Sentences with phrase «with other biofuels»

Since the waste product already exists, it means creating the pellets requires no resource - intensive crop watering, as must be done with other biofuels.

Not exact matches

Icahn owns an 82 % stake in CVR Energy, which along with other refining companies, has called for changes to the Renewable Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.

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.

Moreover, as appetites for food and biofuels — made with palm, corn, and other plants — rise, more land is needed to accommodate agriculture.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

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.

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.

Algae is a desirable biofuel source because it doesn't compete with other plants that serve as sources of food.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

That is the bottom line for 111 environmental, watchdog, and other organizations that released a report today with specific recommendations for managing new biological techniques for building and remaking organisms for research and commercial uses ranging from medicines to biofuels.

Dutch airline KLM has completed a fifth jet biofuel test flight — and the first with passengers other than flight crew.

Although CWT currently has a supply agreement with Butterball for animal and food processing waste, the turkey company is now looking to sell excess fat and skin to other biofuel companies.

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.

Historically, commercial companies have outspent universities and the federal government at least 10 - to - 1 in research of algae fuels, an inverse pattern compared with investment for other forms of biofuels.

The Obama administration made a concerted effort to transform the U.S. transportation system with battery startups, regulations that ramp up the use of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, and a near doubling of fuel efficiency requirements for light - duty cars and trucks.

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.

Some technologies focus on improved ways of breaking down biomass for conversion into fuel, some on engineering plants with the characteristics most advantageous for biofuels, and still others on creating co-products that can help make advanced biofuels economically viable.

A key focus of the Center, which collaborates with other labs, including the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is to design new biologically based approaches to biofuel production.

For researchers working with biofuels, petroleum chemistry, aerosols, and other environmental samples where large collections of unidentified molecules are the norm, this information is going to be tremendously valuable.

While at BTI Laura worked with scientists and educators to designed lab activities and lessons to introduce students to proteins, carbohydrates, fats and other macromolecules while teaching about biofuels.

There is growing awareness of the urgency to produce sufficient foods, feeds, fibers, biofuels and other biomaterials to meet the needs of an expanding global population with growing expectations.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

Regions with strong natural - gas supplies may favor CNG, while others may promote biofuels use or electric power.

We support the work of the «Global Bioenergy Partnership» (GBEP) and invite it to work with other relevant stakeholders to develop science - based benchmarks and indicators for biofuel production and use.

With regard to difficulty, some parallels with other inefficient ideas like shale oil (tar sands), biofuels (particularly from corn), and on the way - out fringe, the moon and mWith regard to difficulty, some parallels with other inefficient ideas like shale oil (tar sands), biofuels (particularly from corn), and on the way - out fringe, the moon and mwith other inefficient ideas like shale oil (tar sands), biofuels (particularly from corn), and on the way - out fringe, the moon and mars.

I shot the photograph above during a brief excursion to the coast below the cliff - top town of Erice, Sicily, where scientists gathered last week to explore ways to limit the chances of devastating Internet assaults, overcome hurdles to securing nuclear waste, balance the production of biofuels with limits on agricultural land, and attack other «planetary emergencies» (in the quirky parlance of the organizer, Antonino Zichichi; Erice sits atop that bluff in the distance in the photograph).

The work as I understand it, (I have little contact it, and my closest colleague in biofuels, Prof Alex Farrell, met an unexpected death last month) makes quite ao constrast with the Exxon $ $ to Stanford, as the BP funds really hope to pry loose a way to mimic the way plants or termites or other organisms make sugars and alcohols or another form of usable biomass WITHOUT disrupting food, land water etc..

Two other catalysts have been reported in the last year, but the USA is staying mired in a mess with bioethanol and other useless biofuels programs that just recycle carbon dioxide rather ineffectively and do nothing to actually reduce some of the overload of that gas already in the atmosphere.

Today, companies like KiOR, Virent, and many others are moving forward with the next generation of biofuels.

Our modelling focuses on scenarios projecting how rapidly we can gain significant national fleet - wide reductions in fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions — with and without new PHEVs, conversions, other efficiencies, and low - carbon biofuels.

This is the new face of the old threat — that new land - based mitigation techniques, such as biochar, bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and other types of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) geoengineering approaches, as well as old «solutions» like biofuels, will compete with the use of land to feed people.

The ethanol lobby's ad shows President Obama with a devil on one shoulder and a figure with a halo on the other, saying he must choose to listen to his «own experts» or to «the oil industry,» which it says «is lying about biofuels.»

Last year, it signed agreements with six companies, including one in Brazil, and decided to drop its other renewable efforts to focus solely on biofuels.

For example, the portfolio of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of whose prominent partners is reported to have donated $ 2 million to oppose Prop 23, includes investments in biofuels, wind, solar and geothermal power, along with other green technologies, many of which would benefit if A.B. 32 were upheld.

Shere covers renewable energies fairly comprehensively, with chapters on biofuel, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, and various types of hydropower (from today's cutting - edge machines to extract power from currents, waves or tides to the intrigues surrounding the birth of commercial electricity in North America as George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla (among others) jockeyed for position.)

With biofuels, and all other alternative resources for energy, we might be able to curb the growing problem that is global warming and at the same time preserve the ecosystems of the world.

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

Provides opportunities for refineries to comply by blending biofuels, purchasing credits from utilities and others that sell electricity for EVs, reducing emissions associated with refining, and more

On a recent trip to Brazil to understand water - resources management with respect to biofuel crop and other agriculture, I learnt much more about Brazilian energy policy.

Certainly it's also a function of years of government - funded research, but other fields like wave power, instream hydro, and biofuels have had the same research with limited results.

Probably the biggest shortcomings in the bill are not the cap - and - trade portion but all the other sections, particularly those dealing with agriculture and biofuels.

However, with 35 % of U.S. corn being turned into biofuels, it clearly has a major effect on the price, driving it upwards (and driving other commodities higher as well, as farmland becomes more scarce).

Renewable diesel fuel (other): Diesel fuel and diesel fuel blending components produced from renewable sources that are coprocessed with petroleum feedstocks and meet requirements of advanced biofuels.

It seems like massive planes are a long ways off, but any bit helps, so maybe biofuels are one solution with electronic planes the other, and if at least one works then we're good.

Clinton said countries would give incentives instead of barriers» over biofuel imports if Brazil manages to prove it «can help other people with their emission problems without making yours worse.»

(For fossil fuels, tax assessed preferably at the mine or well, to reduce paperwork and make enforcement efficient (as opposed to the exhaust pipe)-- but then a compensating credit for fossil C used in materials unlikely to be oxidized, etc, with compensating tariff / subsidy for trade between nations with differing policies; attempt at least approximate CO2eq tax for other sources so as to not distort the market (don't encourage too much deforestation for biofuels, don't forget about cement production, don't forget about cows, etc.)-RRB-.

Today they have a solar kettle for sterilizing water and solar kitchen, and a 19,800 - acre reforestation project with species chosen to produce resins for biofuels, as well as, for creating conditions upon which other native plants can flourish.

With this in mind, climate change could be just another unique opportunity for weeds and other hardy plants to fulfill other roles: as potential biofuel candidates (kudzu, swtichgrass and jatropha for example), as a source of natural materials for furniture, or even as food — because weeds are evolving, just as we are.

PF: It needs to hire bright, young people with the intellectual rigor and curiosity to get out of the investment banking stranglehold focusing on biofuels and large - scale wind and solar and start looking at other technologies within cleantech.