Sentences with phrase «year as the biofuel»

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After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

Icahn's efforts last year to overhaul the biofuels program - while acting as an adviser to Trump on regulatory issues - drew scrutiny from federal investigators after lawmakers said it raised ethical concerns.

But even without record - breaking heat, recent years have seen food riots from Bangladesh to Haiti as world agriculture was pushed to the breaking point by a combination of greater demand for food, biofuels and poor weather.

As Boeing's Daggett says: «There are still a lot of hurdles to overcome, but 10 to 20 years is a reasonable time frame for production of biofuels from algae.»

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.

Rennie: The economic challenge is of course that basically all of these kinds of biofuels are ultimately in competition with regular old gasoline that you would have to pump and for as long as oil is really, really cheap, which, you know, for most part we are sort of happily in the situation that's it is a lot less expensive than it was a couple of years ago.

As it stands, however, the Navy has spent more than $ 5 billion more than budgeted in the past year just on oil and it has set a goal of securing half its fuel needs from biofuels by 2020.

Growing crops for fuel — known as biofuels — represents another potential way of cutting GHGs by replacing fossil fuels (biofuels created underground by nature over millions of years).

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.»

Biofuel Shell is particularly interested in biofuels, especially algae, as is ExxonMobil, which last year invested $ 600 million in Craig Venter's company Synthetic Genomics.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

The next five years will be dominated by compressed natural gas (CNG) and natural - gas based methanol, Rosner forecast, with battery and biofuel technology penetrating the market as technologies improve.

Congress has restored the military's ability to buy biofuels, such as those that fueled this U.S. Navy exercise earlier this year.

In contrast, the grasses and other flowers and plants that grow naturally when such lands are left fallow — species such as goldenrod, frost aster, and couch grass, among others — can deliver roughly the same amount of biofuel energy per hectare per year if fertilized, yet also reducing CO2 by more than twice as much as corn.

The 2015 Survey of Non-Starch Ethanol and Renewable Hydrocarbon Biofuels Producers provides an inventory of the domestic advanced biofuels production industry as of the end of calendar year 2015, documenting important... Read more →

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.

The focus on «sustainable» biofuels is a step back from several years of overheated pursuit of farmed fuels as a large - scale energy source.]

As discussed, the wild card of biofuels confounded expectations for the past 15 years.

We need to avoid getting locked - in to «inferior» technologies, such as «first generation» biofuels, which just a few years ago were considered a slam - dunk carbon - neutral technology / energy source for which the relevant technologies were allegedly both available and scalable.

OriginOil is seen as a leader in the algae biofuel industry, and had success last year in an algae pilot project with MBD Energy of Australia.

Even if the cut area is replaced with food crops (as has happened in the Amazon as part of the biofuel misadventure), it takes years before the rate of CO2 absorption rises to the previous level, and with some crops, it may never happen.

(01/09/2013) Not long ago biofuels were seen as one of the major tools to combat climate change, but a large number of studies in recent years have shown that many first generation biofuels may have little climate benefit — and some are actually harmful — and are also linked to rising food prices.

Naturally, (according to the FT, the Green party in Finland and Greenpeace in France still campaign against nuclear energy, while in Sweden the FT reports («The inconvenient truth about an oil - free society») the Greens have got the government to plan to log 1.15 mn hectares a year of its 20 mn hectares of forest for use as biofuel to reduce current dependence on oilfired energy and transport.

The Government of Canada is supporting a three - year project that will result in the construction of a $ 19 - million, demonstration - scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels.

The study, Impact Assessment of Clean Fuel Standards on the Canadian Economy, states that biofuels could be responsible for as much as 21.3 megatonnes (MT) per year of greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2030 — approximately 70 percent of the 30 MT target set by the federal government.

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL ROME â $» In the past year, as the diversion of food crops like corn and palm to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and politicians have begun promoting newer, so - called second - generation biofuels as the next wave of green energy.

THE NEXT TEN YEARS (THE TIME FOR TRANSITION) As I see it, we have, at most, a three - year window for plug - in hybrids and flex - fuel cars (cars that can run on either biofuel or gasoline, or a blend of both) to start being offered for sale and sold in large numbers.

With car demand expected to grow 12.5 % this year, China, which already has the world's largest biofuels plant, is working with European agencies to see how plant matter and animal waste - based fuels might serve as alternatives to fossil fuels.

Nonetheless, in recent years, there has been considerable backlash against biofuels, which are increasingly viewed as a threat to the environment.

The report includes all biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, and wind generation projects of more than 1MW; all hydropower projects of between 1MW and 50MW; all wave and tidal energy projects; all biofuel projects with a capacity of one million liters or more per year; and all solar projects, with those less than 1MW estimated separately and referred to as small - scale projects, or small distributed capacity.

In meeting the challenge of achieving the 20 - year deadline, there is a long way to go as biofuel is yet to be produced on an industrial scale.

Washington is already producing such low - carbon biofuels, but has the potential to produce significantly more: used cooking oil, animal fat, canola, and cellulosic sources such as hybrid poplar trees could collectively generate hundreds of millions of gallons of clean fuels every year.

Yet its indispensability will erode in increments each year, as EVs eventually grow from novelty to significance and new biofuels start to emulate oil's trump cards of convenience and energy density.

(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.

Earlier this year, the Defense Department's pursuit of experimental low - carbon biofuels was attacked as a waste of money in a report by the RAND Corporation.

Note, last year EPA changed the definition of cellulosic biofuel to include renewable CNG and renewable LNG as cellulosic biofuel.

Andrew Leakey is part of a five - year, $ 12 million study of grasses useful for biofuels that can grow with as little land, fertilizer, and water as possible.

Advanced biofuels (such as cellulosic ethanol) have made important progress in recent years but are not yet competitive with petroleum products.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

Algal biofuels, such as Sapphire Energy's much talked about green crude, are still years away from making a significant contribution to the market.