Sentences with phrase «use of biofuel in»

Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far - flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.

, which would increase the use of biofuel in home heating oil, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

- Promoting and rushing the use of biofuels in one of the biggest markets in the world can cause indirect social impacts in the place of their production or manufacture, for the simple reason that biofuels take up land.

Promoting and rushing the use of biofuels in one of the biggest markets in the world can cause indirect social impacts in the place of their production or manufacture, for the simple reason that biofuels take up land.

Even the relatively small use of biofuels in Europe that relies on North American wood pellets is already causing land - use impacts in the southeastern United States (John Upton of Climate Central has recently published an excellent report on this titled Pulp Fiction).

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After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

Ten years ago Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla famously predicted that with biofuels there is «no doubt that 100 % of our gasoline use can be displaced in the next 25 years.»

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

In addition, 82 % of Sodexo's accounts are recovering used cooking oil to be reused as a sustainable biofuel.

According to Lupardo, both the stalk and seed from hemp can be used in the production of a variety of goods including textiles, building materials, paper, food, and environmental products such as biofuels.

The use of petrol and diesel engines to power cars will also need to be «much less dominant» and replaced with electric power and biofuels, a policy meeting in the House of Commons heard.

The biofuels mandate would require all petroleum - based heating oil sold in the state to contain 2 percent or more of soybean oil and / or spent vegetable oils, such as those used in frying foods, a supposed effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

Indeed, there is progress in developing biofuels for the airline industry, so to abate carbon monoxide emissions and lead - based hazards; however, if the Ranch planes are not currently using biofuels exclusively, it is difficult to accept the integrity of Tracey's platform.

«We want to be the nation's leader in hemp production,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday shortly before signing legislation intended to boost the commercialization of industrial hemp, which is used in some 25,000 products from cosmetics and animal feed to clothing and biofuels.

Osman is hoping to continue his research into how these catalysts can be further improved and explore the opportunities for commercialisation of biofuel production or use the modified alumina catalyst in the catalytic converters in natural gas vehicles.

In April, the US government launched a National Bioeconomy Blueprint, which foresees hugely increased biofuel use and the construction of giant refineries that churn out plastics, fibres and chemicals made by genetically engineered plants.

Increasingly, it is used in the commercial food industry due to its high content of saturated fat, and it has even been tested as a potential biofuel.

In a paper released for discussion in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gaIn a paper released for discussion in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gain the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Crutzen calculated that 3 to 5 percent of the nitrogen in the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gain the fertilizers used to raise crops for biofuels could end up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gain the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a potent, long - lived greenhouse gas.

But it's hard to get excited about biofuels when they already have such a bad rep.. The use of corn and sugar in fuels has driven up the cost of food by a whopping 75 percent worldwide, according to a recent report by the World Bank.

In addition, changing the land use from wild grasslands to cropland can minimize the carbon benefits of biofuels (ClimateWire, April 6).

In contrast, soot produced by burning biofuels is often a product of dung - or wood - powered cookstoves used indoors and in densely populated areaIn contrast, soot produced by burning biofuels is often a product of dung - or wood - powered cookstoves used indoors and in densely populated areain densely populated areas.

And unlike the corn used to produce ethanol in the United States, algae do not compete with food for farmland, one of the biggest problems with current biofuels.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

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.

Boeing has tested two such «vegetable - based biofuels» with this antifreezing property in the General Electric jet engines used on many of its 747 aircraft, Daggett says.

This is obvious in the most egregious example of all: the clearing of tropical rainforest in Malaysia and Indonesia for oil - palm plantations, at least a third of which are used to produce feedstocks for biofuels (the rest goes into processed food, from chocolate to cooking oil, and cosmetics).

«We know that, in many ways, land use can have severe ecological impacts, for example, biodiversity loss; an extreme and inequitable competition for land, water and energy; and carbon emissions, an adverse impact of converting corn to biofuels.

The topic is one of many covered in the broad UNEP survey of issues surrounding «sustainable» production and use of biofuels and notes wide variation in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and increases that biofuels can spur.

«API supports the use of advanced biofuels, including cellulosic biofuels, once they are commercially viable and in demand by consumers.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

Even in a cool climate as in Finland, algae might be used to produce biochemicals and biofuels, besides use in capture of industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Thus, up to 86 % of the biofuels used in the EU in 2013 achieved the certificate of sustainability, in accordance with the Community norms.

This signaling pathway could be used to optimize the photosynthetic efficiency of plants subject to water and nutrient deficiencies, with potential applications in agriculture and reactor - based crop development for green chemistry and algae - based biofuel solutions.

Chemical engineer Inés Reyero Zaragoza proposed the substitution of methanol by ethanol for the production of biodiesel and the use of a heterogeneous catalyst, which will «result in a reduction of costs and in the environmental impact associated with the production of this biofuel.»

«These results reinforce the need for public policies to encourage the use of biofuels, as they clearly show that the public loses in health what they save at the pump when opting for gasoline,» Artaxo said.

The reason using existing cropland for biofuels tends not to show up as yielding large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is simply because those croplands are already absorbing large quantities of carbon.

«Bacteria development marks new era in cellular design: Scientists have built a miniature scaffold inside bacteria that can be used to bolster cellular productivity, with implications for the next generation of biofuel production.»

The oil industry unsuccessfully urged the EPA to lower the federal mandate to use 16.55 billion gallons of biofuels in 2013, saying it would unduly burden refiners.

For example, the metabolically engineered microbes that are sometimes used to produce biofuels and chemicals are currently subject to genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations, while the molecules they produce are subject to chemical regulations such as the Toxic Substances Control Act in the United States and the regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) in Europe.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

Monroe Energy, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that operates the Trainer refinery complex in Pennsylvania, said the EPA's decision not to cut 2013 biofuel targets did not take into account that companies might need to carry over some ethanol credits for use in 2014, when it finalized the 2013 targets.

Unfortunately, the enzymes used in past glucose biofuel cells were not suitable for implants, because they either required highly acidic conditions to work or were inhibited by a variety of ions found in the body.

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.

Materials such as carbon - coated magnets, which can be used as catalysts in biorefineries — say, in the production of biofuels — have been produced in the reactor.

In writing about the use of second - generation biomass, such as plant waste and paper, to produce biofuels, Helen Knight did...

In less than five minutes, Ingber, the institute's 56 - year - old director, has pointed out a mattress that could prevent life - threatening sleep apnea in newborns; simulated lungs, intestines, and hearts made of silicone rubber using microchip manufacturing technology; and a machine that forces mutations in bacteria, directing their evolution so they can produce low - cost biofuels and drugIn less than five minutes, Ingber, the institute's 56 - year - old director, has pointed out a mattress that could prevent life - threatening sleep apnea in newborns; simulated lungs, intestines, and hearts made of silicone rubber using microchip manufacturing technology; and a machine that forces mutations in bacteria, directing their evolution so they can produce low - cost biofuels and drugin newborns; simulated lungs, intestines, and hearts made of silicone rubber using microchip manufacturing technology; and a machine that forces mutations in bacteria, directing their evolution so they can produce low - cost biofuels and drugin bacteria, directing their evolution so they can produce low - cost biofuels and drugs.

Professor McGeehan said: «The engineering process is much the same as for enzymes currently being used in bio-washing detergents and in the manufacture of biofuels — the technology exists and it's well within the possibility that in the coming years we will see an industrially viable process to turn PET and potentially other substrates like PEF, PLA, and PBS, back into their original building blocks so that they can be sustainably recycled.»

Palm oil also has the best energy balance of any commercial product currently used in biofuel applications, yielding about 9 times the energy required to produce it, according to Dr. Martienssen.

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.