Sentences with phrase «other than ethanol»

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If ingested, the so called toxic alcohols (other than ethanol) such as methanol, propanol, and ethylene glycol metabolize into toxic aldehydes and acids, which cause potentially fatal metabolic acidosis.

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Which is less ethanol than a 1.5 oz serving of vodka or some other 80 proof liquor.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

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.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

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.

GM has been a big proponent of flex fuels, meaning E85 (85 % ethanol, 15 % gasoline) that gets worse mileage than regular gasoline but does win GM a EPA efficiency credit and is much beloved by America's corn farmers and others who like that the feedstock for E85 is domestic.

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.

While wind energy is cheaper than other, more ineffective renewables, such as solar, tidal, and ethanol, it is nowhere near competitive.

An independent panel of academic scientists for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences — reviewing the conflicting work of Searchinger, Wang and several others — concluded in a 2011 report that «corn - grain ethanol might not have lower [greenhouse gas emission] values than petroleum - based gasoline.»

The researchers examined three ways of using sunlight to power cars: a) the traditional method of converting corn or other plants to ethanol; b) converting energy crops into electricity for BEVs rather than producing ethanol; and C) using PVs to convert sunlight directly into electricity for BEVs.

The search for new strategies generally falls in two camps: ways to use organic stuff other than corn to make ethanol, and ways to manipulate organisms to produce a different fuel identical to gasoline or diesel.

Corn ethanol receives billions in subsidies despite conclusive science indicating its inefficient production provides little or no additional energy other than what is used for its production, and its ecological destructiveness in terms of land, water and climate.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

At the federal level this means the tax credits that have been in place for more than 20 years, encouraging the growth of wind, solar, ethanol, and other renewable energy sources.

Fortunately, there are feedstocks other than corn that can be converted to ethanol without the need for such massive government assistance.

Ethanol more energy - efficient than oil, finds study: Using ethanol — alcohol produced from corn or other plants — instead of gasoline is more energy - efficient that oil say researchers at the University of California, BeEthanol more energy - efficient than oil, finds study: Using ethanol — alcohol produced from corn or other plants — instead of gasoline is more energy - efficient that oil say researchers at the University of California, Beethanol — alcohol produced from corn or other plants — instead of gasoline is more energy - efficient that oil say researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

Speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Francisco, Dale says that while corn ethanol produces less greenhouse gases than gasoline, it can cause other detrimental environmental effects if not carefully managed.

In a free market, refiners would have blended less ethanol and produced more gasoline than they did in the market rigged by the RFS and other pro-ethanol policies.

As to other Alternate Fuels... even in Brasil, the Sugar Ethanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sEthanol industry only exists because of government subsidy... even then, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas sethanol is more expensive than gasoline at the gas station.

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.

Indeed, corn is not the optimal basis for providing all the ethanol fuel we will need, but, as the President says, biofuels are needed to reduce our addiction to oil and to slow climate change — and the emerging biofuels market is spurring major investments in using biomass other than corn to make ethanol.

Statements about BlueFire Ethanol, Inc.'s expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are «forward - looking statements» within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as the term is defined in the Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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In years where we have a bumper crop of corn, and produce more than we need for feed, the market to distilleries will provide built in price supports; the DDGS from the other ethanol feedstocks will provide some cushion to food production in years when the corn crop is bad.

Is there an effort in New York state to produce ethanol from inedible sugar, which is available from Mexico and other sources, for less than $ 5.00 / lb...?

· Substantially increased use of biofuels can only occur if they can be used in forms other than the low - percentage blends of ethanol and biodiesel that account for nearly all of their current use.

Led by David Tilman, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota, the research shows that «mixtures of native perennial grasses and other flowering plants provide more usable energy per acre than corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel and are far better for the environment,» according to a release from the University of Minnesota.

(1) Feedstock other than corn; (2) Decentralized network of small advanced biofuel manufacturing facilities; (3) Variable blending pumps in lieu of splash blending; and (4) Hydrous ethanol.