Sentences with phrase «rather than ethanol»

This projected growth assumes that the anticipated expansion in cellulosic crop production would be used primarily for electricity generation rather than ethanol production.

Not exact matches

Chemists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are closing in on cheap ways to make cellulosic ethanol, a form of ethanol derived from agricultural waste rather than food crops like soybeans or corn.

Fueling the automobile fleet primarily with ethanol rather than gasoline might increase air pollution, a new study finds

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.

SS wants to talk about the diversionary question of the ins and outs of recent regulatory changes rather than the overall policy of favoring, subsidizing, and mandating ethanol for years.

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.

Under those results, corn ethanol would generally offer a 25 - 30 % GHG reduction benefit relative to gasoline, rather than the current finding that corn ethanol offers little or no GHG savings compared to gasoline.

I'd rather have a booming corn economy in Iowa and Illinois producing ethanol than the Arabs drilling the Earth and germinating terrorists.

We urge Congress to pass this legislation immediately rather than continuing to push false theories about ethanol.»

But the models fail to account for dynamic reactions to a corn crop reduction (in this case a simple and very cost efficient response would be to end corn ethanol subsidies, thus redirecting corn to food rather than fuel, ending an inefficient industry and encouraging ethanol industries in tropical nations using sugar cane, which makes a lot more sense than corn ethanol).

Rather than subsiding the production of corn based ethanol the same money can be used to preserve and increase rainforest.

Carlos Rittl of Climate Observatory, a coalition of environmental NGOs, said Brazil was now hiding behind the gains it made in the past rather than pushing ahead with more ambitious climate policies involving greater investment in wind, solar, ethanol and biomass.

Rather, the agency set ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.

The wasteful tax effect arises because a certain number of workers are used to produce the ethanol, rather than goods and services consumers in the market prefer.

The peak in United States wheat production is probably due to the shifting of wheat area to corn and soybeans areas to make biofuels (ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans) rather than the current peaking of crude - oil extraction