Sentences with phrase «use of biofuel including»

[3] The Indonesian government is planning to boost domestic use of biofuel including from palm oil, with extra subsidies and a mandatory target of 15 % biofuel blended into diesel fuel.

Not exact matches

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.

Catsimatidis told The Post that his lobbyists, including the well - connected firm Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz, «are trying to get it done» and that he's «hopeful» the biofuel mandate — forcing homeowners and businesses to use a mix of traditional petroleum heating oil with soybean - and other vegetable - based oils — will be approved this year.

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.

The Navy's effort extends beyond just biofuels, of course, and includes projects such as lightening loads for U.S. marines by using solar cells to replace heavy batteries.

«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.

Boeing was involved in all four flights, including a Virgin Atlantic flight using a coconut - and babassu - derived biofuel blend; an Air New Zealand flight using a jatropha - derived biofuel blend; a Continental Airlines flight using a blend of algae - and jatropha - derived biofuel; and a Japan Airlines flight using an algae -, jatropha - and camelina - derived biofuel blend.

Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin — Madison researchers show in a study today (April 2, 2015) that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four - year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands.

This book provides a thorough assessment of the factors that influence global food insecurity, including rising energy prices, water scarcity, increased biofuel use, and expanding populations.

[10][11] Among other advantages, the micro turbines used in the C - X75 can be run on a range of fuels including diesel, biofuels, compressed natural gas and liquid petroleum gas.

Around the world, 64 countries have or are considering increasing the amount of biofuels used in transport fuel [3], including most recently Indonesia [4].

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.

Moreover, biofuel mandates and subsidies tend to push land out of other carbon - sequestering uses including food production.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

Obama's energy plan would use some of the revenue generated from the cap - and - trade permit auction to invest in climate - friendly energy development including advanced biofuels, locally - owned biofuel refineries, low - carbon coal technologies, and nuclear power.

It includes evidence on size and impacts of «indirect land use change» resulting from biofuel use.

The president - elect is also expected to pander less to the oil industry that the prior administration, instead promoting use of renewable energy including solar, wind, geothermal, and next generation biofuels.

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

Besides costing the global economy trillions of dollars, the threat of AGW has been used to justify everything from biofuels (which have led to the destruction of rain forests and increases in food prices, especially damaging to the world's poor) to the blighting of countryside with wind farms and solar panels (which have wreaked havoc with economies including Spain's).

«Now, hemp is being used in an even greater variety of products, including health foods, organic body care, clothing, construction materials, biofuels, plastic composites and more.

Among the changes: requiring the E.P.A. to include «indirect land use changes» in analyzing biofuels and their effect on emissions of climate - changing greenhouse gases.

Ways to reduce fossil fuel inputs to food systems include the use of farm machinery powered by renewable electricity or farm - produced biofuels; the localization of food systems to reduce transport (perhaps entailing vertical urban agriculture); the adoption of organic and ecological production practices to reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides; and an overall reduction in the consumption of highly processed foods.

In particular, many criticisms converge around grain - based biofuel, traditional farming practices, and claims of a causal link between U.S. land use and land - use changes elsewhere, including tropical deforestation.

[11] The particular confusion here is that a broad category of non-land-use CO2 emissions is frequently called «fossil fuel emissions», even though it usually includes modern biofuels used for energy, and often non-energy industrial CO2 emissions (e.g. from cement manufacturing) as well.

Obama noted that there has been progress in the transportation sector, including the increased use of vehicles that are powered by biofuels and natural gas, as well as the auto industry's more efficient production methods involving traditional engines.

However some of the measures mentioned in the speech this week include 3.4 % biofuel as a portion of fuel sales by 2012 (which will be music to the ears of the Diversa project Tim reported on), plus all government agencies are to use energy efficient transport and buildings, reduce fuel bills and buy only recycled paper.

The study used high - resolution satellite images to identify where cropland expanded between 2008 and 2012, the four years following the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates the use of renewable fuels including biofuels.

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.

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.»)