Sentences with phrase «planting energy crops»

From an energetic stand point, the dual use principle of agrophotovoltaics is much more efficient than solely planting energy crops, accounting, after all, for 18 percent of agricultural land use in Germany.

In many parts of the world, such as Southeast Asia, biofuels businesses have already cleared primary forests to plant energy crops such as palm.

Not exact matches

«Such plants — including breweries, fruit, food waste, agro industries, and energy crops including corn — can easily use this technology to generate energy.

In Green Tour, viewers get a snapshot of what sustainable winegrowing means — from using solar energy and preserving water, to planting cover crops between vine rows for soil health and attracting beneficial insects.

The plant stores and processes energy crops as well as liquid manure.

In this image, a local farmer drives harvested energy crops to the bioenergy plant, where they will be stored under large tarps until ready for processing.

The oil - rich jatropha plant and other so - called «energy crops» being grown on the island may also pass through the industrial plant, as long as growers are willing to part with it for free (though that may prove unlikely).

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

Under agricultural fields, insufficient sunshine due to unusual weather, or natural disasters such as flooding, strongly inhibits energy acquisition in crop plants.

Previous studies on switchgrass plots suggested that ethanol made from the plant would yield anywhere from 343 % to 700 % of the energy put into growing the crop and processing it into biofuel.

This discovery, which could enable scientists to engineer crop plants that more efficiently harness the energy of the Sun, will be published online by the journal Science.

But some plants can capture more photons because of energy - efficient genes, which has led scientists to seek ways of inserting those genes into food crops to increase crop yields exponentially.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

Jet fuels derived from algae, camelina and jatropha — plants that pack an energy punch, are not eaten as food and do not displace food crops — could be approved and replacing petroleum fuels in commercial flights as early as next year, a Boeing executive said yesterday.

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Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

The highly variable levels of light plants receive, particularly in densely planted crop fields, presents a challenge to the efficient use of solar energy.

Planting perennial crops such as switchgrass near creeks increased greenhouse gas mitigation, water quality, beneficial insects and energy production, though it decreased total net income of farms in the study area by roughly $ 30 million.

The greater number of deaths in winter (in the UK) compared to the summer, better crops due to a longer season and increased «plant» food are two obvious areas of debate, as are the economic benefits by having lower priced energy than will be the case with renewables.

«Concerns about climate change and energy security are driving an aggressive expansion of bioenergy crop production and many of these plant species emit more isoprene than the traditional crops they are replacing,» the paper states.

Biofuel crops planted within solar energy farms could bring «two - for - the - price - of - one» energy bounty.

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.

Other techniques, such as planting cover crops and no - till soil management, can further increase CO2 uptake and reduce energy use.25, 26 Use of agricultural best management practices can also improve water quality by reducing the loss of sediments and nutrients from farm fields.

The company's technology platform, based on identifying promising cellulose genes, transforming crop plants with candidate genes, and evaluating the effects on growth, yield, and cellulose hydrolysis would be applicable to a variety of energy crops including switchgrass, sorghum, and sugar cane.

Bioenergy refers to sources of energy (electricity and solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels) derived from biomass: plant - or animal - based materials such as crops, crop residues, trees, animal fats, by - products, and wastes.

Plus, many crops are planted that are not food crops, so society will need to make policy choices between food versus income crops (e.g. coffee, tea) or energy crops.

The potential use of plant - based sources of energy is limited because even corn — the most efficient of the grain crops — can convert just 0.5 percent of solar energy into a usable form.

Numerous microorganisms and earthworms commune underground, using energy to eat old plant matter and leaving natural fertilizers in the dirt for next year's crop.

Perennial grasses and re-sprouting woody plants have naturally high productivity, need fewer inputs and water, and are not food crops; hence, many governments worldwide are choosing them as future energy farming systems.

There are two primary externalities that result from our emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — 1) an enhancement of the greenhouse effect, which results in an alteration of the energy flow in the earth's climate and a general tendency to warm the global average surface temperature, and 2) an enhancement of the rate of photosynthesis in plants and a general tendency to result in more efficient growth and an overall healthier condition of vegetation (including crops).

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Since biodiesel is made from soybean, palm, canola, flax, sunflower, and other plant oils, those crops must be grown on millions of acres of land, using enormous amounts of water, fertilizer, pesticides, and energy.

Farmers certainly can't, since energy is required to plant and harvest their crops and then to transport those crops to customers.

We keep saying that the best source of energy is conservation and efficiency; by coincidence, Franklin Roosevelt set up the Conservation Corps to build ditches, plant crops and reforest America in the Great Depression.

Another critic argues that the studies fail to consider no - till cultivation of biofuel crops, which actually increase soil carbon storage, and that corn ethanol plants are converting to renewable energy, thus decreasing their emissions - meanwhile they are competing against fossil fuels like oil from tar sands that have an increased carbon footprint even compared to conventional gasoline.

But they warn us not to tell anyone that the hippies got there first.Paul Douglas brings news that farmers are exploring perennial fodder crops called tagasaste and Old Man Saltbush to protect soils, prevent erosion, and avoid the energy, time and monetary costs of planting annuals for fodder.

Oklahoma Bioenergy Center (OBC), a state - initiative championed by Gov. Brad Henry, secured land to enable the planting of more than 1,100 acres of production - scale demonstration fields for cellulosic energy crops, such as switch grass and sorghum to contribute to the United States» bioenergy effort.