Sentences with phrase «produce ethanol from corn»

By some accounts the amount of energy used to produce ethanol from corn is more than the energy left behind in the fuel — that's a lot of wasted energy and a lot of global warming pollution.

Analysis of the total energy input to produce ethanol from corn show that 29 % more fossil fuel input energy is require to produce one energy unit of ethanol.

Today it costs $ 40 to $ 50 a barrel to produce ethanol from corn.

Not exact matches

Later this year the company is scheduled to finish a $ 200 million - plus facility in Nevada, Iowa, that will produce 30 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using corn residue from nearby farms.

After a much - quoted warning that «America is addicted to oil» in this year's State of the Union address, President Bush called for «cutting - edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switchgrass.

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).

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.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

«Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn ethanol from switchgrass and corn stover.

Among the multiple applications for different processing pathways of corn or sorghum ethanol are four pathways from LytEn for hydrogen produced from biomethane; four pathways for renewable... Read more →

The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

Where will that energy come from if we make many more poor choices like corn ethanol (a systems analysis of which showed that it took more total energy to produce than it delivered).

If I produced corn ethanol, and the price of oil went up, I'd charge a lot more for my ethanol to maximize profitability while my competitor's prices were high, which, in a nutshell is why ethanol does little to protect consumers from oil price spikes.

We'll also fund additional research in cutting - edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn, but from wood chips and stalks, or switch grass.

Biodiesel derived from soybeans, while expensive to produce, comes at a much lower environmental price and a much better EROEI than corn ethanol.

The predominant biofuel produced in the U.S. is ethanol derived from corn.

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.»

It cited «plausible scenarios in which GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions from corn - grain ethanol are much higher than those of petroleum - based fuels,» and questioned the method by which EPA determined that ethanol would produce 21 percent less emissions.

The 88 percent figure is what the Wang study concluded would be accomplished by ethanol made from switchgrass, which holds greater promise of greenhouse gas reduction than corn - based ethanol, but isn't yet being produced in large quantities.

At the moment, most of this comes from ethanol produced by corn, and in the future plans are to power vehicles from forests, oil crops such as oil palm and soya for biodiesel, and other biomass.

The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and ethanol from corn.

Many people are familiar with the biofuel ethanol, which is produced from corn and is blended with the gasoline we pump into our tanks.

Trees may not take as much CO2 out of the air as corn plants do but they only have to take out less than half as much, since three to four times as much CO2 is in the whole corn plant as there is in the ethanol produced from it.

In the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, Congress said that of the 36 billion gallons of biofuel it wants produced by 2022, 15 billion gallons must come from corn - based ethanol and at least 16 billion gallons from cellulosic biofuels.

The use of ethanol produced from corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil has given birth to the commercialization of an alternative fuel that is coming to show substantial promise, particularly as new feedstocks are developed.

Many of the corn ethanol plants can be easily modified to produce cellulosic ethanol from the waste of farm crops.

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.

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.

And finally on the renewable fuels side, it includes a $ 20 million program to build a cellulosic ethanol facility to create the first pilot - plant (we hope) that will produce ethanol from woody biomass as opposed to corn, and thereby drastically raising the energy balance of the ethanol.

The one caveat in all this is that ethanol is partly produced from corn waste and by - products that is not normally used as food http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/08/25/business/ethanol-plant-using-corn-waste-moves-forward

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).

«Energy outputs from ethanol produced using corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass were each less than the respective fossil energy inputs.

This is how we can produce massive quantities of domestic biofuel and solve our liquid fuel demand: We could remove the starch from ALL of our feed corn (instead of just part of it) to make more ethanol.

For example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillation.

Ethanol, or ethyl alcohol, is a type of biofuel produced from organic matter like corn, sugarcane, grasses, agricultural waste, and even garbage.

Ethanol from Brazil and other sugar - producing countries is cheaper than domestic corn - based ethanol, but the high tariff discourages low - cost iEthanol from Brazil and other sugar - producing countries is cheaper than domestic corn - based ethanol, but the high tariff discourages low - cost iethanol, but the high tariff discourages low - cost imports.

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.

Ethanol made from corn only contains marginally more energy than what is needed to produce it.

The first large - scale commercial operation to produce cellulosic ethanol (the kind of ethanol made not from corn or other grown crops, but from organic waste) in the US just got major backing from the oil industry, and will be online in 2013.

To meet some of the higher ethanol production goals would require more corn than the United States currently produces, if all of the envisioned ethanol was made from corn.

Among the multiple applications for different processing pathways of corn or sorghum ethanol are four pathways from LytEn for hydrogen produced from biomethane; four pathways for renewable... Read more →

There are a number of new approaches to producing corn - based ethanol, using more renewable energy in the production of ethanol (such as methane from waste products or wind energy).

Current U.S. biofuel supply relies almost exclusively on ethanol produced from Midwest corn.

Most ethanol produced in the United States is currently derived from corn, a relatively poor feedstock given its low yield and high fertilizer requirements which have been linked to water pollution, the expanded «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico, and significant greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

Ethanol from corn stalks or cellulosic ethanol is produced by a completely different process, a process that is not yet commercially avaEthanol from corn stalks or cellulosic ethanol is produced by a completely different process, a process that is not yet commercially avaethanol is produced by a completely different process, a process that is not yet commercially available.