What I wish he would do - instead of making a priori assumptions about
the value of ethanol for our energy policy - is put a task force together consisting of opponents and proponents - and let them document the pros and cons around all of the sticking points.
The absolute
value of ethanol blends has also been contested.
Not exact matches
A U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S.
ethanol producers
of 366 million liters,
valued at around $ 170 million.
A U.S. Department
of Agriculture report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S.
ethanol producers
of 366 million liters,
valued at around $ 170 million.
Production
of an Acetone - Butanl -
Ethanol Mixture from Clostridium Acetobutylicum and Its Conversion to High -
Value Biofuels, Sanil Sreekumar, Zachary C. Baer, Anbarasan Pazhamalai, Gorkem Gunbas, Adam Grippo, Harvey W. Blanch, Douglas S. Clark, F. Dean Toste, Nature Protocols, doi: 10.1038 / nprot.2015.029, February 2015.
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Archer - Daniels - Midland Company is a processor
of oilseeds, corn, wheat, cocoa, and other agricultural commodities and manufactures protein meal, vegetable oil, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel,
ethanol, and other
value - added food and feed ingredients.
The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based
ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the
ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion
of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage
of lower -
value crops or if idled land is brought into production.
(The wiki
values imply densities
of 0.72 to 0.74 kg / L for gasoline, 0.762 for Gasohol E10 (10 %
ethanol by volume); for 0.73 kg / L and a composition
of 84.117 to 85 wt % C (the former calculated for octane, the later given by an encyclopedia (Britannica Macropedia entry «Chemical Elements» p. 945, sorry don't know the year, I'm looking at a photocopy) for petroleum, g CO2 / gal from combustion should be 8517 to 8606.
Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University
of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a
value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a
value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average
value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic
ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.
But your comments are irrelevant to whether sugar cane
ethanol makes sense in itself Its the EROI
value of 10 which saying that
ethanol made sense in itself on energy terms.
The study also found that both BTL - RC - CCS (biomass - to - liquids, with recycling
of unconverted syngas to maximize FTL output and CCS) and cellulosic
ethanol with CCS (EtOH - CCS) have negative GHGI emission
values that can be exploited to offset GHG missions from difficult to decarbonize energy sources such as transportation fuels derived from crude oil.
An independent panel
of academic scientists for the National Research Council
of the National Academy
of Sciences — reviewing the conflicting work
of Searchinger, Wang and several others — concluded in a 2011 report that «corn - grain
ethanol might not have lower [greenhouse gas emission]
values than petroleum - based gasoline.»
New Zealand - based Lanzatech, the developer
of gas fermentation technology for producing
ethanol and high
value chemicals (e.g.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum
of understanding with one
of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to build a demonstration plant to... Read more →
Its only practical
value was in spurring the production
of flexible fuel engines in automobiles which are prerequisite to switching from mostly gasoline to mostly
ethanol.
(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production
of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity
of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less
of domestic
ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass
ethanol, and for coproducing
value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.
«SunSprings plant operations will begin with production
of Joule Sunflow ™ - E to compete in the
ethanol market,
valued at approximately $ 64 billion.
Between 1997 and 2007 US farmland declined by ~ 33 million acres [1]: if that land were put back into corn production, it could produce 14 billion gallons
of biofuel
ethanol [2] plus the additional food
value of the DDGS.