Sentences with phrase «renewable production of ethanol»

Hawaii also has a thriving sugar cane industry, which many people have eyed for the renewable production of ethanol.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

Since transportation and storage of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in ethanol production.

The 2015 Survey of Non-Starch Ethanol and Renewable Hydrocarbon Biofuels Producers provides an inventory of the domestic advanced biofuels production industry as of the end of calendar year 2015, documenting important... Read more →

Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association says don't blame American ethanol production.»

The renewable fuel standard passed by Congress calls for 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2010, but the actual production capacity from experimental plants is only about 3 to 4 million gallons, he said.

IRVINE, Calif. and MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 27 — BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE.ob — News), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced a contract with Cooper Marine & Timberlands to provide feedstock for BlueFire's planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, -LSB-...]

Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18 percent of the country's automotive fuel.

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, Februaryethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, Februaryethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, FebruaryEthanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

Farming subsidies are continually under threat, but when the federal government started subsidising ethanol production and wind power, farmers realised that renewable energy offers new streams of revenue.

William Astley says: March 10, 2012 at 1:56 am ---- snip --- The Clean Energy Scam The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol — ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter — in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade.

The Clean Energy Scam The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol — ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter — in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade.

Unfortunately, President Obama is following President Carter by seeking approval from the environmental movement by thwarting domestic fossil fuel production and promoting unreliable, uneconomic renewable energy sources of solar, wind, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.

This summer, expensive and rare corn has left 26 ethanol plants idle — some for more than a year — removing 1.5 billion gallons of production, according to the industry trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association.

If US takes a formal decision to suspend ethanol production or blending criteria called Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) that is uneconomical anyway, around 110 million tonnes — 30 % of US corn production — can be spared.

When we assume the ethanol production process is fully renewable, it would take all the corn in the country to displace about 3.5 percent of our gasoline consumption — only slightly more than we could displace by making sure drivers» tires are inflated properly.

BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced that it has finalized and signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS.. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ), for a fixed price of $ 296 million which includes an approximately $ 100 million biomass power plant as part of the facility.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: biological, thermochemical, or thermocatalytic routes for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to advanced biofuels beyond cellulosic ethanol; microbial fuel cells for direct production of electricity from renewable carbon sources; hydrogen production from autotrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms; hydrocarbons and lipids from phototrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms.

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).

The use of the renewable fuels in ethanol production will tend to give corn - based ethanol a more positive energy balance and will reduce the use of fossil fuels.

In just two years, the Renewable Fuel Standard I helped pass has sparked an historic expansion of ethanol production.