Sentences with phrase «well as biofuels»

The nation's energy portfolio is expanding to include larger investments in wind, solar, and tidal energy, as well as biofuels such as algae and fuel crops, presenting new conflicts and tradeoffs.

Other transformation includes refineries, as well as biofuel or hydrogen production.

Not exact matches

Second generation biofuels, he added, offered a better solution as they don't compete for water and land with food production systems.

While biofuels are better in the long run, the study says they won't meet a standard set in a 2007 energy law to qualify as renewable fuel.

Large biofuel firms like Abengoa Bioenergy U.S., Iberdrola U.S.A., Pacific Ethanol, and POET joined the pledge, while some of the biggest agriculture firms — like Cargill and Monsanto (MON)-- did as well.

«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.

GEX holds a wide spectrum of companies that earn at least 1/2 their revenues from the broader renewable energy industry, which includes solar, wind, biofuel and geothermal players, as well as companies focused on energy efficiency.

U.S. federal subsidies for renewable energy, which includes biofuels as well as renewable electricity generation, has declined by 56 percent since 2013, dipping to $ 6.7 billion in 2016.

But when oil companies (and governments) talk about oil supply, they include all sorts of things that can not be sold as oil on the world market including biofuels, refinery gains and natural gas plant liquids as well as lease condensate.

The Science Advanced biofuels that are derived from cellulose (such as wood chips or cornstalks) are well along in the labs, but they need substantial investment to bring them to the marketplace.

This means developing more of America's own energy resources, including wind, solar, clean coal, biofuels, nuclear energy, as well as oil and natural gas — which will reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil and create thousands of jobs here at home.

But the environmental price tag of biofuels now joins the ranks of other, cheaper domestic fuel sources — such as coal - to - liquid fuel — as major sources of globe - warming pollution as well as unintended social consequences.

Interest in algae - based biofuels has blossomed in the past year, sparking major investments from Exxon Mobil Corp. and Dow Chemical Co., and it has gained steam on Capitol Hill, as well.

But even better would be biofuels that use cheap, widespread plant matter such as leaves and grasses rather than food crops.

The authors find that the main barriers to large - scale deployment of both macro - and micro-algae, include high demands of key resources for algal growth (such as nutrients, water and CO ₂), difficulty in maintaining selected species with high productivity content in outdoor culture, as well as high energy requirements and costs of algal production and conversion into biofuels.

Still missing from consideration are the cost differences between electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines, as well as other possible environmental effects of biofuel technology such as increased air pollution and water use.

Geobacter are naturally occurring microbes that have proved promising in cleaning up nuclear waste as well in improving other biofuel processes.

For plant oil — based biofuels, such as jatropha, the main obstacle is the lack of research and practice in large - scale commercial cultivation, as well as mechanized harvesting.

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

Right now, indirect land use related to biofuels isn't included in proposed climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate, as well as proposed agreements that will be on the table in Copenhagen.

«There's substantial disagreement on possible future yields of energy crops,» he said, as well as questions on the consequences of growing biofuels on water supply.

DARPA supported the work as part of the agency's effort to craft living foundries for new materials, whether medicinal molecules or better biofuels.

This first - of - its - kind test flight was part of an ongoing Air Force effort to prove that planes perform just as well with biofuel in the tank.

That's because the core of making jet biofuel is much the same as the core of making conventional fuel: hydroprocessing, or the adding of hydrogen to existing hydrocarbons in order to remove oxygen and other impurities as well as build the right molecule.

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.»

Though often illegal, the forests are cut down both for a booming pulp and paper industry as well as to clear land for oil palm plantations, which supply diverse industries from biofuel to soap to cosmetics.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

According to the researchers, these principles (as well as four more outlined in the paper) are enough to begin guiding sound policy decisions for producing sustainable biofuels.

But each would - be jet biofuel — maker faces other challenges as well.

But the biofuel crop has already come in for criticism both because it is displacing cereals in other places where it is grown, such as Kenya and Tanzania, as well as requiring fertilizers to get good oil yields.

Though the study has clear implications for cellulosic, or second - generation, biofuel production in the Midwest, Hamilton says it touches more broadly on some of the expected effects of climate change as well.

Plant species provide a wide variety of benefits, including products such as wood, food and biofuels, as well as services such as recreation, water purification, buffers against floods and support for animal biodiversity.

«If we're going to rely on biofuels as a significant part of a diverse portfolio of renewable technology,» then harvesting trees is the best way to go, he said.

For example, the RSF1010 origin - derived pKT plasmids developed here are able to replicate in a wide range of Gram - negative bacteria (e.g., Enterococci) as well as the phylogenetically distant cyanobacteria, which are also important hosts of interest for biofuels production [10].

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

Microarray analysis was performed at different time points to determine yeast genome - wide response when exposed to salt, acid, hypoxic conditions, and hydrogen peroxide, as well as ethanol, isopentenol, and other biofuels candidates.

«The long - term goal is to understand the stability and targeting mechanisms important to synthetic biology applications involving, for example, chemical sensing between living cells and electronic detectors as well as the development of biofuel cells.»

The need to address uncertainties applies to other areas the analysis as well, and we urge you to evaluate the increasing use of nitrogen fertilizers and herbicides associated with greater biofuel production.

Using corn as a biofuel seems like a good idea in principle.

Improvements in the speed and cost of DNA synthesis are enabling scientists to design and synthesize modified bacterial chromosomes that can be used in the production of advanced biofuels, bio-products, renewable chemicals, bio-based specialty chemicals (pharmaceutical intermediates, fine chemicals, food ingredients), and in the health care sector as well.

The aim of the new study, then, was to combine ecological and economic models into one, to get a better sense of the potential costs and benefits of grasses as biofuels.

The researchers targeted Chromochloris zofingiensis, a single - celled green alga that has drawn commercial interest as one of the highest producers of the best lipids for biofuel production.

The group, led by principal investigator and Ames Laboratory scientist Emily Smith, is receiving $ 1 million a year for three years from the DOE's Office of Science to develop a subdiffraction Raman imaging platform that will provide an unprecedented look at the specific chemical structures of plant cell walls and then determine how best to deconstruct plant material as a source of biofuels.

«It can be used in existing engines and transported in existing pipelines,» whereas some current biofuels, such as ethanol, do not fit as well into today's commercial fuel infrastructure, he said.

These fuels should be seen as part of an expanded renewable energy portfolio that emphasizes greater fuel efficiency and reduced demand as well as the development of new sustainable energy technologies that may one day go beyond biofuels.

With biofuels, Bentley promises to cut CO2 emissions by at least 15 percent across the entire vehicle line by 2012, as well as offer a new powertrain that improves fuel economy by 40 percent.

The algae is one that can be used for biofuel as well as being researched for health benefits.

Last month Boeing, the Natural Resources Defense Council and others in the airline industry announced the creation of a group to study the prospects for biofuel jets, citing the oil - price volatility that has rocked the aviation industry, as well as efforts to cut carbon.

The advantage of isobutanol, he said, is that unlike some other biofuels, it does not freeze at 15,000 feet and continues burning very well in the subzero temperatures as high as 35,000 feet.

They also worked with Ericsson to use waste cooking oil blended with diesel to power over 350 base stations throughout India, as well as using biofuel to power stations in Africa.