Increasingly, agricultural crops such as oil palm, sugar cane, maize, rapeseed, soybeans and wheat, are being used to
produce liquid biofuels, mainly to power vehicles.
Not exact matches
All these supports and promotion schemes for
liquid biofuels should be scrapped, because of overwhelming scientific evidence that using land to
produce energy crops delivers no climate benefits at all once agricultural emissions and land - use change are taken into account.
«Armed with the rcdA variant, we were able to engineer a strain of E. coli that could not only tolerate ionic
liquid, but that could also
produce ionic -
liquid - tolerant enzymes that chew up the cellulose, make sugars, eat it and make
biofuels,» said Frederix.
Berkeley Lab scientists are exploring whether a common soil bacterium can be engineered to
produce liquid transportation fuels much more efficiently than the ways in which advanced
biofuels are made today.
Study finds that
biofuel crops grown on marginal lands could
produce up to half of world's current
liquid fuel consumption without impacting crops
Liquid fuel providers —
producing and selling diesel fuel, gasoline, or
biofuels — and electricity providers — «fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete for the transportation dollar.
Some experts believe that algae is set to eclipse all other
biofuel feedstocks as the cheapest, easiest, and most environmentally friendly way to
produce liquid fuel.
Biofuel - Any
liquid, gaseous, or solid fuel
produced from plant or animal organic matter.
Furthermore,
liquid cellulosic
biofuel technologies were expected to develop within a few years of EISA07, but by the end of 2017, only one tenth of one percent of the volume congress had hoped for was actually
produced.
Such second - generation
liquid biofuels produced from woody biomass rather than from food crops would also reduce competition with food production.
Currently most
liquid biofuels are
produced from food crops and yield low economic and environmental benefits compared to fossil fuels.
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.