Sentences with phrase «processed ethanol made from corn»

(For context, the price of a gallon of processed ethanol made from corn is now $ 2.40 a gallon.)

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And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

If she can perfect the process, it could lead to inexpensive biofuels that are made from inedible crops — not from corn like most of today's ethanol.

But the ethanol we currently make from corn — which we call corn ethanol — is produced from a process by which the sugars and starches in the corn are fermented to produce the ethanol — the same basic process that produces beer from grain and wine from grapes.