Sentences with phrase «other biofuels into»

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Icahn owns an 82 % stake in CVR Energy, which along with other refining companies, has called for changes to the Renewable Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.

The United Nations Environment Programme finds research into biofuels impacts on dead zones, biodiversity and a range of other environmental issues lacking

Ahring's group has previously been successful in using standard Aspergillus fungi to produce enzymes and other useful products, which have been patented and are under commercialization, so they decided to look into A. carbonarius ITEM 5010's potential for biofuels.

Likewise, if biofuels cause other land to be cleared, there will be additional flow into the bathtub.

There are other people who have talked about changing microalgae — green algae that floats in the water — into advanced biofuel, but [using] seaweed is unique,» said DuPont's Nathan Danielson, a program manager who oversaw the companies» DOE grant application.

Professor McGeehan said: «The engineering process is much the same as for enzymes currently being used in bio-washing detergents and in the manufacture of biofuels — the technology exists and it's well within the possibility that in the coming years we will see an industrially viable process to turn PET and potentially other substrates like PEF, PLA, and PBS, back into their original building blocks so that they can be sustainably recycled.»

«Learning about how termites convert wood and other biomass into sugars may be applicable to the production of sustainable biofuels,» Professor Lo concluded.

The new analysis found that conventional crops such as corn had the highest yield of biomass that can be turned into biofuel on marginal lands, although their ability to reduce CO2 is harmed by tilling, fertilizing and other CO2 - producing activities necessary to turn them into fuel.

Some technologies focus on improved ways of breaking down biomass for conversion into fuel, some on engineering plants with the characteristics most advantageous for biofuels, and still others on creating co-products that can help make advanced biofuels economically viable.

Using corn to produce ethanol has driven up food prices in recent years, and converting forests and other areas into farmland to grow more corn for biofuels may well negate ethanol's improved greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

It can be refined into paper, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, animal feed, food, and many other things.

Carbon dioxide can then be stored terrestrially or under the world's oceans, or potentially utilized for other purposes, such as enhanced oil recovery, biochemical conversion into biofuels, or for energy storage technologies.

So, half of the algae cultivated would be pumped into the landfill to produce more methane; the other half would be used to produced biofuel.

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.

Since going into operation in 2009, ARPA - E, as it is known, has provided about $ 1.3 billion in funding to more than 475 projects involving grid - scale batteries, power storage, biofuel production, wind turbines and other technology, according to a May report on the agency.

Fueled by surging demand from China and other emerging economies, and boosted by the convergence of food and energy markets in response to American and European incentives for biofuels, the worldwide commodity boom over the past few years helped trigger a land rush that precipitated the conversion of natural forests into farms, plantations, and ranches.

However, with 35 % of U.S. corn being turned into biofuels, it clearly has a major effect on the price, driving it upwards (and driving other commodities higher as well, as farmland becomes more scarce).

The authors of the letter also say that some potential biofuel feedstock crops — including switchgrass and miscanthus — are perennials that sequester carbon into soil and thrive on land often not suitable for other crops.

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.

On the other hand, mixing just enough biofuels into jet fuel and maybe some new chemical processes applied to petroleum refining (hope it doesn't need HF)... Or maybe would could try to strip the H from the C in the «waste» products (might be economical if gasoline, being waste, only costs a penny -LRB-?)

In other words, whereas the Volt gets its electricity either from plugging into the wall, or from an on - board gasoline generator (the engine can be modified to use diesel or biofuels, too), the Provoq gets its juice from the wall or compressed hydrogen that is fed into a fuel cell stack.

Unlike fossil fuels, when biofuels and other plant - based substances are burned, no extra carbon is added to the air, even though this process also releases carbon dioxide into the air.

One teething problem in the burgeoning biofuel industry is the issue of sustainability: Some biofuels actually increase greenhouse gas emissions while being claimed to prevent them; others add to food price inflation pressures; in some parts of the world, the labor conditions of biofuel crop farm workers have been called into question.