Sentences with phrase «with liquid biofuels»

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Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.

Because the salt solvent, known as ionic liquids, interferes with later stages in biofuels production, it needs to be removed before proceeding, a process that takes time and money.

«Armed with the rcdA variant, we were able to engineer a strain of E. coli that could not only tolerate ionic liquid, but that could also produce ionic - liquid - tolerant enzymes that chew up the cellulose, make sugars, eat it and make biofuels,» said Frederix.

After treating a common cellulosic biofuels plant called switchgrass with a compound known as an ionic liquid (IL) to break apart the plant fibers and reduce the lignin, the researchers added their engineered E. coli.

The discovery of inexpensive ionic liquids that are compatible with, or improve the performance of, enzymes and biofuel and bioproduct microbial hosts and can be efficiently recycled

Liquid fuel providers — producing and selling diesel fuel, gasoline, or biofuels — and electricity providers — «fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete for the transportation dollar.

The report warned that increasing production of liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, could increase the price of agricultural commodities with negative economic and social impacts, especially for the world's poor who spend a large proportion of income on food.

Such second - generation liquid biofuels produced from woody biomass rather than from food crops would also reduce competition with food production.

Other factors may reduce demand on forests for energy production, for example, technological problems with liquid cellulosic biofuel production and transportation - related constraints.

(Note: EIA includes biofuels with fossil fuel liquids; we're counting them with renewables.)

The idea that we could fight a war with corn ethanol and soy biodiesel, (which account for about 99.9 percent of our liquid biofuels) is ludicrous, which is why the military has been funding research for alternatives.

photo: jurveston via flickr Algae biofuels are probably the most touted future hope to replace large amounts of petroleum - based liquid fuels with a renewable source.

That said, some sort of tax system for liquid fuels with a rebate for those buying approved biofuels might be part of such a system.