Sentences with phrase «transportation fuel needs»

Even if all the corn grain available were converted to ethanol, however, it would meet only 15 — 18 % of current transportation fuel needs.

«If a quarter of all agricultural land — about 60 million acres — were devoted to energy, we would need a 1 percent efficiency to meet all the transportation fuel needs of the United States,» Alivisatos says.

«Oil is used primarily for transportation, and alternatives for transportation fuel needs to be found,» according to one CEO.

Not exact matches

«When we really looked at our dependence on fossil fuels for practically everything needed to live comfortably in Maine — home heating, transportation to work and school, even getting Hannaford's shelves restocked every 5 days — an ecologically - minded cohousing community seemed like one viable and attractive alternative.

«I think states recognize transportation emissions are a leading source of emissions that need to be tackled,» said Luke Tonachel, director of the clean vehicles and fuels project at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

But Keasling has estimated in the past that a mere 40.5 million hectares of Miscanthus giganteus — a more than three - meter tall Asian grass — chewed up by specially engineered microbes, like the E. coli here, could produce enough fuel to meet all U.S. transportation needs.

The only likely exception to the rule against biofuels in transportation is the urgent need to decarbonise air transport, where low - carbon alternatives to liquid hydrocarbon fuels remain a distant prospect.

Moniz notes that just 0.1 cent per kilowatt - hour of electricity and 2 cents per gallon of transportation fuels would yield about $ 8 billion per year, although such surcharges would need to be developed «with collaboration from industry and consumers.

There are some transportation needs that simply must have a low - carbon liquid fuel alternative.

«In the meantime, Americans still need liquid transportation fuels.

Policymakers who want to decarbonize the transportation sector will need to move beyond hype and find better ways to assess and sustain promising technologies and fuels, suggests a study from Simon Fraser University, Canadian consulting firm Navius Research, and the University of California, Davis.

«Alternative fuels need more than hype to drive transportation market.»

Thirty years of alternative fuel hype have failed to deliver sales; Public attention has jumped from one alternative fuel to the next since the 1980s; To decarbonize transportation, policymakers need better ways to assess technologies.

It is commonly accepted that there is an urgent need for sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels for transportation to replace diesel and petrol.

Keasling has estimated that in the past such engineered microbes would need to chew up only 40.5 million hectares — roughly one quarter of the current amount of land devoted to raising crops in the U.S. — of a common tall Asian grass to produce enough fuel to meet all of the U.S.'s transportation needs.

The military is entirely dependent on petroleum - derived jet fuel to meet its transportation needs.

Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy - duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University....

Nuclear power is not «too cheap to meter,» and in fact, despite hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies and in ratepayer charges, nuclear power greatly trails other fuels as a source of electricity and is useless in providing for the world's other major energy needs, including transportation.

For example, a growing scarcity of fossil fuels and the need to stem the environmental damages caused by climate change will undoubtedly lead to a substantial increase in the use of public transportation.

«There is a pressing need for a game - changing approach to produce alternative, drop - in, liquid transportation fuels by sustainable, technologically viable and environmentally acceptable emissions processes from abundant, low - cost, renewable materials.

We also need to «make carbs count» by creating performance - based policies that will reward low - carbon transportation fuels for their performance.

Overall, Toyota Corolla is a perfect choice if you need a small reliable and fuel - efficient transportation.

Green Dodge Caravan *** Helping our neighbors and yours with their transportation needs for 30 years *** SE 4dr Mini-Van 191644 Flexible Fuel

Red Ford F - 150 *** Helping our neighbors and yours with their transportation needs for 30 years *** 4x4 King Ranch 4dr SuperCrew 5.5 ft. SB 65739 Flexible Fuel

It's smaller, more affordable and possibly more fuel efficient than a loaded minivan, providing the basic necessities of transportation to folks who need added seating capacity.

If you have a car, there's a good chance a significant portion of your income goes into keeping it fueled, maintained, and otherwise ready to tackle your transportation needs.

One notable idiosyncrasy of tropical transportation, however, is that tuk - tuks tend to contain little fuel until a customer needs a ride.

The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

Cities need to be revamped for sustainable, independent food supplies, for decreased our reliance on fossil - fueled transportation and increased walk - and bike - friendliness, and for energy efficiency.

-- the need for a transportation fuel that is produced with no emissions of greenhouse gases (his research focus),

A major infrastructural change to our transportation sector is needed, and that change must come from the federal government through direct, targeted policy aimed at eliminating our use of hydrocarbon fuel in cars, trucks, and airplanes.

So we need to break the oil monopoly in transportation fuels and let market forces do the rest.

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

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It discriminates both on its face, and as applied, against transportation fuels and fuel feedstocks imported from outside of California with the intended effect of (i) promoting in - state production of transportation fuels, and (ii) «keep [ing] consumer dollars local by reducing the need to make fuel purchases from beyond [California's] borders.»

Advancing clean fuels: we need to end our reliance on fossil fuels to power our transportation sector.

Oil and natural gas would no longer be needed as the feedstock for transportation fuel production.

Hydrogen burns in air, so one can easily imagine using hydrogen instead of fossil fuels to supply energy for our transportation needs that can not be met by electric trolleys and trains.

«California has been a world leader in reducing air pollution from vehicles, and now we need to lead on diversifying our transportation fuels and using cleaner alternative fuels.»

JCAP researchers are focused on achieving the major scientific breakthroughs needed to produce liquid transportation fuels from a combination of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, using artificial photosynthesis.

The American energy revolution has done more than just provide record amounts of oil and natural gas to fuel our transportation needs or generate electricity and heat our homes, schools and businesses.

By the end of 2017, 11 RNG projects in Canada will be online producing enough renewable fuel to meet the energy needs of 51,000 homes or supplying 137 million liters of renewable fuel for transportation markets.

Our nation's refineries provide us with high - quality fuels used for transportation, energy for heat and light, and petrochemicals needed to manufacture the products we use every day.

Rud — we do need a source of funding for transportation infrastructure, but I think a fuel tax ignores the fact that even people with no personal vehicle benefit from roads.

In the context of fossil fuel production and transportation, underground is home to a number of activities about which the public has a dire need to be well informed.

Compared with the normal population, we would expect the overweight population to have higher transportation fuel energy use because of the additional fuel energy needed to transport heavier people.

While ground transportation can be moved to batteries or perhaps natural gas or even hydrogen, the future need for liquid fuels would still persist for aircraft as far as I know.

Dr. Ramage chaired the National Acdemies reports «The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs», «Resource Requirements for a Hydrogen Economy», «Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass», and «Transitions To Alternative Transportation Technologies: A Focus on Plug - In Hybrid Electric Vehicles».

There are no reasonable alternative liquid fuels for land, sea and air transportation needs.