• Ethanol is commonly made from biomass such as corn or sugarcane. (wikipedia.org)
  • That middleman is the "biomass," such as the untold tons of corn or algae that must be grown, harvested and destroyed to extract a fuel that still must be treated and refined to be used. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Recovering the fuel is where Joule could find significant problems, said Pienkos, the NREL scientist, who is also principal investigator on a Department of Energy-funded project with Algenol , a Joule competitor that makes ethanol and is one of the handful of companies that also bypass biomass. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a biodiesel fuel using a fermentation process that was once used to make explosives in World War I. The process uses a bacterium called Clostridium acetobutylicum (also known as the "Weizmann Organism") to ferment sugar from various sources - including corn, sugar cane, molasses, woody biomass, or plant biomass - and produces acetone, butanol, and ethanol. (techdirt.com)
  • They genetically engineered the marine alga Dunaliella tertiolecta to produce five different enzymes that could be used to convert biomass to fuel. (techdirt.com)
  • Government, private and industry sectors are actively working to address the challenges associated with biofuels development through research on new technologies and pathways to convert various biomass feedstocks into petroleum substitutes. (confex.com)
  • The venture capital industry began investing in biomass, in earnest, five years ago when hype around ethanol and other biobased fuels led to an unsustainable capacity expansion and strained feedstock supplies. (biocycle.net)
  • The pursuit of biofuels has driven significant technological advancements in areas such as crop breeding, fermentation, and biomass conversion. (popherald.com)
  • And, using an oil-barrel graphic near the end of the film, he echoes the sentiments we've heard from Al Gore and others that biofuels, algae, wind, solar, hybrids, conservation, biomass are each insufficient in and of themselves. (futurist.com)
  • Solazyme , a startup based in South San Francisco, CA, has developed a new way to convert biomass into fuel using algae, and the method could lead to less expensive biofuels. (technologyreview.com)
  • The U.K. Department of Energy & Climate Change has announced that starting in 2015, the biomass industry must show its fuel is sustainable to receive financial support. (biomassmagazine.com)
  • The European Union recently published its annual biofuels report for 2013 with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Information Network, reporting that solid biomass will play an important role in meeting renewable targets. (biomassmagazine.com)
  • With algae as a possible biomass source to produce biodiesel, it is possible that this fuel will be the primary fuel of the future for vehicles. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Both ethanol and biodiesel are produced using biomass energy . (bionomicfuel.com)
  • This biofuel is made from corn and other biomass materials in the United States and is mixed with gasoline in two different combinations. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Biodiesel is another biofuel that is created from biomass materials, only this fuel is created from fats in plants and animals. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • In the United States, soybeans are the main source of biomass for this biofuel, but in other countries plants like rapeseed are used instead. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • There is also a large potential for biodiesel that is derived from biomass algae . (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Results from the five-year study highlights the prairie grass' potential as a biomass fuel source that yields significantly more energy than is consumed in production and conversion into cellulosic ethanol, said Ken Vogel, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service geneticist in UNL's agronomy and horticulture department. (typepad.com)
  • EROEI is a good benchmark for ghg and also the usefulness of biomass as a transportation fuels. (typepad.com)
  • The theory is that algae biomass can circumvent and relieve the food-for-fuel controversy because it appears to be a cost-effective source of high-grade oil for bio-fuel and edible oils and proteins for food and animal feed. (copperwiki.org)
  • Biofuels, i.e., ethanol and biomass-based diesel fuel are cleaner burning fuels and do not harm the environment. (syndicatemarketresearch.com)
  • Production of biodiesel from algae has been completed and the oil content can be more than 50% of biomass (Rupprecht, 2009). (hedegard.nu)
  • Algae are particularly good to use since they lack lignin and have low levels of cellulose, while the remaining biomass can be used as fertilizer. (hedegard.nu)
  • Producing biomass to turn into biofuels requires natural resources, including fertile land, water and energy. (chinadialogue.net)
  • These renewable organic materials are called biomass, hence why ethanol-blended fuels are referred to as biofuels. (highflowfuel.com)
  • Biofuels are a wide range of fuels which are derived from biomass and can be used as a large source of energy supply. (researchwap.com)
  • The term covers solid biomass, liquid fuels and various biogases (Dembras, 2009). (researchwap.com)
  • Biofuels include ethanol made from sugar cane or diesel-like fuel made from soybean oil, dimethyl ether (DME) or Fischer - Tropsch Liquids (FTL) made from lignocellusosic biomass. (researchwap.com)
  • First generation fuels are generally those made from sugar, grains or seeds, i.e. one that uses only a specific (often edible) portion of the above - ground biomass produced by a plant , and relatively simple processing is required to produce a finished fuel. (researchwap.com)
  • Second generation fuels are generally those made from non-edible lignocellosic biomass, either non-edible residues of food crop production (e.g. corn stalks or rice husks) or non-edible whole plant biomass (e.g. grasses or trees grown specifically for energy). (researchwap.com)
  • Well, Nocera and his new colleagues at Harvard now report pairing their hydrogen-generating leaf with an engineered bacteria called Ralstonia eutropha to generate biomass and isopropyl alcohol, respectively - an alcohol fuel comparable to ethanol. (zmescience.com)
  • Biofuels like ethanol are made from biomass. (zmescience.com)
  • The Harvard system bypasses the biomass step and goes straight to liquid fuel thanks to their engineered bacterium. (zmescience.com)
  • Bio-ethanol is usually obtained from the conversion of carbon-based feedstock. (wikipedia.org)
  • Brazil is known to be far more successful than the USA at producing ethanol *efficiently* - meaning without consuming more petroleum inputs during production than the finished ethanol can displace - because of their ability to use feedstock from the sugar industry. (greenworldinvestor.com)
  • The company also thinks there is a possibility, if the industry can address some of the land, feedstock and technology issues that exist today, for up to 30% biofuels penetration into transportation by 2030, according to Susan Ellerbusch, VP Global Biofuels for BP. (greencarcongress.com)
  • BP is also collaborating with Mendel Biotechnology, a functional genomics company, on accelerating a breeding program for perennial grasses that can be used as feedstock for the production of cellulosic ethanol. (greencarcongress.com)
  • If it is something like algae, the cost of the feedstock - or the oil produced from it - is running about $31 a gallon. (comstocksmag.com)
  • Surplus sugar is one step closer to entering the U.S. biofuels industry as feedstock. (biomassmagazine.com)
  • The headline in a recent issue of Ethanol Producer Magazine says it all: "Colo. ethanol plant scores sugar feedstock for 6 cents per pound," as though the purchaser, Front Range Energy LLC, had just won the lottery. (earthtrack.net)
  • While sugar is a regular feedstock at Brazilian ethanol plants, the US isn't exactly known as the world's most efficient location for sugar production. (earthtrack.net)
  • Alfalfa too has been identified as a potential feedstock for bio-fuel. (copperwiki.org)
  • Ethanol from algae would eliminate the competition with feedstock, but research needs to be done on suitable enzymes, not the least to get the enzymes working in high salinity (Albers, 2010). (hedegard.nu)
  • At current production levels, corn- which is produced domestically in large volumes-is the most attractive feedstock for ethanol. (petrolmalaysia.com)
  • Switchgrass and poplars could be grown on CRP lands, where corn cannot be grown economically, but they would not be competitive with corn until corn prices rose or the capital and non-feedstock production costs of cellulosic ethanol were significantly reduced. (petrolmalaysia.com)
  • Second generation biofuels are basically produced from sustainable feedstock. (researchwap.com)
  • So far, that has largely meant corn ethanol. (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)
  • Thanks to this Soviet-style production quota system, which Congress created in 2005 and expanded in 2007, daily corn ethanol production in February increased by about 17,000 barrels to 647,000 barrels per day, despite weak motor-fuel demand and poor to negative profit margins for ethanol producers . (masterresource.org)
  • Under the 2007 RFS, corn ethanol used in motor fuel must increase from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 15 billion in 2015. (masterresource.org)
  • The resulting product is called cellulosic ethanol, indicating its source. (wikipedia.org)
  • Delivering that aggressive quantity of more than 600 billion liters (158.5 billion gallons US) of biofuels by 2030 would require progress particularly in the area of cellulosic biofuels, Ellerbusch said in a talk at Platts 3rd Annual Cellulosic Ethanol and Biofuels conference in Chicago (9-10 October). (greencarcongress.com)
  • In August, BP made a $90 million investment in Verenium and formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Since the author for your Peak Soil' article appears very against biofuels in general, I find it odd that one of her suggested actions is to continue funding research for cellulosic ethanol. (typepad.com)
  • Cellulosic ethanol, biomethanol, algae fuel, lignocelluloses, wood diesel etc are some second generation biofuels which are under development at present. (bcepe.cn)
  • Concerns about its production and use relate to increased food prices due to the large amount of arable land required for crops, as well as the energy and pollution balance of the whole cycle of ethanol production, especially from corn. (wikipedia.org)
  • During ethanol fermentation, glucose and other sugars in the corn (or sugarcane or other crops) are converted into ethanol and carbon dioxide. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, growing crops, making fertilizers and pesticides, and processing the plants into biofuel requires so much energy that it's questionable whether biofuels are really as environmentally friendly as they might seem on the surface. (techdirt.com)
  • 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)
  • Biofuels are a type of renewable energy derived from organic materials, such as crops, agricultural residues, or even algae. (popherald.com)
  • Made from non-food crops or agricultural residues, such as switchgrass, agricultural waste, or algae. (popherald.com)
  • By investing in biofuel crops, farmers can generate additional income and create job opportunities in agricultural and processing sectors. (popherald.com)
  • Growing biofuel crops can compete with food production and natural ecosystems, leading to deforestation and biodiversity loss. (popherald.com)
  • The use of food crops for biofuel production can increase food prices and impact food availability, especially in developing countries where hunger is already a concern. (popherald.com)
  • It involves manipulating living organisms or their genetic material to improve crops, create biofuels, produce medicines, clean up pollutants, and much more. (hakia.com)
  • Some algae produce triglycerides such as those produced by soybeans and other oil-rich crops. (technologyreview.com)
  • The bio-fuel industry in the US has not only triggered increases in the prices of corn, oilseeds, and other grains but also in the prices of seemingly unrelated crops and products. (copperwiki.org)
  • edit ] All about Smart Bio-Fuel Crops? (copperwiki.org)
  • Smart bio-fuel crops are those that ensure food security, contribute to energy security, provide environmental sustainability, tolerate the impacts of climate change on shortage of water and high temperatures, and increase livelihood options. (copperwiki.org)
  • Algae do not also compete with food resources, forcing humans to chose between alternative energy or agricultural crops for human consumption. (fwhps.org)
  • Using next-generation biofuels based on non-food crops, waste or algae may improve things, but the conclusion is similar: producing biofuels at the same volumes as we consume fossil fuels will require more land and water than are sustainably available. (chinadialogue.net)
  • When fossil fuels are burned, they generate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases . (greenlivingtips.com)
  • Sugarcane ethanol has a better greenhouse gas emissions balance, and has sidestreams coming off such as bagasse that can be used in boilers. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Both ethanol and biodiesel are better alternatives to fossil fuels and both reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Biofuels have the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decrease our reliance on non-renewable resources. (uaeclimateaction.com)
  • The 'Greenhouse oppourtunity cost' of biofuels is far too high. (typepad.com)
  • Pongamia can be grown even by remote communities who can use it as their own fuel source, cut down on greenhouse emissions and even have their own electricity. (copperwiki.org)
  • Biofuels are gaining increased public and scientific attention, driven by factors such as oil price spikes, the need for increased energy security, concern over greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, and government subsidies. (researchwap.com)
  • This was followed by an era of numerous investments in "second generation" biofuels and chemicals, mostly focused on sugar and syngas platforms or algae. (biocycle.net)
  • Biofuels are broadly classified into two classes: first generation biofuels and second generation biofuels. (bcepe.cn)
  • Researchers with the U.S. DOE's Joint BioEnergy Institute have reported the first demonstration of a one-pot, wash-free, process for the ionic liquid pretreatment and saccharification of switchgrass, one of the leading potential biofuel feedstocks. (biomassmagazine.com)
  • By using switchgrass for fuel, we can use corn and beans solely for food. (typepad.com)
  • Ongoing research seeks to enhance biofuel production efficiency, find new feedstocks, and improve conversion technologies. (popherald.com)
  • There are several dozen biofuels companies in California at this point, most of them pursuing second- and third-generation biofuels," says Gary Simon, co-chair of the CleanStart program run by the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance. (comstocksmag.com)
  • Ethanol is made from corn and soybeans biodiesel is being produced in the United States. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • These renewable fuels are derived from organic materials like corn, soybeans, and algae. (uaeclimateaction.com)
  • A 2009 report from Pike Research in Boulder, Colo., forecasts the combined biodiesel and ethanol markets will reach $247 billion in sales by 2020, up from just $76 billion in 2010, or about 12 percent annual growth. (comstocksmag.com)
  • Biofuels, such as biodiesel and ethanol, are gaining popularity as alternatives to traditional fossil fuels. (uaeclimateaction.com)
  • Typically, official uses of the term, such as qualification for governmental incentives, exclude fossil fuels and nuclear energy whose undesired consequences are high carbon dioxide emissions, the major contributing factor of global warming according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and difficulties of radioactive waste disposal. (crystalinks.com)
  • In a general sense in contemporary society, alternative energy is that which is produced without the undesirable consequences of the burning of fossil fuels, such as high carbon dioxide emissions, which is considered to be the major contributing factor of global warming according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (crystalinks.com)
  • Biofuels have the potential to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions compared to fossil fuels. (popherald.com)
  • These fuels have great potency to be used in different sectors but currently their main purpose is actualized in the transportation sector (especially liquid biofuels) where easy fuel storage and less pollution are sought after. (bcepe.cn)
  • A relatively recently popularized classification for liquid biofuels includes first generation and second generation fuels. (researchwap.com)
  • BP is also looking at the possibility of that sugarcane ethanol becoming sugarcane butanol in the future. (greencarcongress.com)
  • Optinol Inc. announced that the company has achieved energy cost parity feasibility with ethanol for the production of biobutanol (n-butanol) from a wide variety of sugars using a production solution tailored to an organism. (biomassmagazine.com)
  • Typically, butanol is produced via ABE fermentation, which results in solvents in ratio of 3 parts acetone, 6 parts butanol, and 1 part ethanol, and butanol refinement is not reliant on local reservoirs of fossil fuels. (billfryer.com)
  • Plenty of research is already under way to figure out ways to make biofuel production more efficient with the help of microorganisms. (techdirt.com)
  • The BP-DuPont partnership on producing biobutanol is showing good results ( earlier post ), and the partners have demonstrated 16% blend rates with biobutanol versus a 10% blend rate with ethanol (Bu16 vs E10). (greencarcongress.com)
  • One blend contains 10 percent ethanol and the other 85 percent. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Although not overtly a mandate, raising the blend ceiling to 15% would likely make 15% the industry standard, because refiners are under constant legal pressure to increase the amount of ethanol they blend into the nation's fuel supply. (masterresource.org)
  • E85, also known as Flex Fuel, is a high-volume ethanol blend that can only be used in engines designed explicitly for Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs). (highflowfuel.com)
  • In California during 2013, Propel Fuels and Solazyme announced that sales grew by 35% at Propel stations, offering SoladieselBD in a B20 blend during a 30-day retail pilot program, compared to non-test sites. (greenautomarket.com)
  • These higher concentrations reduce the amount of infrastructure needed to grow the algae, and also make it much easier to collect the algae and extract the oil, Jarvis says, significantly reducing costs. (technologyreview.com)
  • Biodiesel offers many benefits and is significantly better than ethanol when it comes to the negative effects on the Earth, as well as comparing net energy gains from the end product. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • The significantly higher ethanol content and octane of E85 can only be used with engines specifically designed to accommodate it. (highflowfuel.com)
  • A PNNL study has shown the nation's wastewater resource recovery facilities could generate revenue by converting sludge into biofuel-while significantly reducing disposal costs-using an in-house-developed technology. (pnnl.gov)
  • Viewed in conjunction with the agency's recent proposed tailpipe emissions standards, it is now clear that the Biden Administration is dangerously overestimating the speed at which the country will be able to transition to zero emissions vehicles, and at the same time underestimating the country's desire to consume lower-carbon liquid fuels in the meantime," wrote NATSO, which represents truck stops and travel plazas, in a statement. (greenbiz.com)
  • It requires suppliers to reduce fuel emissions by 10 percent by 2020 - and biologically derived fuels have lower emissions, says Tim Taylor, manager of the land use communication and mobile source division of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District. (comstocksmag.com)
  • Ethanol is an oxygenate that enhances fuel combustion, producing lower carbon monoxide and pollution emissions. (highflowfuel.com)
  • VW still shows support for algae fuels as part of its clean fuels strategy in the post-diesel emissions fraud reporting scandal, along with its ambitious plug-in electric vehicle launch lineup. (greenautomarket.com)
  • Joule Unlimited has invented a genetically-engineered organism that it says simply secretes diesel fuel or ethanol wherever it finds sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Joule says its organisms secrete a completed product, already identical to ethanol and the components of diesel fuel, then live on to keep producing it at remarkable rates. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • The fermentation products are then converted into a mix of hydrocarbons that are similar to those in diesel fuel. (techdirt.com)
  • Other vehicles burn diesel fuel. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • In addition, biodiesel can be added to regular diesel or burned without any diesel fuel added. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Just an Earth day or two ago, I was led to ask Google about the history of diesel fuel, while the discussion in this or nearby topics was running strong. (newmars.com)
  • A patented process for converting alcohol sourced from renewable or industrial waste gasses into jet or diesel fuel is being scaled up at PNNL. (pnnl.gov)
  • It is also into production of ethanol from a combination of sugar beets and wheat with direct and indirect subsidies. (copperwiki.org)
  • URL: http://www.ethanol.org/index.php?id=53&parentid=29) Lobbyists also claim that food price increases are not caused by the production of ethanol, but are caused by higher energy prices. (petrolmalaysia.com)
  • Biofuels are derived from organic materials that can be replenished, making them a more sustainable option compared to finite fossil fuels. (popherald.com)
  • Other countries use different plants and organic materials like rapeseed or other plants to produce these fuels. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Biofuels are a source of renewable energy in the form of bioenergy, which is derived from organic waste . (bcepe.cn)
  • The main controversy revolving around ethanol in fuels, at least for the USA, is that consumers' stomachs will be in direct competition with the auto industry for corn, and other organic sources of ethanol. (petrolmalaysia.com)
  • Rather than growing algae in ponds or enclosed in plastic tubes that are exposed to the sun, as other companies are trying to do, Solazyme grows the organisms in the dark, inside huge stainless-steel containers. (technologyreview.com)
  • Just as important, feeding algae sugar makes it possible to grow them in concentrations that are orders of magnitude higher than when they're grown in ponds using energy from the sun, says Eric Jarvis , a biofuels researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO. (Jarvis is not connected to Solazyme. (technologyreview.com)
  • Indeed, Jarvis warns that one of the most expensive parts of making fuels from cellulosic sources is processing them to create simple sugars, a part of the process that Solazyme isn't focused on improving. (technologyreview.com)
  • Solazyme hopes to begin selling its fuel in two to three years, Dillon says. (technologyreview.com)
  • One of the surprises happened earlier this year with Solazyme renaming itself TerraVia, which will no longer focus on its fuels and industrial businesses. (greenautomarket.com)
  • Based in South San Francisco, Solazyme had been a staunch advocate of algae biodiesel for years. (greenautomarket.com)
  • Last year, Volkswagen of America had successful completion of its Renewable Diesel Evaluation Program in collaboration with Solazyme and Amyris, Inc., another algae fuel supplier. (greenautomarket.com)
  • For transportation fuels, they're primarily used as biodiesel, but have other applications for cars, jets, and military vehicles. (greenautomarket.com)
  • In fact, Tickell's quest to open the public imagination in favor of biofuels was rocked by the recent backlash against ethanol production and its unintended consequences: Amazonian deforestation and the perilous rise in food prices for the world's poor. (futurist.com)
  • Among the things covered: Cellulosic biofuels (made from grasses, wood, algae or other plants), biodiesel (made from vegetable oils and animal fats) and ethanol. (greenbiz.com)
  • Ethanol production isn't limited to these sources alone and can be manufactured using other plant materials like grasses, wood, or algae. (highflowfuel.com)
  • Ethanol fuel is fuel containing ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol as found in alcoholic beverages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ethanol, otherwise known as ethyl alcohol, is a biofuel addictive created by fermenting biological matter. (highflowfuel.com)
  • A key for Joule is the cyanobacterium it chose, which is found everywhere and is less complex than algae, so it's easier to genetically manipulate, said biologist Dan Robertson, Joule's top scientist. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • The new process combines genetically modified strains of algae with an uncommon approach to growing algae to reduce the cost of making fuel. (technologyreview.com)
  • Diatoms and green algae seem to be most promising considering yield (Demirbas & Demirbas, 2011). (hedegard.nu)
  • As America looks for greener alternative fuels to limit the impact of climate change and create a more energy independent economy, microscopic green algae hold great promise. (fwhps.org)
  • Significant research suggests that higher ethanol blends will increase air pollution (see here and here ). (masterresource.org)
  • Per unit of energy, the water footprint of photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy is ten to a hundred times smaller than that of fossil fuels and nuclear, while the water footprint of hydroelectricity and bio-energy is a hundred to a thousand times larger. (chinadialogue.net)
  • It is also possible to generate ethanol out of cellulosic materials. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ethanol based fuels do not generate as much energy as petrol. (petrolmalaysia.com)
  • Using only energy from the sun, a pioneering artificial leaf system splits water to generate hydrogen - a highly energy dense fuel. (zmescience.com)
  • Energy derived from fossil fuels create a heavy toll on the environment. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientist Philip Pienkos said Joule's technology is exciting but unproven, and their claims of efficiency are undercut by difficulties they could have just collecting the fuel their organism is producing. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Work to create fuel from solar energy has been done for decades, such as by making ethanol from corn or extracting fuel from algae. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • In my area, demonstrations often occur at or near oil refineries and, in my view, too often, activists have called, in speeches and rhetorical flourishes for fossil fuel companies to join or fund the clean energy revolution, either via their own good will or under duress. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Protestors seem to be unaware that the fossil fuel companies have little of the intellectual capital to help build the clean energy future and I'm not sure we would want them to acquire it either. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • for the needed energy transition to happen, the participation of the soon-to-be-former fossil fuel industry is not important. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Many activists in the anti-fossil fuel movement, that sometimes calls itself the "climate justice" movement, appear also often to be motivated by "small is beautiful" social and technological visions that are at some remove from the present-day reality of energy, politics, civilization, and the economy. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • The highly anticipated High Seas Treaty was officially adopted by all United Nations member states, while the Biden administration officially published its new mandates for incorporating biofuels into the U.S. energy mix over the next three years. (greenbiz.com)
  • Train tanker cars waiting to be loaded at the Adkins Energy ethanol plant in Lena Illinois (May 2020). (greenbiz.com)
  • The ministry had argued that mixing of ethanol in petrol was an environment-friendly initiative, which would save the country foreign exchange, provide energy security and benefit the sugar industry. (greenworldinvestor.com)
  • Both Ellerbusch and John McKenna, Managing Director of energy investment bank Hamilton Clark & Co., who chaired her session, noted that the current environment, with the frozen debt market and plummeting equity market, is an excellent time to invest in companies in the advanced biofuels sector. (greencarcongress.com)
  • The Renewable Fuel Standard promised to pay farmers to fight climate change and boost U.S. energy independence. (civileats.com)
  • Alternative Energy is an umbrella term that refers to any source of usable energy intended to replace fuel sources without the undesired consequences of the replaced fuels. (crystalinks.com)
  • By reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels, countries can enhance their energy security and become more self-reliant. (popherald.com)
  • Developing a biofuel industry can help diversify the energy mix and reduce reliance on geopolitically unstable regions. (popherald.com)
  • Biofuel production demands significant amounts of water, energy, and fertilizers. (popherald.com)
  • Biofuels can be integrated into existing energy and transportation systems, playing a role in decarbonizing not only road transport but also aviation and shipping. (popherald.com)
  • By investing in research, improving cultivation practices, and considering the wider environmental and social impacts, biofuels can play an essential role in transitioning to a more sustainable and resilient energy future. (popherald.com)
  • Such cellulosic sources require less energy, land, and water to grow than corn grain, the primary source of biofuel in the United States. (technologyreview.com)
  • Instead of getting energy from sunlight, the algae get energy from the sugars that the researchers feed them. (technologyreview.com)
  • Some energy is used in the production of this biofuel and the calculations show that ethanol only gives 25 percent more energy than it takes to create it. (bionomicfuel.com)
  • Increasingly, expensive oil, coal and global warming are causing an energy revolution by requiring fossil fuels to be supplemented by alternative energy sources and by requiring changes in lifestyle. (typepad.com)
  • The facts, they say, show that ethanol , like it or not, is now bolted onto the very core of three huge industries: energy, meat and banking. (greenerideal.com)
  • In addition to optimizing the energy efficiency of all kinds of energy technologies, energy storage enables the increasing use of renewable energy in place of fossil fuels. (syndicatemarketresearch.com)
  • Other advantages over conventional sources of energy are low carbon emission, easy manufacturing (from huge range of materials like agricultural waste , algae, garbage etc.), economic stimulation (by employing workers for maintenance etc.), reduced dependency over foreign fuel sources and easy handling. (bcepe.cn)
  • Biofuels are a good alternative for harnessing energy which can reduce the alarming burden over fossil fuels for providing energy to this power-hungry world. (bcepe.cn)
  • The future of biofuels solely depends upon how best we can harness the energy stored in them. (bcepe.cn)
  • Although currently the status of biofuels does not match the required energy landmarks, due to lack of efficient technology or other limitations, more research in this field can surely bring up the real potential of such renewable fuels to their proper use for mankind. (bcepe.cn)
  • In this way the algae production can be continuous and energy demanding steps such as harvesting, drying and extraction can be avoided (Algenol, n.d. (hedegard.nu)
  • Our reliance on fossil fuels as the primary source of energy has led us to worry about "energy scarcity" as a major risk to economic development and national security. (chinadialogue.net)
  • However, with current energy-intensive agricultural practices we sometimes need to input about the same amount of energy as will be produced in the form of biofuel. (chinadialogue.net)
  • While most of our water consumption still goes into producing our food, energy production could become a larger water consumer in future if we replace fossil fuels with biofuels at substantial scale. (chinadialogue.net)
  • Algae are photosynthetic organisms related to plants that grow in water and produce energy from carbon dioxide and sunlight. (greenautomarket.com)
  • The awareness of the imminent depletion of fossil fuels coupled with a global energy crisis has stimulated interest in the research for alternative energy source (Garba et al. (researchwap.com)
  • 1996). The urgent need for alternative and cheaper energy supplies in Nigeria is increasingly apparent now considering the epileptic supply and distribution of the fossil fuels that have risen beyond the reach of Nigerian rural people (Eze, 2003). (researchwap.com)
  • Carbon-neutral waste-to-fuel flow cell process generates its own energy. (pnnl.gov)
  • Also, while hydrogen has more energy per unit mass than other fuels, it's much less dense than other fuels. (zmescience.com)
  • Right now, there's more energy going into growing the microbes and extracting the fuel than going out. (zmescience.com)
  • The oil can be extracted and further processed to make a range of fuels, including diesel and jet fuel, as well as other products. (technologyreview.com)
  • High percentage ethanol mixtures are used in some racing engine applications as the very high octane rating of ethanol is compatible with very high compression ratios. (wikipedia.org)
  • E10 and E15 blends are used to create the 87-95 octane fuels commonly available at gas stations. (highflowfuel.com)
  • What you should know: The rules increase the amount that must be blended into the U.S. fuel mix over the next three years, from 21.54 billion gallons in 2023 to 22.33 billion gallons in 2025. (greenbiz.com)
  • The revelations cast doubt on the likelihood of achieving the Rees Government's mandatory target of 6 per cent by 2010, with plans to give motorists the choice in 2011 of only E10 (which contains 10 per cent ethanol) or premium unleaded. (petrolmalaysia.com)
  • While most modern vehicles are specifically engineered to handle these fuel blends, many cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, and UTVs can run into problems when using certain ethanol-fuel combinations. (highflowfuel.com)
  • As long as proper cultivation practices are followed, biofuels can be produced indefinitely. (popherald.com)
  • The sustainability of biofuels depends on minimizing resource consumption during cultivation and processing. (popherald.com)
  • In collaboration with the Durack Institute of Technology, Australia-based Aurora Algae reported that it has completed construction of a new algae cultivation site in Geraldton, Western Australia. (biomassmagazine.com)
  • A short http://charity.florist/can-you-get-clarinex-without-a-prescription/ review on biobutanol, a second generation biofuel production is algae clarinex online purchase cultivation. (billfryer.com)
  • In these approaches, the algae are grown in ponds or bioreactors where they are exposed to sunlight and make their own sugar. (technologyreview.com)
  • Currently, industrial algae is being grown and harvested in ponds that are located in arid or tropical regions due to their favorable climates, vast open spaces and cheap land. (fwhps.org)
  • Algae can be grown rapidly and produce large amounts of fuel relative to the resources used to grow them - but it does need significant investment and supporters who will continue to back it over several years. (greenautomarket.com)
  • It is an alcohol ester product from the transesterification of triglycerides in vegetable oils or animals accomplished by reacting lower alcohols such as methanol or ethanol with triglycerides. (researchwap.com)
  • Their finding suggests that algal biofuels could also be produced in the ocean, in the brackish water of tidelands, or even on otherwise unusable agricultural land with high salt content in the soil. (techdirt.com)
  • Note USA is a huge food surplus country with massive quantities of corn being produced every year which makes it feasible for it to implement a dumb policy,however India does not possess such agricultural riches to implement mandatory blending of biofuels. (greenworldinvestor.com)
  • California-based NextFuels has emerged from stealth mode and is unveiling its strategy to produce advanced biofuels from wet, unprocessed agricultural waste via a hydrothermal process originally developed by Shell in the 1980s. (biomassmagazine.com)
  • Now in its 40th year, the FEW provides the ethanol industry with cutting-edge content and unparalleled networking opportunities in a dynamic business-to-business environment. (ethanolproducer.com)
  • Capturing and storing carbon dioxide in underground wells has the potential to become the most consequential technological deployment in the history of the broader biofuels industry. (ethanolproducer.com)
  • The North American SAF Conference & Expo, produced by SAF Magazine, in collaboration with the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) will showcase the latest strategies for aviation fuel decarbonization, solutions for key industry challenges, and highlight the current opportunities for airlines, corporations and fuel producers. (biodieselmagazine.com)
  • The total amounts required under the new policy are higher than previous versions, but biofuels industry groups say they don't go far enough. (greenbiz.com)
  • The chemicals and alcohol industry says there is not enough ethanol for everyone and it would be forced to import if ethanol was diverted for blending. (greenworldinvestor.com)
  • Do advanced biofuels companies really need to be "thinking IPO", industry leaders were asking this week after Elevance Renewable Sciences announced that it has raised $104 million in its Series E financing round. (altenergystocks.com)
  • This includes effective communication of benefits, addressing concerns, and fostering a sustainable biofuel industry. (popherald.com)
  • The ethanol industry enjoys a multitude of market-rigging privileges including the RFS, tariffs to keep out cheaper Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane, and a 45-cents-per-gallon blenders tax credit for each gallon of ethanol sold in motor fuel. (masterresource.org)
  • This project may be just one small step in learning about the bio-fuels industry however, it could possibly lead to a new economic model within our local communities. (fwhps.org)
  • Quantum Fuel Systems is an industry leader in high-quality OE replacement and performance fuel system components. (highflowfuel.com)
  • The U.S. ethanol industry relies almost exclusively on corn, consuming 20 percent of the available corn supply in 2006. (petrolmalaysia.com)
  • However, algae fuel still has several deep-pocket investors and industry groups supporting it as a clean fuel option. (greenautomarket.com)
  • Biofuels are generally made by using chemicals, fermentation, and heat to break down the starches, sugars, and other molecules in plants to produce a fuel that can be used by vehicles. (techdirt.com)
  • Recently, BP teamed up with the University of Illinois, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley, and Seoul National University to engineer a yeast strain that can simultaneously ferment two different sugars to produce ethanol. (makebiofuel.co.uk)
  • Solazyme's method has advantages over other approaches that use microorganisms to convert sugars into fuel. (technologyreview.com)
  • The most common approaches use microorganisms such as yeast to ferment sugars, forming ethanol. (technologyreview.com)
  • What's more, the algae has a particular advantage over many other microorganisms when it comes to processing sugars from cellulosic sources, such as grass and wood chips. (technologyreview.com)
  • Amyris, one of the two biofuels supporters of VW's test project, applies its bioscience solutions to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules, specialty ingredients, and consumer products. (greenautomarket.com)
  • Also, check out more news, with a specific twist on sustainable aviation fuels, in our colleague AJ Artis' article . (greenbiz.com)
  • There is about 25-35 million hectares of such badly degraded land that could be a viable option for biofuels going forward, Ellerbusch said. (greencarcongress.com)
  • For example, algae-based oils are becoming a viable option for biofuel production, and advanced methods like supercritical CO2 extraction are being employed to extract high-value compounds from plants efficiently. (uaeclimateaction.com)
  • Filling the 25-gallon tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires over 450 pounds of corn -- which contains enough calories to feed one person for a year. (copperwiki.org)
  • The oils made by Solazyme's algae can then be used for a wider range of products than ethanol, says Harrison Dillon , the company's president and chief technology officer. (technologyreview.com)
  • Algae are made of vegetable oils, proteins and carbohydrates - like any grain . (copperwiki.org)
  • A few years ago, algae biofuels and oils looked like ideal options for the future of clean transportation. (greenautomarket.com)
  • Appealing factors have included emission reductions and the ability to tap into the renewable fuels and oils through plants. (greenautomarket.com)
  • During combustion, ethanol reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and heat: C2H5OH + 3 O2 → 2 CO2 + 3 H2O + heat Starch and cellulose molecules are strings of glucose molecules. (wikipedia.org)
  • A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • The Cambridge, Mass. -based company says it can manipulate the organism to produce the renewable fuels on demand at unprecedented rates, and can do it in facilities large and small at costs comparable to the cheapest fossil fuels. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Joule claims, for instance, that its cyanobacterium can produce 15,000 gallons of diesel full per acre annually, over four times more than the most efficient algal process for making fuel. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • The organisms are engineered to take in sunlight and carbon dioxide, then produce and secrete ethanol or hydrocarbons - the basis of various fuels, such as diesel - as a byproduct of photosynthesis. (capitolhillblue.com)
  • Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that marine algae can also be used to produce biofuels like fresh water algae. (techdirt.com)
  • In other terms, the engineered yeast can boost ethanol production and, at the same time, make the fuel both easier and cheaper to produce. (makebiofuel.co.uk)
  • The company uses different strains of algae to produce different types of oil. (technologyreview.com)
  • The process also has significant advantages over a quite different way of using algae to create biofuels-one that makes use of algae's ability to employ sunlight to produce their own supply of sugar, using photosynthesis. (technologyreview.com)
  • First, keeping the algae in the dark causes them to produce more oil than they do in the light. (technologyreview.com)
  • But in the past 18 months, improvements in the amount of oil that the algae produce have convinced the company that competitive costs are within reach. (technologyreview.com)
  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mandate in place to produce a certain amount of corn for ethanol use. (greenerideal.com)
  • Corn uses more fuel to produce bio-fuel and it needs more nitrogen to grow it. (copperwiki.org)
  • The common thread is use of solar power to produce the fuel. (newmars.com)
  • If the combination of flex-fuel vehicles and E-85 is such a great bargain, consumers will demand them, and profit-seeking companies will produce and deliver them for sale, all without another mandate. (masterresource.org)
  • Considering we don't know exactly how all of our oil was formed to begin with… it's possible that we're just re-inventing what biology made for us when it created fossil fuels. (techdirt.com)
  • For the last decade, ethanol has helped keep corn in high demand, and made it the most-planted U.S. crop. (civileats.com)
  • Brazil has fueled car engines with ethanol since the 1980's, traditionally made from corn and sugar canes. (hedegard.nu)
  • The companies say it's the first time that ethanol made from algae will be available commercially. (greenautomarket.com)
  • The company's researchers feed algae sugar, which the organisms then convert into various types of oil. (technologyreview.com)
  • Additionally, fossil fuels are finite. (greenlivingtips.com)
  • Additionally, the infrastructure required for widespread biofuel adoption poses a significant challenge. (popherald.com)
  • Additionally, we recommend referencing your vehicle-specific owner's manual to confirm the suitable fuel type and grade. (highflowfuel.com)
  • Other reports forecast a more modest compound annual growth rate between 8 percent and 10 percent, but even that would mean about 6 percent of the world's estimated liquid fuel production in 2020 would come from biofuels. (comstocksmag.com)
  • Algae are one of the planet's most oil rich species, and humans should be tapping into this resource as a potential solution to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, foreign oil and move into a more sustainable economy. (fwhps.org)