Sentences with phrase «times more ethanol»

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Now, the first large - scale study shows that switchgrass yields more than five times the energy needed to grow, harvest, and transport the grass and convert it to ethanol.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

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Slate neglected to mention that the ethanol scam was correctly identified by innumerable scientists in the field for the fraud that it was for a long time before more august groups rubber stamped their research.

These biofuel plants about 4 - 6 times more expensive than corn ethanol.

This «something» are alkylates, aromatics and reformates — which have been trading on commodity markets about $ 1.20 more per gallon than ethanol (last time I checked N.Y. Harbor prices).

• For eight full years — 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1997, and 1998 — ethanol cost at least three times more than an energy - equivalent amount of gasoline.

But the study comes at a time when farmers and producers are already receiving federal subsidies to grow more corn for ethanol under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

And a 2009 study led by Robert Jackson, who at the time was the Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, concluded that plowing up untilled land to grow more corn for ethanol fuel is «an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy.»

In response, India and Nigeria are developing sorghum and cassava based ethanol micro-refineries, a low cost solution for deforestation that is several times more efficient.

That's the essential promise of CBP — by having a magic bug that will extract sugars from biomass, and at the same time ferment those sugars into ethanol, you have a smaller, more consolidated design — compared to systems that have hydrolysis, and then move the sugary broth to a fermenter system to convert into ethanol.

The community has also benefited from construction jobs related to the project, creation of two full time jobs at L.P. Gill, and lower and more predictable energy costs at the local ethanol plant.

Corn ethanol — For the first time ever, more of the corn crop may go into gas tanks than into the stomachs of cattle and poultry destined for kitchen tables.

Got news for you, Gov; that Texas Erl increases the cost of food 3 times more than does the Iowa Ethanol.

Back in 2007, researchers refined a heat - seeking rod - shaped bacterium of the geobacillus family, which is 300 times more effective at making ethanol than its wild strain counterpart.

Because the wind turbines would require a modest amount of spacing between them to allow room for the blades to spin, wind farms would occupy about 0.5 percent of all U.S. land, but this amount is more than 30 times less than that required for growing corn or grasses for ethanol.

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New York Times More on canal transport: Transport By Barge on the Erie Canal Uses a Tenth of The Fuel of a Truck UK Canal Freight Under Scrutiny: 80 % Less CO2 Than Road Haulage... Ethanol Follies in Upstate New York Supermarket Delivers By Barge to Save Emissions: TreeHugger More on Amtrak: Taking the Train to New York: The Only Way to Fly Amtrak Finally Gets A Boost in Funding Allison Rogers on Taking a Train from DC To Rhode Island

Yes, we did recently report on a study which showed that switchgrass could potentially yield 5 times more energy than was used to grow it and, yes, there are several companies that are working hard to bring cellulosic ethanol to market.

However, two recent papers published in Science, including the one we discussed in our post, have pointed out that when you take into account land use changes, the global warming pollution benefit of corn ethanol is negligible or not a benefit at all but a negative (researcher Joseph Fargione's team found that most biofuels «create a «biofuel carbon debt» by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels.»)

I believe all the time, energy, money, and brain power that is being spent on ethanol as a fuel would be more productively spent on fixing the education system and teaching the government how to manage money.

Given the turmoil in world grain markets in late 2007, it is time for the U.S. government to place a moratorium on the licensing of any more grain - based ethanol distilleries.