Sentences with phrase «to produce biofuels»

The first in question is the world's first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste.

Of course we are not going to produce biofuels in quantities to provide one to one replacement for fossil fuels.

Such organisms are already churning out insulin and other drug ingredients, helping produce biofuels, teaching scientists about human disease and improving fishing and agriculture.

Recently, new plant species have been tested that grow well on marginal lands and could therefore produce biofuels without directly competing with valuable lands.

Some new techniques for producing biofuels include the production of cellulosic ethanol made from inedible and wasted parts of feedstocks, such as plant stems, leaves and stalks, wood residues such as straw, sawdust and papermill scraps and other agricultural waste.

Another route to relatively guilt - free travel is the approach taken by Sir Richard Branson, who is trying to develop sustainably produced biofuels suitable for jet engines.

Other ways of producing biofuels in the tropics — on degraded lands, former agricultural areas and so on — are clearly possible, and could have tremendous environmental, economic and social benefits.»

In their focus on producing biofuels from cellulosic biomass (i.e., wood, grasses and the inedible parts of plants), the BRCs are developing a portfolio of new bio-based products, methods and tools for use in the biofuels industry.

Venter's quest for synthetic life ultimately aims to create purpose - built organisms that can carry out specific roles, such as producing biofuels or even making hydrogen.

«It's tempting to use corn stover because it's already there — farmers who grow corn don't have to plant another crop to produce biofuel feedstock,» Khanna said.

To solve my conflict, I hope Sir Richard Branson hurry up to develop sustainably produced biofuels suitable for jet engines let me and let many people fly to participate meaningful activitys.

All industrially produced biofuel crops, edible or not, still require land, soil, water, fertilizer and other finite inputs.

And any land that is devoted to producing biofuel crops is not available to produce food.

Some new techniques for producing biofuels include the production of cellulosic ethanol made from inedible and wasted parts of feedstocks, like plant stems, leaves and stalks; wood residues such as straw, sawdust and papermill scraps and other agricultural waste.

The first plant outside of Reno won't start producing biofuels until the end of 2017.

The companies say the center will begin producing biofuels and bioenergy in 2012, and will create 175 jobs during the construction process and 50 jobs when the center is completed.

In addition the plants that are eventually used to produce biofuel pull carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, contributing to greener overall production process.

Using algae to produce biofuels requires growing conditions where the algae produce high levels of lipids.

Sewage, or more specifically sewage sludge, has long been viewed as a poor ingredient for producing biofuel because it's too wet.

And global pressure to produce biofuels rather than food may mean that hunger will not be erased anytime soon.

But scientists — who want to harness the potential of cells as living computers that can respond to disease, efficiently produce biofuels or develop plant - based chemicals — don't want to wait for evolution to craft their desired cellular system.

Jonathan Trent, the lead researcher on the project at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, said the effort has three goals: Produce biofuels with few resources in a confined area, help cleanse municipal wastewater, and sequester emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide that are produced along the way.

When you account for these factors, corn ethanol — currently the most widely produced biofuel in the United States — generates about 43 percent less carbon dioxide than gasoline.

Francis Arnold, another Caltech energy scientist, has a vision to artificially create enzymes by directed evolution synthesis using DNA technology to produce biofuels much more efficiently.

And the idea itself has an elegance that is rare in the energy field, which is the creation of an essentially closed loop solar powered plant producing biofuels that could be used for transportation or grid power production.

By adding irrigation water, some degraded or dry lands might produce biofuels while avoiding this competition with food and carbon storage.

Topics include scenario planning, resource modeling, community and stakeholder input processes, and analysis of locally produced biofuels, wind and solar energy opportunities (both distributed and large scale), battery storage, and other renewable energy options.

But the climate benefit is negligible: according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, deforestation, fertiliser, and fossil fuels used in producing biofuels offset about 90 per cent of the «saved» carbon dioxide.

Instead of feeding cereals to livestock, the report recommends «recycling food wastes and deploying new technologies, aimed at producing biofuels, to produce sugars from discards such as straw and even nutshells could be a key environmentally - friendly alternative to increased use of cereals for livestock.»

There are a number of companies trying to produce a biofuel alternative to petroleum - based aviation fuels, and a number of airlines have made biofuel test flights using various mixtures of biofuels, but none are yet available in commercial quantities.

In 2008 some startups promised to use synthetic biology to produce biofuels from pond scum.

With the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, he leads research on bio-designing yeast to improve the economics of sustainably produced biofuels.

In practical terms, that means that the amount of time it takes to payback the carbon debt of producing biofuel on that land to replace fossil fuels is even greater than we thought; and pretty much makes palm oil biodiesel produced in such conditions worse than petroleum - based diesel.

Companies that rely on producing biofuels and / or synthetic hydrocarbon fuels as a pathway to carbon removal will face increasing economic challenges with low oil prices.

Synthetic biologists aim to redesign bacterial cells for useful ends, such as producing biofuels or creating new types of medicines.

To put these numbers in perspective, USDA has estimated that in 2007, about 21 million acres were used worldwide to produce biofuel feedstocks, an area that would occupy somewhere between 0.4 % and 4 % of the world's estimated idle cropland.

Letter challenges unrealistic promises from an unsustainable industry United States — A diverse alliance of organizations published an open letter today in the U.S. and internationally warning of the dangers of industrially produced biofuels (called agrofuels by critics).

The components of algae are suitable not only for producing biofuels but also pigments, cosmetics components or hydrogels.

Fulcrum's Macias told the New York Times that the company will be able to produce its biofuel for «a lot less than» $ 1 a gallon.

A new collaboration between bio-bean and Shell is producing biofuel from coffee waste to help power London's bus network.

He is collaborating with Exxon Mobil to produce biofuels from algae and with Novartis to create vaccines.

Bolsen explained that it may not be ready to carry out the company's dream to produce a biofuel.

Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food - price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.

It's true that those of us who think like this are in a minority, caught between those who don't worry about the environmental costs of bioethanol and those who claim it is impossible to produce biofuels sustainably.

Two studies in the latest issue of the journal Science say that producing biofuels may actually produce more carbon dioxide than we would with conventional fuel.

By altering how plants turn sunlight into chemical energy, scientists hope to produce biofuels that make economic sense

Along with discussing the potential benefits — such as making seed vaccines in a day and producing biofuels — some debated whether Venter's part - artificial bacterium is a major advance or simply an extension of existing DNA technologies.