria.
There is certainly a case for re-doubling the scientific efforts to produce bio-fuels on lands which do not compete with food crops, for example from cellulosic ethanol, but this technology is still not ready for the market.
The study is the second major report this month calling for greater research on the environmental effects of producing ethanol and other renewable transportation fuels.
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.
In one case, turning on and off a blue light caused the special yeast to alternate between producing ethanol, a product of normal fermentation, and isobutanol, a chemical that normally would kill yeast at sufficiently high concentration.
Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.
That was the knock on ethanol: that it took more energy to create than it produced as fuel.
But the research suggests that even if researchers maximized the capacity to grow biofuels on all marginal lands, «the amount of cellulosic ethanol it could produce is only enough to provide 1.5 percent of U.S. transportation fuel by 2020.»
Here's another fun fact: according to Wikipedia (who's never wrong), the average human digestive system produces approximately 3 grams of ethanol per day (a little less than a third of a beer)... completely irrelevant to an article on intermittent fasting and alcohol, but interesting nonetheless.
The microbes feed on sugar and produce lactic acid, alcohol (ethanol), and carbon dioxide, yielding a fermented carbonated beverage.
As grapes reach their peak of ripeness in the fall, they may swell in size and burst, thereby allowing the sugars in the juice to be exposed to yeasts growing on the skins and to produce carbon dioxide and ethanol (48).
Furthermore, the Brazilian subsidiary began producing flex - fuel versions for the Civic and the Fit models, capable of running on any blend of gasoline (E20 to E25 blend in Brazil) and ethanol up to E100.
The customized Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car runs on E85 ethanol, a domestically produced alternative fuel.
The Brazilian - spec Jeep 551 will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex - fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm running on petrol or 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II diesel engine.
According to the Brazilian publication, the South American - spec version will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex - fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm running on petrol and 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II diesel engine.
The motor can be run on E85 Flex Fuel and produces slightly better power numbers when using ethanol.
Today, however, particularly in the US, those choices are cushioned by energy prices that don't even reflect what it costs to produce the energy (say «ethanol subsidies» three times), no carbon taxes, and no tax on oil to represent its real or even imagined threats to national security.
Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee should be holding a hearing on advancing America's, and the world's, energy future by initiating a sustained quest to break the economic shackles imposed by enduring dependence on oil (that doesn't involve using 40 percent of our corn crop to produce ethanol in a world facing food price spikes).
I think it's very interesting that last November, Florida Governor Charles Crist — the governor of the state that produces more sugar cane than any other, and about a fifth of all American sugar — visited Brazil and proposed ending America's tariff on sugar ethanol from that country.
South America's largest country is the world's reigning ethanol king, producing 4.4 billion gallons (16.5 billion liters) of the biofuel from sugarcane each year, on average.
Clearly we do not produce enough corn and soybeans to achieve this goal, so the technology that is being counted on is almost certainly cellulosic ethanol.
Switchgrass and hybrid poplars would produce relatively high ethanol yields on marginal lands, but it likely will be another decade before cellulosic ethanol can compete with corn - based ethanol.
California's LCFS also would have little or no impact on GHG emissions nationwide and would harm our nation's energy security by discouraging the use of Canadian crude oil — our nation's largest source of crude — and ethanol produced in the American Midwest.
The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and ethanol from corn.
Industrial countries could produce enough sugar cane / grain ethanol and / or cellulosic ethanol to replace the 75 + million barrels / day they consume without adversed effects on food production and / or major changes in land use.
They see small - scale cellulosic refineries located near switchgrass grown on empty fields, beside pulp paper mill plants, or linked to municipal landfills, producing ethanol and using leftover biomass for co-generation of heat.
«Excessive prices for oil and food» to a certain extent the result of policy restrictions on the use of hydrocarbons, the effect of extrusion from the structure of arable food crops through improved crop plants from which ethanol is produced to replace hydrocarbons as fuel.
The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.
They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.
Ethanol reduces c02 slightly but burns with a lot more polluting solids as found by testing recently, it also clogs motors and catalyic converters and produces nitros oxide which is a lot worse and that is smog, more lies, c02 is essential for every living thing on the planet not a pollutant.
And finally on the renewable fuels side, it includes a $ 20 million program to build a cellulosic ethanol facility to create the first pilot - plant (we hope) that will produce ethanol from woody biomass as opposed to corn, and thereby drastically raising the energy balance of the ethanol.
In 2009 the world was on track to produce 19 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and nearly 4 billion gallons of biodiesel.
Robert Zubrin thinks the United States can break free from the grip of Middle East oil - producing countries by immediately mandating that all cars sold in this country be «flex - fuel vehicles,» capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or methanol.
If total oil supply based on these numbers are compared, the United States actually produces more oil than these other countries because the United States produces far more oil from natural gas and other liquids (e.g. ethanol) and refinery gain than do the other countries.
There are several organizations which are on the verge of trying to produced cellulose ethanol in commercial quantities.
Clinton also criticized the heavy U.S. reliance on a food crop, corn, to produce ethanol for fuel, which helped drive up grain prices worldwide.
# 1 Turn food into fuel... «Already, half of the nearly 11 billion bushels of corn produced each year is turned into ethanol, and most new cars are capable of running on E10 (10 % ethanol and 90 % gas).»
Flex fuel: Honda's Fit FFV, runs on either 100 % ethanol or a wide range of ethanol - gasoline fuel mixtures; the company has been producing and selling this in Brazil since the end of 2006.
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It has been estimated that «if every bushel of U.S. corn, wheat, rice and soybean were used to produce ethanol, it would only cover about 4 % of U.S. energy needs on a net basis.»
Corn ethanol, conversely, could be either more polluting or less than gasoline, depending on how the corn is grown and the ethanol is produced.
This research shows that on average, corn ethanol produces emissions 51 % lower than gasoline.
The facility will be built on 10 acres near Lancaster, California and is not expected to begin producing ethanol until late 2009, The location was chosen because of the abundant waste that already passes by the location: An estimated 170 tons of wood chips, grass cuttings, and organic waste each day.
Some of the earliest forms of life on Earth — anaerobic bacteria — used fermentation to produce ethanol and in the process extracted energy to drive their metabolic functions.
«If every one of the 70 million acres on which corn was grown in 2006 was used for ethanol, the amount produced would displace only 12 percent of the U.S. gasoline market.
I don't think we yet quite grasp the effect of $ 60 - a-barrel oil on food prices, because the capacity to distill ethanol and produce biodiesel is not yet large enough to really have an impact.