And farmers have figured out
a way for ethanol to be more energy - producing than energy - consuming.
Not exact matches
For cellulosic to make its
way onto the market, federal policy will need to do more to encourage distribution of higher blends of
ethanol, the
ethanol industry says.
While the project is focused on
ethanol, the company says it is optimistic that its efforts will pave the
way to try similar emission controls
for fossil fuels like coal.
«But there are
ways to obtain
ethanol for fuel from fermentation that produce something that chemically is very much like beer — so beer is an excellent readily available model to test our technology.»
Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much
for all - electric cars as
for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or
ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the
way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).
Khanna says that a price on carbon would be one
way to equalize the cost of using gasoline and
ethanol for consumers when filling up their tank.
Once imbibed, alcohol —
ethanol, actually — makes its
way to cell membranes,
for example in the nervous system, where it increases their fluidity, much like milk makes cereal soggy.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have developed a catalyst that easily converts bio-based
ethanol to a widely used industrial chemical, paving the
way for more environmentally friendly, bio-based plastics and products.
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The only
way this will ever happen is if a political coalition, like the one
for corn
ethanol, can be assembled that will stick taxpayers and consumers with the bill.
Some green activists supported mandates
for biofuel, hoping they would pave the
way for next - generation
ethanol, which would use non-food plants.
The researchers examined three
ways of using sunlight to power cars: a) the traditional method of converting corn or other plants to
ethanol; b) converting energy crops into electricity
for BEVs rather than producing
ethanol; and C) using PVs to convert sunlight directly into electricity
for BEVs.
For now, setting aside acreage and letting it return to native vegetation was rated the best
way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, outweighing the results of corn -
ethanol production over the first 48 years.
The search
for new strategies generally falls in two camps:
ways to use organic stuff other than corn to make
ethanol, and
ways to manipulate organisms to produce a different fuel identical to gasoline or diesel.
Corn is not the
way for E85, but cellulose
ethanol might be.
And yet
for 2017, EPA projected 311 million
ethanol equivalent gallons would be available, and three quarters of the
way through the year, only 158 million gallons were produced.
Industrial Hemp is not smokeable (its THC content is
way to low) it's a great energy crop
for making
ethanol, biodiesel and plastics (or just use the hemp fibers outright), its only disadvantage is that it looks just like the hemp meant
for getting high.
Plant material is used in a variety of
ways to create energy: combusted to produce heat or electricity; anaerobically digested to produce methane; and converted to
ethanol, biodiesel, or hydrogenated vegetable oil
for fuel.
NERA set up its study that
way for good reasons: Despite abundant evidence that RFS mandates
for ever - increasing
ethanol use in the nation's fuel supply are detached from reality, and although it's pretty clear EPA has mismanaged the RFS to the detriment of those obligated to meet its mandates — the
ethanol industry insists that the program continue as statutorily set out in 2007.
The Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CFRA) is dedicated to promoting the growth of biofuels such as
ethanol and biodiesel as a
way to not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but channel a largely untapped source
for Canadian jobs and local
Researchers at the University of Northern Iowa's Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) are looking at
ways to use the state's mixed prairie plantings as a source of renewable energy — as biomass to produce
ethanol or to burn
for electricity.
This has contributed to driving the cost of corn
way up over the last year or two (there are other factors
for the increase as well such as drought in Australia and booming demand among new middle classes in China and elsewhere but
ethanol production is a big culprit).