Sentences with phrase «over corn ethanol»
Via:: Newsday: Bloomberg talks green at UN; wants diplomats to pay fees (newspaper),:: Reuters UK: Bloomberg slams US energy law over corn ethanol (news website)
https://www.treehugger.com/ Not exact matches
The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur into the expanses of the American Middle West, fly - over country, where ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.
In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.
Rick Lunz's family farm, one county over from Corn Plus, is one of the patches where the new ethanol economy has sprouted.
«Corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings [in greenhouse gas emissions], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years,» the researchers write.
Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.
Most of the emissions from clearing land happen right away, a step that makes corn ethanol's greenhouse emissions look very bad at first before they gradually improve over longer and longer time periods.
«So instead of taking corn and extracting its sugars to make ethanol, we're making use of the stalks and cobs left over after the corn is harvested, as well as other kinds of waste like wood chips and rice hulls.»
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).
He found that over 30 years, corn - based ethanol would actually increase emissions by nearly 100 percent, because farmers exploit previously unfarmed land to grow corn for ethanol.
That has raised widespread concerns over food security because corn and sugarcane grown for ethanol compete with valuable agricultural land needed to feed the planet's 7 billion people.
Combined with two bad harvests, this has forced Brazil to import some 1.5 billion liters of maize (corn) ethanol from the United States over the past 2 years.
I don't see how our subsidies for making ethanol from corn, for example, spill over to the production of high fructose corn syrup.
Analysis by Kansas State grain scientists found that next generation DDGs (left - overs from the production of ethanol that includes residues of yeast) contain 50.8 percent crude protein, compared with 47.8 percent in soybean meal or 67.1 percent in corn gluten meal.
The good news is the Iowa caucus is over so the smiles for subsidized, corn based ethanol can be taken off.
Over the next seven years, the RFS calls for corn - based ethanol to cede market share to other biofuels.
And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»
For now, setting aside acreage and letting it return to native vegetation was rated the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, outweighing the results of corn - ethanol production over the first 48 years.
An ad by the anti-ethanol group «Smarter Fuel Future» says: «Mandating corn for ethanol doubles greenhouse gas emissions compared to gasoline, over 30 years.»
Its promoters say corn - based ethanol is only the flawed first version, and that cellulosic ethanol will end the competition of food with fuel, and spread the organic sources of ethanol over a much larger and diverse landscape.
2) «Ethanol unlikely to support corn prices this year http://bit.ly/I1AgJo Massive US corn crop; #corn prices down 21 % over past year.
Analyses by the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Iowa State University (in the heart of corn country), and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) find that the mandate chiefly determines how much ethanol is produced over the next five years.
By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belt.
The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban ethanol fuel content over ten percent.
According to the USDA, nearly forty percent of the 2017 U.S. corn crop will be diverted to ethanol production, and just over 1/3 of the oil produced from soybeans, the leading source of vegetable oil in the U.S., will be diverted to biodiesel production in 2017/18.
Looking back over the last 10 years, the RFS and its resulting promotion of corn ethanol as a leading oxygenate supplement to conventional transportation fuels did not meet intended environmental goals.
And just as we saw backlashes against drilling over Deepwater and now nuclear with Japan, imagine the backlash if the Midwest goes through a major drought while we still try to supply the ethanol industry with their corn.
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.
By favoring costly, non-existent cellulosic biofuels over corn - based ethanol, Clinton's fuel mandate would resemble California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
Such as the allowing of the turning over of conservation areas to, in this case, corn growing for ethanol production.
Feel free to run that number for us but the cost per unit of energy won't have enough impact to give oil any advantage over the likes of corn ethanol.
Corn ethanol is an example, though certainly not the only one, of the power that environmentalism and politics has over logic and technical knowledge.
When Iowa's agriculture secretary, William Northey, a Republican, accompanied Mitt Romney on a campaign visit to Iowa, they talked about the tensions over corn and ethanol.
The 10 % ethanol mandate used up over 1/4 of the USA corn crop and did virtually NOTHING to reduce CO2 emissions.
It was in that period that many of today's corn - to - ethanol projects were designed and funded as prototypes, after which, scale - ups and expansions have now spilled over, in some case with their pollutants having measurable effect, resulting in significant penalties being levied.
Over at The Oil Drum, Gail has just penned an exhaustive and, we think, invaluable post clarifying the perceived benefits and disadvantages of using corn - based ethanol as an alternative to fossil fuels.
In 2014, over 40 percent of corn grown in the U.S. was used to make ethanol, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture.
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.
Today, corn ethanol is over 2 to 1 and evolving.
He also repeated US claims that corn ethanol was «an efficient producer of energy» despite studies suggesting that it offered little or no environmental benefits over fossil fuels.
This has contributed to driving the cost of corn way up over the last year or two (there are other factors for the increase as well such as drought in Australia and booming demand among new middle classes in China and elsewhere but ethanol production is a big culprit).