• If demand for ethanol reduces the availability of U.S. corn for export, one might ask how this will alter the geographical composition of U.S. exports. (usda.gov)
  • The demand for ethanol produced from field corn was spurred by the discovery that methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) was contaminating groundwater. (wikipedia.org)
  • The demand for ethanol will grow in the country. (indiatvnews.com)
  • The Renewable Fuels Association reported 209 ethanol distilleries in operation located in 29 states in 2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • Corn is needed to feed the cows that make the manure that fuels the processing plant that produces the ethanol. (roadandtravel.com)
  • One of the basic errors that the gasoline lapdogs make is that they act as if gasoline and petroleum diesel were some type of healthful elixir, and that in attempting to insert ethanol fuels into the market that the perfumed life-giving essence of fossil fuels are being polluted by greedy, evil farmers. (theautochannel.com)
  • As ethanol becomes a larger share of the nation's motor fuel supply, the STIHL engineers should pay closer attention to the fuels that are actually in the marketplace or they are going to have to get creative on who to blame next. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • BTW, the cane ethanol that supplies FORTY PERCENT of Brazil's transportation fuels is grown ONE THOUSAND MILES SOUTH of the Rain Forest. (coyoteblog.com)
  • The electricity and fossil fuels needed to convert corn to ethanol can cost millions, depending on a plant's size. (auri.org)
  • Ethanol plants use a lot of energy, but by using their own coproducts, they can cut down on a lot of the outside fuels they need to buy. (auri.org)
  • Illinois Corn Growers Association President Jim Reed, a family farmer from Monticello, IL, released the following statement today after learning the U.S. Senate confirmed support for renewable fuels by defeating Senator Tom Coburn's (R-Okla) anti-ethanol amendment. (ilcorn.org)
  • That's why ICGA has for months been in support of an immediate move to a variable ethanol tax credit and incentives to promote infrastructure development to deliver homegrown, renewable fuels to retail locations around the country. (ilcorn.org)
  • Manufactures made adjustments for the use of E-10, but they reported there are no adjustments to prevent the damage which will occur from the use of E-15 blended fuels. (unitedmarine.net)
  • and that is why I have spent many a convesation asking why in the hell the stupid Federal Government is heavily subsidizing Ethanol but not other more efficient, powerful, and easier to implement fuels like biodiesal and or even electrical power (such as Seattle' Trolley Busses - hint Tri-Met! (portlandtransport.com)
  • cellulosic ethanol , green biodiesel and other new, low-carbon biofuels - which are different from starch- or sugar-based ethanol and not simple replacements for traditional liquid fuels. (chinadialogue.net)
  • The ten-fold expansion in ethanol production in the U.S. from 2002 to 2019 has been driven by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a federal program that since 2005 has required transportation fuel to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuels. (civileats.com)
  • The current study used the survey-based USDA National Resources Inventory (NRI), which had been endorsed previously by the Renewable Fuels Association, a trade association for the ethanol industry, to quantify cropland expansion area and the portion attributable to corn ethanol. (civileats.com)
  • Under the Renewable Fuels Standard passed in 2007, the Federal government requires certain volumes of ethanol to be blended into the U.S. transportation fuel supply. (greencarreports.com)
  • However, states have discretion as to how much (or how little) ethanol goes into fuels sold within their borders. (greencarreports.com)
  • Short of an outright ban, however, it's important to note that state legislation doesn't necessarily affect the availability of ethanol-blended fuels. (greencarreports.com)
  • So, with the help of F1's Chief Technical Officer Pat Symonds, let's discover the challenges of creating a 100% sustainable fuel, why F1 thinks there's still plenty more life in the internal combustion engine yet, and how exactly these fuels will be made. (formula1.com)
  • Formula 1 will introduce a new power unit into the sport in the middle of the 2020s - and it's a power unit that the championship wants to be fuelled by 100% sustainable 'drop-in fuels' (meaning there'd be no need to modify the engines to run on them). (formula1.com)
  • So what are sustainable fuels - and how are they made? (formula1.com)
  • These fuels will initially be created on a small scale in a pilot plant to develop the methods that will then be suitable for mass production. (formula1.com)
  • What are the challenges that F1 need to overcome in developing sustainable fuels? (formula1.com)
  • Road fuels in the UK are with 10% ethanol now, and they have been in certain parts of Europe for a while. (formula1.com)
  • Still, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association commends ethanol as a tool that they say reduces carbon dioxide emissions and combats air pollution. (kcur.org)
  • Recommendations are made regarding PPE appropriate for the current fuels. (cdc.gov)
  • Work is underway to add over 2 billion gallons to the annual capacity of the U.S. ethanol sector. (usda.gov)
  • As of February 2006, the annual capacity of the U.S. ethanol sector stood at 4.4 billion gallons, and plants under construction or expansion are likely to add another 2.1 billion gallons to this number (map). (usda.gov)
  • If this trend and the existing and anticipated policy incentives in support of ethanol continue, U.S. ethanol production could reach 7 billion gallons in 2010, 3.3 billion more than the amount produced in 2005. (usda.gov)
  • With a corn-to-ethanol conversion rate of 2.7 gallons per bushel (a rate that many state-of-the-art facilities are already surpassing), the U.S. ethanol sector will need 2.6 billion bushels per year by 2010-1.2 billion bushels more than it consumed in 2005. (usda.gov)
  • The U.S. ended the 2004/05 marketing year (MY-September 2004-August 2005) with stocks of 2.1 billion bushels-enough to produce 5.7 billion gallons of ethanol. (usda.gov)
  • The U.S. produced 15.8 billion U.S. liquid gallons of ethanol fuel in 2019, and 13.9 billion U.S. liquid gallons (52.6 billion liters) in 2011, an increase from 13.2 billion U.S. liquid gallons (49.2 billion liters) in 2010, and up from 1.63 billion gallons in 2000. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ethanol production in the United States has grown significantly since NCERC opened its doors from roughly 2.8 billion gallons annually to the nearly 16 billion gallons of production today," said NCERC Executive Director John Caupert. (ncga.com)
  • And big growth in ethanol production - the U.S. made 4.86 billion gallons in 2006, about 1 billion more than in 2005, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture - has pushed ethanol prices down. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Corn Plus produces 44-million gallons of ethanol per year. (auri.org)
  • The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), set in 2005, mandated the EPA dictate that an increasing number of gallons of ethanol be blended into the country's fuel supply each year. (unitedmarine.net)
  • 1.5 gallons of ethanol has the same energy content as 1.0 gallon of gasoline. (unitedmarine.net)
  • If I did the math correctly ethanol yield is about 400 gallons per acre. (greencarcongress.com)
  • The worldwide production of cellulosic ethanol will amount to at least 16.5 billion gallons in 2020, if the targets set in the United States, China, Europe, Japan and Brazil are achieved. (openpr.com)
  • The advancements that have been made in the biofuels industry, thanks to the work of NCERC, has directly benefited corn farmers through the growth of ethanol and exploration for new bio-based products from U.S. corn," said Illinois corn farmer and NCGA ethanol action team member Jim Reed. (ncga.com)
  • This recent decline in ethanol prices has really caused overall profitability to struggle at many of these plants," said Rick Kment, biofuels analyst at DTN. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Promoters of biofuels often hold up Brazil as an example of a model ethanol mandate. (coyoteblog.com)
  • Despite a series of successful biofuel IPOs recently, and a number of biofuel IPOs in the pipeline, the production of next-gen biofuels, in any kind of volumes that would make a dent in the transportation sector, seems to be creeping, very slowly forward. (gigaom.com)
  • Using this to produce advanced biofuels would not only replace a significant proportion of crude oil consumption, but also slash carbon dioxide emissions and energy use in the process of fuel manufacturing. (chinadialogue.net)
  • In its bi-monthly market commentary at Ethanol Statistics, European fuel ethanol association eBIO tackles the most controversial issues in the decision-making process on EU biofuels legislation. (openpr.com)
  • Separately, a British report on biofuels says all types of waste products, including plastic bags, can be used to make biodiesel fuel. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Critics of biofuels made from food crops say they drive up prices. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Critics say that the current biofuels - both diesel made from palm oil and ethanol made from corn - encourage farmers to switch land to fuel production, driving up the price of food in the process. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Jeremy Tomkinson of the UK's National Non-Food Crops Centre said this next generation of biofuels could meet many needs beyond powering cars. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Argus' new Brazil ethanol price assessments are part of the newly launched Argus Brazil Ethanol report, available in Portuguese, and complements the Argus Americas Biofuels report's existing suite of spot price assessments and market commentary for the biofuels industry in the Americas. (argusmedia.com)
  • In the future, corn may cease to be the main feedstock for U.S. ethanol production if cellulosic biomass is successfully developed as an alternative. (usda.gov)
  • However, if the United States successfully develops cellulosic biomass (wood fibers and crop residue) as an economical alternative feedstock for ethanol production, corn would become one of many crops and plant-based materials used to produce ethanol (see "That 70s Energy Scene" ). (usda.gov)
  • As long as corn is the primary feedstock for ethanol in the U.S., however, sustained increases in ethanol production will eventually require adjustments in the corn market. (usda.gov)
  • Abengoa Bioenergy plans to invest $250 million to develop 50,000 hectares of cassava plantation in the Philippines for the production of feedstock for ethanol production. (greencarcongress.com)
  • While ethanol has gotten quite decent subsidies and will continue to do so, it's a question of how much to put into it, especially if it's causing inflation outside of the fuel business. (greentechmedia.com)
  • I know that correlation is not equal to causation, but the fact is that this land clearing, which has always one on, really accelerated after the Brazilian ethanol mandates and subsidies. (coyoteblog.com)
  • So there is little point in pointing out that ethanol subsidies won't help it. (coyoteblog.com)
  • Iowa farmers plant corn to harvest the subsidies for ethanol. (coyoteblog.com)
  • Cruz's campaign, however, says that is inaccurate because he supports getting rid of all energy subsidies, not just those for ethanol. (texastribune.org)
  • Cruz has repeatedly stated that he would end all energy-specific subsidies, both ethanol and oil, among others. (texastribune.org)
  • Politicians like Ted Cruz support subsidies for Big Oil but want to end support for ethanol," the ad says. (texastribune.org)
  • The study's findings aren't likely to change government policy, since ethanol mandates are a political boondoggle that only dupes expect to have any effect on the climate. (coyoteblog.com)
  • Before asking the stations to yank the ad, Cruz's campaign was flagging a speech he gave in June at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. "Big government energy mandates don't stop with ethanol," Cruz said, specifically citing enhanced oil recovery credits. (texastribune.org)
  • But the GOP has shifted rightward during the age of Barack Obama, and as the 2016 race gets underway a thousand spectators gathered at the state fairgrounds to watch the party's top contenders try to thread the needle on farm policy, especially when it comes to ethanol mandates. (politico.com)
  • Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who's also opposed to these kinds of government mandates, could have created his own moment. (politico.com)
  • However, four more states--Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, and Pennsylvania--have ethanol mandates requiring local refineries to be able to produce certain minimum amounts of the fuel. (greencarreports.com)
  • Over the last decade-plus, a total of 14 states have reportedly tried to pass ethanol mandates, but apparently a 50-percent success rate is the best advocates can muster. (greencarreports.com)
  • Two states passed ethanol mandates that were later repealed: Florida repealed its law in 2013, while Hawaii did away with its own rule earlier this year. (greencarreports.com)
  • There have also been unsuccessful attempts to repeal ethanol mandates in four of the states that currently have them--Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. (greencarreports.com)
  • After a town hall in Bettendorf, Cruz denounced the Obama administration's move earlier in the day to increase the amount of ethanol in the American gasoline supply, reiterating his belief the government should not be "picking winners and losers. (texastribune.org)
  • Top-tier candidates, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, each said they would love to eventually phase out the Renewable Fuel Standard - which requires refiners to blend a certain amount of ethanol into their gasoline - but that it ought to stay in place for at least a few more years. (politico.com)
  • It is usually produced by a reaction of ethylene oxide with butyl alcohol, but it may also be made by the reaction of ethylene glycol with dibutyl sulfate. (cdc.gov)
  • They need alcohol to survive, and the next four years ain't gonna be easy. (dailycaller.com)
  • A 70% ethanol solution, also known as isopropyl alcohol, can remove most bacteria. (edcmag.com)
  • You don't need higher alcohol concentration. (edcmag.com)
  • If you only have 100% isopropyl alcohol, make a mixture of seven parts alcohol and three parts distilled water. (edcmag.com)
  • Measuring the concentration of alcohol (ethanol) in exhaled breath (BrAC) provides a rapid and non-invasive way to determine the co-existing concentration in arterial blood (A-BAC). (lu.se)
  • Alcohol is also called ethanol. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Why do I need a blood alcohol test? (medlineplus.gov)
  • You may need a blood alcohol test if you are suspected of drunk driving and/or have symptoms of intoxication. (medlineplus.gov)
  • You or your child may also need this test if there are symptoms of alcohol poisoning. (medlineplus.gov)
  • You don't need any special preparations for a blood alcohol test. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Alcohol Use Alcohol (ethanol) is a depressant (it slows down brain and nervous system functioning). (msdmanuals.com)
  • In preparing a working document for developing a draft global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol the Secretariat built on the outcomes of the regional consultations with Member States and took into consideration the outcomes of the previous consultative process with all stakeholders on ways in which they could contribute to reducing the harmful use of alcohol. (who.int)
  • Home-made beverages provide a very important channel for alcohol availability and household income. (who.int)
  • The United States became the world's largest producer of ethanol fuel in 2005. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the U.S, ethanol fuel is mainly used as an oxygenate in gasoline in the form of low-level blends up to 10 percent, and, increasingly, as E85 fuel for flex-fuel vehicles. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the fuel systems of cars, trucks, and motorcycles sold before the ethanol mandate may suffer substantial damage from the use of 10% ethanol blends. (wikipedia.org)
  • Flexible-fuel cars, trucks, and minivans use gasoline/ethanol blends ranging from pure gasoline up to 85% ethanol (E85). (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1826 Samuel Morey experimented with an internal combustion chemical mixture that used ethanol (combined with turpentine and ambient air then vaporized) as fuel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ethanol fuel received little attention until 1860 when Nicholas Otto began experimenting with internal combustion engines. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] The discovery of a ready supply of oil and unfavorable taxation on burning fluid made kerosene a more popular fuel. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ford continued to advocate for ethanol fuel even during the prohibition, but lower prices caused gasoline to prevail. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study is the first comprehensive look at climate pollution from the cropland expansion following the enactment of the ethanol mandate-formally known as the Renewable Fuel Standard. (nwf.org)
  • The overwhelming majority of that fuel is corn ethanol, and today 40 percent of the corn produced in the United States goes into our gas tanks. (nwf.org)
  • NCERC has assisted in advancements in fuel ethanol production, with more than 75 products and technologies that have passed through our doors now in the commercial marketplace. (ncga.com)
  • In 1908, Ford built the first flexible fuel vehicle capable of running on either gasoline or ethanol. (cei.org)
  • The reality is that gasoline and petroleum diesel fuel, along with the various additives manufactured by the oil industry, are vile deadly substances. (theautochannel.com)
  • Okay, so we have the three 'distinguished' professors, who might have been right at home working alongside Josef Mengele, arguing that ethanol production produces more harmful gases than the production of gasoline and diesel fuel. (theautochannel.com)
  • This has helped accelerate ethanol along a positive environmental trajectory - cleaner and more sustainable fuel year after year. (ethanol.org)
  • In other words, conventional fuel and ethanol are moving in opposite directions. (ethanol.org)
  • STIHL Incorporated issued the recall after 81 consumer complaints of the fuel cap distorting and thus making the installation or removal of the fuel cap "difficult. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • The recall notice goes on to blame "ethanol, aromatics and other fuel additives" for the fuel cap failure leading to the recall of the equipment, again "round up all the usual suspects. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • According to the STIHL Incorporated Safety Recall Notice available on their website: "Specifically, the levels of ethanol, aromatics or other additives in some gasoline sold in the United States may distort parts of the fuel cap, which could make caps more difficult to install and/or remove. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • There's been no change to gasoline regulations for small engines that would affect the ethanol, aromatic or other fuel additive content in gasoline in years. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • Distortion of the fuel caps when exposed to normal levels of ethanol, aromatics and fuel additives indicates a poor selection in the fuel cap construction. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • Blaming ethanol or aromatics or other fuel additives for this situation is wrong. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • Forget for a moment that in fact ethanol still makes up only a small percentage of the transportation fuel market in Brazil. (coyoteblog.com)
  • How much fuel do I need? (ecosmartfire.com)
  • Domestic ethanol production provides jobs in rural areas, and provides savings at the pump every time cash-strapped Americans fuel up. (ilcorn.org)
  • Iowa's powerful ethanol lobby is going on the offensive against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz over his opposition to a fuel standard important to the corn-growing state, but the presidential hopeful is shooting back. (texastribune.org)
  • And Cruz's campaign is aggressively pushing back, asking radio stations in the early voting state to take down an attack ad that labels him a "hypocrite" for his unapologetic opposition to an ethanol-friendly fuel standard. (texastribune.org)
  • A flex-fuel vehicle will experience about 76% of the fuel mileage MPG when using E85 (85% ethanol) products as compared to 100% gasoline. (unitedmarine.net)
  • Also, during storage ethanol attracts water (one end of the molecule is hydrophobic) thus as the fuel tank has air flowing in and out moisture in the air will be pulled into the fuel (bigger problem with boats sitting on the water). (unitedmarine.net)
  • What the supporters of ethanol continue to side step is the fact that it takes approximately one gallon of fuel (gasoline or diesel) to produce a gallon of corn derived ethanol and bring it to market. (portlandtransport.com)
  • In addition ethanol reduces fuel economy for most vehicles including flex fuel vehicles. (portlandtransport.com)
  • And as far as the one gallon of fuel to make one gallon of enthanol from Corn - that is a flawed number that came from a study done by Pimentel and Pitzak from Cornell university, and it has been debunked over and over as they used wrong numbers, left out details and information, and counted on outdated data. (portlandtransport.com)
  • He said that ethanol being an indigenous, eco-friendly and renewable fuel holds promising prospects for India. (indiatvnews.com)
  • Ethanol-blended fuel can be found at many gas stations, but only a handful of states require it , according to a recent survey of laws conducted by Hemmings Motor News . (greencarreports.com)
  • Louisiana and Washington require ethanol to make up 2 percent of the total volume of fuel sold, while the other states specify E10--a blend of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline. (greencarreports.com)
  • New Hampshire and Texas have toyed with bans as well, while North Carolina legislators have discussed eliminating the fuel tax on gasoline containing no ethanol. (greencarreports.com)
  • Some states that don't mandate the sale of ethanol may even support it with incentives, or by purchasing "flex-fuel" vehicles for official use. (greencarreports.com)
  • The fuel, made from fructose, contains far more energy than ethanol, the scientists write in the journal Nature. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Now scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say that a simple sugar called fructose can be converted into a fuel that has many advantages over ethanol. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The scientists say that fructose can be obtained directly from fruits and plants or made from glucose - but more work needs to be done to assess the environmental impact of this new fuel. (bbc.co.uk)
  • In Britain, researchers say that the technology now exists to create diesel fuel not just from palm oil but from a range of materials including wood, weeds and even plastic bags. (bbc.co.uk)
  • 2022 will already see the new generation of Formula 1 cars running on 'E10' fuel - a mixture of 90% fossil fuel and 10% renewable ethanol, which is already available to many motorists at petrol pumps throughout the world. (formula1.com)
  • The key one, apart from simply creating enough fuel to power the F1 grid, is creating a fuel with a punch worthy of the pinnacle of motorsport. (formula1.com)
  • It's very ambitious, in the scope of what we're trying to do, to make a very high-performance sustainable fuel," says Symonds. (formula1.com)
  • But ethanol is not the best fuel for high performance. (formula1.com)
  • So what we're doing is, we're synthesising a high-performance, fully sustainable fuel, and that is something that is both difficult to do and hard to do in the quantities we need. (formula1.com)
  • The ethanol industry has long been at odds with some climate groups and activists over how good their fuel is for the environment. (kcur.org)
  • This is the precursor to, I think, greater acceptance of the products that we make, whether it's in our fuel like the ethanol that we make, or in our proteins, like high-value proteins," Becker said. (kcur.org)
  • The most recent USDA Baseline Projections suggest that much of the additional corn needed for ethanol production will be diverted from exports. (usda.gov)
  • Large corn stocks will enable U.S. ethanol production to increase initially without requiring much additional adjustment in the corn market. (usda.gov)
  • The U.S. government subsidizes ethanol production. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] Farmers saw a new market and increased production. (wikipedia.org)
  • Experience Three (3) years of production/processing experience in an ethanol plant, including implementing or complying with occupational health and safety programs. (ethanolproducer.com)
  • Plans and manages production budget to meet facility needs and production goals. (ethanolproducer.com)
  • Makes improvements to the production process as necessary to maximize efficiency, increase product quality and/or lower costs. (ethanolproducer.com)
  • VeraSun suspends construction of an Indiana refinery, the latest in a series of ethanol-production delays. (greentechmedia.com)
  • VeraSun is the latest ethanol company to postpone plans to grow its production capacity. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Rufus, I believe if ethanol production was found to kill people you would still continue to cheerlead it. (coyoteblog.com)
  • I won't even get into the agricultural and environment issues around mono-culture corn production (yes, I know ethanol can come from other crops, but this was a corn-belt-focused story). (portlandtransport.com)
  • Next-gen biofuel company KiOR misses its production targets from its new biocrude making plant by 75 percent. (gigaom.com)
  • According to DOE figures, traditional ethanol production provides only 26% more energy than is required in its production, as opposed to 80% more for cellulosic ethanol. (chinadialogue.net)
  • With the right standards in place, the entire production process for cellulosic ethanol could be made carbon neutral, since the energy crops consume carbon dioxide while they are growing. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Non-cellulosic ethanol can also provide heat during production, making the process self-sufficient in terms of energy. (chinadialogue.net)
  • At the end of 2006, the China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation ( COFCO ) built a pilot cellulosic ethanol plant in Heilongjiang province, northeast China, with annual production capacity of 500 tonnes. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Companies and professionals that are active in the Ethanol Industry, whether it is in production, R&D, financial services, chemicals, storage and transportation or otherwise, can now get a 15% introductory discount if they subscribe to the Ethanol Statistics - Monthly Market Review before June 1st. (openpr.com)
  • Thirty ethanol plants in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are part of a project led by Iowa company Summit Carbon Solutions to capture the carbon dioxide released in ethanol production and store it underground. (kcur.org)
  • When you look at the full life cycle of production and use of ethanol compared to gasoline, it has not been shown that corn ethanol actually reduces greenhouse gas emissions," said Jason Hill, a biosystems engineer at the University of Minnesota. (kcur.org)
  • More than 300,000 workers are employed worldwide in the semiconductor industry, but over 80% of indium is now used as ITO in flat panel displays, with a large number of workers employed either in display manufacture or in the production and reclamation of indium materials used to manufacture of the displays. (who.int)
  • To provide much needed price transparency to the Brazilian ethanol industry, global commodity price reporting agency Argus has launched a series of price assessments for hydrous and anhydrous ethanol in the country's centre-south area, its largest producing region. (argusmedia.com)
  • The primary issues related to the large amount of arable land required for crops and ethanol production's impact on grain supply, indirect land use change (ILUC) effects, as well as issues regarding its energy balance and carbon intensity considering its full life cycle. (wikipedia.org)
  • This year, the Biden administration will reset the biofuel volume targets of the RFS , and it's yet to be seen how new targets could ultimately impact the price of corn, demand for soybeans to make biodiesel, the farms that produce these crops, and-ultimately-the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. (civileats.com)
  • The year 2005 was marked by a flurry of construction activity in the Nation's ethanol industry, as ground was broken on dozens of new plants throughout the U.S. Corn Belt and plans were drawn for even more facilities. (usda.gov)
  • Today, more than a hundred years later, the perennial infant known as the corn-ethanol industry still can't 'compete' without government coddling. (cei.org)
  • I can't say for sure, since I haven't done a count and compared it to a calendar, but it seems to me that the American oil industry has been ramping up its attacks on ethanol and trying to gain ground by adding in more high-powered lapdogs to press their fallacious arguments. (theautochannel.com)
  • Gary's executive leadership experience, deep background in our ethanol business and risk-management expertise will be important to our success as we continue managing through a challenging industry environment," said Mark Bemis, senior vice president and president, ADM Corn business unit. (adm.com)
  • The defeat of Senator Coburn's efforts to pull the rug out from under the domestic ethanol industry indicates that the Senate understands the vital role ethanol plays in the overall health of the U.S. economy. (ilcorn.org)
  • Thune's legislation is the best possible option to reduce federal expenditures to the ethanol industry, secure ethanol producers a safety net, and preserve the price advantage that saves Americans cash with every gallon of ethanol blended gasoline they purchase. (ilcorn.org)
  • As U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's stock rises in Iowa, he is increasingly finding himself in the crosshairs of one of the corn-growing state's most powerful lobbies: the ethanol industry. (texastribune.org)
  • The ethanol industry is a boon for farmers. (indiatvnews.com)
  • He then floated the idea of getting rid of the standard in 2022 "or somewhere in the future," if the ethanol industry can sustain itself. (politico.com)
  • It offers the industry a new online source of reliable and comprehensive information on the ethanol industry and industries related to it. (openpr.com)
  • Features include global ethanol news, global commodity prices, industry reports and several other features. (openpr.com)
  • Becker called the project a "game changer" for the U.S. ethanol industry. (kcur.org)
  • Robert Brown, the director of Iowa State University's Bioeconomy Institute , said carbon capture could be key to changing perceptions about the ethanol industry. (kcur.org)
  • The growing complexity of this industry has created a strong demand for accurate price assessments to be used as a reliable reference to price the biofuel. (argusmedia.com)
  • The Brazilian ethanol industry has struggled to find a price reference that reaches international standards of excellence in commodity index pricing. (argusmedia.com)
  • F.O. Licht's Sugar and Ethanol Brazil is a 3 day event packed with industry leaders and exclusive networking opportunities, ensuring that you make the contacts and get the insights you need to stay ahead in this dynamic global market. (eco-business.com)
  • The Iranian government is interested in using Brazilian ethanol in its vehicles. (brazzil.com)
  • Ethanol futures trade on the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) is down 56% in 2007 compared to the same period in 2006, a recent study of Ethanol Statistics shows. (openpr.com)
  • The Brazilian ethanol market has evolved over the past decades into one of the world's most active in terms of trade and market participants. (argusmedia.com)
  • Argus publishes all the information that it uses for assessing Brazilian ethanol prices, including the highest and the lowest deals concluded, volume-weighted averages, traded volumes, number of deals, freight differentials and market commentary. (argusmedia.com)
  • That residue helps the soil retain moisture and simultaneously reduces the need for irrigation while significantly boosting yields. (ethanol.org)
  • The reason why ethanol is blended with petrol is that it reduces vehicular emissions. (indiatvnews.com)
  • By 2011 most cars on U.S. roads could run on blends of up to 10% ethanol(E10), and manufacturers had begun producing vehicles designed for much higher percentages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another important point is that as more higher blends of ethanol are sold, it actually allows more ethanol free to be sold. (unitedmarine.net)
  • Predictions of vapor concentrations were highly correlated to measurements, but activity coefficients are needed for ethanol blends. (cdc.gov)
  • This cropland expansion driven in part by the ethanol mandate has far-reaching impacts on the climate through its effects on the land and the carbon that it stores," said Seth Spawn, lead author of the work in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin . (nwf.org)
  • According to a study by Field to Market, the amount of land needed to produce one bushel of corn has dropped more than 37 percent since 1987. (ethanol.org)
  • The amount of energy needed to produce that bushel has also dropped 37 percent since then. (ethanol.org)
  • FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Amid record-setting wild fires out West , recent climate assessment sounding the alarm about threats from rising global temperatures, and data showing 2017 will be one of the hottest years on record , new research from the University of Wisconsin finds that the federal corn ethanol mandate is contributing to climate change. (nwf.org)
  • the EPA is planning another increase, up to 15% blend of ethanol for 2017. (unitedmarine.net)
  • EPA has proposed that the volume of ethanol for 2017 would be above the blend wall of 10% ethanol. (unitedmarine.net)
  • its mission to create opportunities for America's corn farmers. (ncga.com)
  • Now, more than ever, new uses and new market opportunities are needed for America's corn farmers. (ncga.com)
  • everything about ethanol is good, good, good, " crows Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, echoing the conventional wisdom that corn-based ethanol will help us kick the oil habit, line the pockets of farmers, and usher in a new era of guilt-free motoring. (motherjones.com)
  • Besides, ethanol can add to the income of farmers and also help the government saving more than Rs 300 billion of foreign exchange per annum. (indiatvnews.com)
  • how many cow pies does it take to generate a gallon of ethanol? (roadandtravel.com)
  • The company on Monday evening announced it is suspending construction of a 100-million-gallon ethanol refinery in Indiana. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Among other examples, Cupertino, Calif.-based American Ethanol delayed completion of a 110-million-gallon plant and Watertown, S.D.-based Glacial Lakes Energy delayed construction of a 60-million-gallon plant, according to research firm DTN. (greentechmedia.com)
  • Companies that were making 20 cents per gallon two years ago now aren't breaking even, in some cases, he said. (greentechmedia.com)
  • E85 is 85% ethanol and yes your gas mileage will be much less due to the fact that ethanol has less BTUs per gallon than gasoline. (unitedmarine.net)
  • Along with ICGA, NCGA has worked closely with NCERC to help underscore the advantages of renewable corn ethanol. (ncga.com)
  • Archer Daniels Midland Corp. is a major contributor to politicians and also produces about 75% of the nation ethanol as I recall. (portlandtransport.com)
  • After the body produces an immune response, it gets rid of all of the vaccine ingredients just as it would discard any information that cells no longer need. (cdc.gov)
  • According to the research, which is being presented today at the America's Grasslands Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, in the years following enactment of the current ethanol mandate in 2007, more than 7 million acres of habitat were plowed under to plant corn and soy, leading to the release of climate pollution equivalent to the annual emissions of 20 million new cars on the road. (nwf.org)
  • These findings should serve as a wake-up call that it's time to act with purpose and urgency to fix the ethanol mandate and confront climate change to protect our health, environment, economy, and wildlife," said Collin O'Mara , president and chief executive officer of the National Wildlife Federation . (nwf.org)
  • The researchers said that past studies showing the benefits of ethanol in combating climate change have not taken into account almost certain changes in land use worldwide if ethanol from corn "" and in the future from other feedstocks such as switchgrass "" become a prized commodity. (coyoteblog.com)
  • The process - thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years - is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of the oceans and to make climate change worse. (theoildrum.com)
  • Guwahati, Feb 22: Assam-based Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) has collaborated with a Finnish company to manufacture ethanol out of bamboo, a top company official said on Tuesday. (assamtribune.com)
  • The company, which originally announced it would build the refinery in April, had already completed preparation work on the site when it called off the project. (greentechmedia.com)
  • From the STIHL website: "All STIHL gasoline powered engines can be used with up to a 10% (E10) blend of ethanol in the gasoline/engine oil mix. (ethanolrfa.org)
  • That's why some Minnesota ethanol plants are using innovative technologies such as burning wood biomass or a syrup coproduct to lower energy costs. (auri.org)
  • Central Minnesota Ethanol Cooperative in Little Falls, Minn. broke ground this fall on an $8 million on-site biomass plant. (auri.org)
  • Ethanol is an organic compound that is produced from biomass. (indiatvnews.com)
  • Two important management decisions that a farmer needs to make are which variety to plant and when to harvest the biomass. (usda.gov)
  • These products and technologies are being utilized in every commercial corn ethanol plant operating today, with a significant impact: more than 5,000 new jobs created and nearly $6 billion of annual revenue. (ncga.com)
  • Speaking at a CII event, managing director of NRL Bhaskar Jyoti Phukan said the company has invested heavily in a bio-ethanol plant. (assamtribune.com)
  • If an ethanol processing plant can be powered by pasture pies, then maybe electric power plants can, too! (roadandtravel.com)
  • Must work hand in glove with QA and EHS Managers to make good quality product and stay in compliance, while leading a culture of safety throughout the plant. (ethanolproducer.com)
  • In August, Little Sioux Corn Processors' subsidiary Akron Riverview Corn Processors halted work on a proposed ethanol plant in Iowa, also citing unfavorable market conditions. (greentechmedia.com)
  • And companies need to consider a 20-year outlook when deciding whether a new plant will pay off, he said. (greentechmedia.com)
  • It is the first ethanol plant in the country to use fluid-bed technology to burn syrup, an ethanol coproduct, for energy. (auri.org)
  • The financially-strapped company reportedly plans to shut down its plant in Georgia after making just one batch of ethanol. (gigaom.com)
  • It needs to more raise more money and tackle technical problems at its first commercial plant. (gigaom.com)
  • But, if one can trigger shut-downs, or worse -- the failure of plant safety equipment -- via cyber attacks, who needs an airplane? (earthtrack.net)
  • The structure of plant systems make this difficult to do, but clearly the hacking attacks are looking for leverage. (earthtrack.net)
  • In 1908, the revolutionary Ford Model T was capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or a combination. (wikipedia.org)
  • Back in 2000, John McCain skipped the Iowa caucuses altogether on the grounds that he could not win while opposing the federal ethanol subsidy. (politico.com)
  • dried distiller's grains left over from making ethanol are a secondary source. (auri.org)
  • In the United States and Canada, folate is added to enrich foods made from grains. (msdmanuals.com)
  • And the prevalence of informational labels about the possible presence of up to 10 percent ethanol in gasoline sold at pumps throughout the nation suggests that the biofuel is blended into quite a lot of the gasoline sold in the U.S. (greencarreports.com)
  • At the very time that ethanol is improving its environmental profile thanks to sustainable farming practices, petroleum extraction has become dirtier (Alberta Tar Sands), more difficult (deep water drilling in the gulf) and the subject of intense concern for its environmental dangers (the Keystone XL pipeline's threat to the Oglala aquifer and the 2010 BP Oil Spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico). (ethanol.org)
  • According to the USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections (released in February 2006), the share of ethanol in total corn use will rise from 12 percent in 2004/05 to 23 percent in 2014/15. (usda.gov)
  • The ethanol market share in the U.S. gasoline supply grew by volume from just over 1 percent in 2000 to more than 3 percent in 2006 to 10 percent in 2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • And according to an article I studied for several seconds, today's cars can run on a gasoline mix that can be as much as 85 percent ethanol. (roadandtravel.com)
  • Currently 98 percent of gasoline in the U.S. contains some ethanol, most commonly 10 percent, or E10. (civileats.com)
  • In fact, roughly 40 percent of all corn is now used to make ethanol. (civileats.com)
  • The tremendous expansion of the ethanol sector raises a key question: Where will ethanol producers get the corn needed to increase their output? (usda.gov)
  • One possibility is that ethanol producers will secure the additional corn they need by competing with other buyers in the marketplace and bidding up the price of corn. (usda.gov)
  • Slower growth of U.S. corn exports would create new opportunities for corn producers in other parts of the world, including Argentina, Brazil, and China. (usda.gov)
  • That's made it very difficult for ethanol producers to make money. (technologyreview.com)
  • Consequently, there is an urgent need to search for novel therapeutic agents to treat HCC. (bvsalud.org)
  • citation needed] The steep growth in twenty-first century ethanol consumption was driven by federal legislation aimed to reduce oil consumption and enhance energy security. (wikipedia.org)
  • He said there is a need to monetise gas reserves lying underneath and also storing of carbon dioxide in dead wells and reservoirs. (assamtribune.com)
  • Ethanol is made from corn, which naturally pulls carbon dioxide from the air. (kcur.org)
  • The ethanol plants would capture carbon dioxide during fermentation. (kcur.org)
  • Two Dallas energy firms have announced plans to build ethanol plants in the Texas Panhandle. (roadandtravel.com)
  • No, contrary to belief, ethanol plants are not in any way related to tobacco. (roadandtravel.com)
  • These new ethanol processing plants will be fueled by cow patties! (roadandtravel.com)
  • You are correct that plants make a wide variety of oxygenated and non-oxygenated hydrocarbons, though they originate from very different sources: Methanol emissions are associated with bud break in woody tissues, C6 alcohols are associated with green tissue damage, C5 isoprenoid emissions are light-dependent while C10 and larger isoprenoids are usually light independent. (realclimate.org)
  • In 2007, the DOE funded six cellulosic ethanol plants at a cost of US$385 million. (chinadialogue.net)
  • These prices are calculated as the revenue that generators receive in wholesale power markets divided by their technologies' electricity generation and do not reflect the cost of building the power plants or the cost of generating electricity. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • The ethanol tax credit is bad economic policy, bad energy policy and bad environmental policy. (cei.org)
  • Owatonna, MN - It takes energy to make energy. (auri.org)
  • CMEC has received a $2 million USDA grant and another $2 million from Xcel Energy to help construct the gasifier. (auri.org)
  • It is called dimethylfuran - it can store 40% more energy than ethanol, and does not evaporate as easily. (bbc.co.uk)
  • It was, perhaps, the first major acknowledgement by a system operator that solar energy is no longer a niche technology and that utilities need to plan for increasing amounts of solar energy. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • It was determined that carbohydrate contents, available for ethanol fermentation, increased and conversion efficiencies decreased as the crop matured. (usda.gov)
  • Subsequently, pretreated SG samples were converted to ethanol by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation using engineered xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain YRH400. (usda.gov)
  • The spot "makes a flatly false factual claim for which your station is ultimately responsible," Cruz general counsel Eric S. Brown wrote to station managers. (texastribune.org)
  • The end result was that ethanol and sugar yields per kg of switchgrass were uniform. (usda.gov)
  • Ethanol yields were 184.4 - 202.0 l/Mg l/Mgf SG (dry basis). (usda.gov)
  • Ethanol yields were 145.5 - 159.4 l/ton of SG (dry basis) and followed a similar trend as observed for enzymatic sugar yields. (usda.gov)
  • And one of the ways that they arrive at this spurious position is by calculating in the harmful emissions given off by the various machines used in the crop growing and ethanol delivery process. (theautochannel.com)
  • The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. (coyoteblog.com)
  • Hill said ethanol's emissions are "comparable to gasoline" because growing corn and distributing ethanol also release greenhouse gases. (kcur.org)
  • Texas-based Navigator CO2 Ventures has also launched a pipeline project to capture and store ethanol emissions in Illinois. (kcur.org)
  • But when ethanol is produced and burned, it releases CO2 and small amounts of two other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. (kcur.org)
  • We must use the molar mass of ethanol to convert from mass to moles and convert the volume from millilitres to litres. (quizlet.com)
  • citation needed] MTBE's fall from grace opened a new market for ethanol, its primary substitute. (wikipedia.org)
  • We've created a market for an otherwise wasted product," Nixon says. (auri.org)
  • Ethanol Statistics is a market research and business information publisher established in the Netherlands. (openpr.com)
  • That is the conclusion of the cellulosic ethanol focused analysis section in the march edition of the Ethanol Statistics - Monthly Market review. (openpr.com)
  • But I love being here in a place where a guy who had a dream at age 17 -- that's how old Chuck was when he started to act on his entrepreneurial instincts -- said, if I work hard and if I'm smart and if I figure out what the market wants, I can build something that I call my own. (archives.gov)
  • The enzyme that creates a chemical reaction needs to be below freezing or it will be inactivated. (who.int)
  • Broad knowledge of manufacturing processes, procedures and machinery. (ethanolproducer.com)
  • Switchgrass was pretreated with dilute ammonia and converted to either sugars or ethanol using biochemical processes. (usda.gov)
  • Finally, further experimental research studies are needed to evaluate the complex mechanisms by which lead may cause cancer with particular emphasis on the roles of oxidative stress / apoptosis and the roles of cellular defense mechanisms, signaling pathways and intracellular lead binding patterns in mediating these processes. (who.int)