Sentences with phrase «other biofuels»

They take up a fraction of the space required to grow other biofuels.
Corn - based ethanol does not appear to have any particular advantage over other biofuels, and it is questionable whether it can be significantly expanded without adverse consequences.
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.
Other biofuel feedstock sources, including cellulosic biomass, are promising, but technological barriers make their future uncertain.
Geobacter are naturally occurring microbes that have proved promising in cleaning up nuclear waste as well in improving other biofuel processes.
Though plenty of reports have been done in the past two years indicating that while jatropha curcas does grow in marginal conditions, to produce consistent crops yields at levels suitable for commercial biofuel production, it needs just as much attention as other biofuel crops.
Unlike other biofuels blends, RNG is identical to natural gas and has the same performance characteristics as conventional natural gas,» said Bruce Winchester, Executive Director of the Canadian Natural Gas Vehicle Alliance.
The work provides hope that if the same gene - removal technique works in poplar trees and other biofuel crops, it could significantly decrease the cost of making fuel, he says.
Despite what I thought were persuasive articles over the years (here, here and here, for example), corn ethanol and other biofuel mandates remain embedded in U.S. law.
In the past BP has formed alliances with other biofuels developers: Tropica BioEnergia in Brazil for ethanol, and D1 Oils for Jatropha - based biodiesel.
But high - performance green diesel and gas aren't like other biofuels; they're perfect substitutes for petroleum - derived fuels, except they're made from plant matter like forest detritus, also known as cellulosic waste, or from algae.
Using fungi for hydrocarbon and biofuels production is better than other methods because they do the work themselves, bypassing multiple complicated chemical processes required by other biofuel production methods.
Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Although CWT currently has a supply agreement with Butterball for animal and food processing waste, the turkey company is now looking to sell excess fat and skin to other biofuel companies.
Microarray analysis was performed at different time points to determine yeast genome - wide response when exposed to salt, acid, hypoxic conditions, and hydrogen peroxide, as well as ethanol, isopentenol, and other biofuels candidates.
Consumption of biodiesel, ethanol, and other biofuels accounted for 1.8 percent of the European Union's transportation energy in 2006, up from just 1 percent in 2005, according to the most recent Biofuels Barometer, a publication supported by the European Commission.
Take ethanol and other biofuel subsidies, which the committee calls a «most striking» example.
Unlike other biofuel approaches, the process doesn't require the use of fresh water, food crops, or fermentation, according to the company.
So, more attention and resources are going into the producing of ethanol and other biofuel types from second - generation feedstocks, sometimes known as non-food crops.
The Environmental Protection Agency's mandated volume for 2017, which will force an additional nearly 1.2 billion gallons of ethanol and other biofuels into the nation's fuel supply, does not reflect consumer preferences.
Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.
With the debate over the viability of ethanol and other biofuels raging on (and on), some are betting — not on solar, not on wind power — but on geothermal power as the next best possible source of renewable energy (more information on geothermal here,
These senators (and many House and Senate colleagues) are determined that ethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuel mandates and «targets» will always and only go in one direction: upward.
Since the waste product already exists, it means creating the pellets requires no resource - intensive crop watering, as must be done with other biofuels.
But the thinking is that the carbon dioxide emitted by renewable sources will eventually get reabsorbed through photosynthesis, as trees, corn, and other biofuel sources grow back.
To boot, green fuels are also more stable and have a lower cloud point than other biofuels.
«Cutting the cost of ethanol, other biofuels and gasoline: Researchers devise way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels.»
There are other biofuels, but they have drawbacks too.
The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.
The Obama administration made a concerted effort to transform the U.S. transportation system with battery startups, regulations that ramp up the use of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, and a near doubling of fuel efficiency requirements for light - duty cars and trucks.
The advantage of isobutanol, he said, is that unlike some other biofuels, it does not freeze at 15,000 feet and continues burning very well in the subzero temperatures as high as 35,000 feet.
Remember the huge role ethanol and other biofuels are playing in competing for food crops, boosting price rises.
Other biofuels may have more potential, but except maybe cellulosic from prairy grass or biodiesel from algae, most come at considerable environmental cost.
Over the next seven years, the RFS calls for corn - based ethanol to cede market share to other biofuels.
The question, says UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management Professor and LCA expert Roland Geyer, is which makes more sense, growing fuel crops to supply alternative - fuel vehicles with ethanol and other biofuels or using photovoltaics (PV) to directly power battery electric vehicles (BEV)?
Some experts believe that algae is set to eclipse all other biofuel feedstocks as the cheapest, easiest, and most environmentally friendly way to produce liquid fuel.
Crops traditionally grown for grain, such as corn, have been made into ethanol and other biofuels to reduce some of the country's dependency on fossil fuels.
Sources of black carbon include burning of wood and other biofuels, for domestic heating and cooking and in forest and field burning, and combustion of fossil fuels, especially coal and diesel.
We probably shouldn't think it won't compete for land & water resources any less than any other biofuel process.
Ethanol and other biofuels might have made some sense when Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and established mandates (or «standards») requiring that refiners and consumer purchase large quantities of ethanol and other biofuels.
Unfortunately, President Obama is following President Carter by seeking approval from the environmental movement by thwarting domestic fossil fuel production and promoting unreliable, uneconomic renewable energy sources of solar, wind, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.
On a global scale, the biofuels frenzy is diverting millions of acres of farmland from food crops, converting millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other biofuels.
To top off this seemingly inexhaustible list of policy idiocies, all this ethanol and other biofuel could easily be replaced with newly abundant oil and gas supplies.
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