EPA's Folly: Ethanol and Biofuels. Google Image Result for. Ethanol or regular unleaded? Posted: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:00 am Barfknecht: Second to none?
Izzo says B1G tourney could resemble Final Four In My Opinion Column by Lee Barfknecht / World-Herald staff writer The Omaha World-Herald No wonder the Big Ten men's basketball tournament was sold out six weeks in advance. This week's action Thursday through Sunday at the United Center in Chicago could be as entertaining — or better — than the NCAA tournament. National, state and local average prices for gasoline, diesel and E-85. Www.ascension-publishing.com/BIZ/HD2-Neb.pdf. Renewable Energy Sources. Investment in and use of renewable energy is both encouraged and required by a range of federal, state, and local government legislation and utility incentives.
The following is a brief description of the major types currently in place: Federal Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) — The PTC is an inflation-adjusted tax credit for electricity produced from qualifying renewable energy sources or technologies. The PTC was initiated with the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and subsequently renewed and amended several times, most recently in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Under current law (as of May 2012), most types of eligible projects have to be in service by December 31, 2013; and wind power projects by December 31, 2012. Www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/pdf/0383(2012).pdf. Www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ140/pdf/PLAW-110publ140.pdf. Www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-109publ58/pdf/PLAW-109publ58.pdf. Ethanol Fuel History. Highlights on Renewable/Reformulated Ethanol Alcohol Blends of Fuel During Past Decade (1998 - 2009): 1989 - 2000 Summary - Selected Environmental Regulations Affecting the Product Quality of U.S.
Motor Gasoline: June 1989 Phase 1 Summer Volatility (RVP) Regulation May 1992 Phase 2 Summer Volatility (RVP) Regulation November 1992 Oxygenated Gasoline December 1994 Reformulated Gasoline Phase 1 January 2000 Reformulated Gasoline Phase 2 1999 Some states began to pass bans on MTBE because traces of it were showing up in drinking water sources. 2003 California began switching from MTBE to ethanol to make reformulated gasoline. (California was the first state to completely ban MTBE, effective January 1, 2004). Www.usbiomassboard.gov/pdfs/8_Increasing_Biofuels_Feedstock_Production.pdf. Beef Products Inc. - History. Pink Slime News, Photos and Videos. Biofuels 'crime against humanity' A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity.
The UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, said he feared biofuels would bring more hunger. The growth in the production of biofuels has helped to push the price of some crops to record levels. Mr Ziegler's remarks, made at the UN headquarters in New York, are clearly designed to grab attention. He complained of an ill-conceived dash to convert foodstuffs such as maize and sugar into fuel, which created a recipe for disaster. Food price rises. E15: Damaging Vehicles & Small Engines. Because higher ethanol fuel blends (like E15 and E85) have less energy content than regular gasoline, they deliver lower fuel economy and cost consumers more money at the pump.
They are also corrosive when used in most automobiles, meaning they can harm engines and compromise vehicle performance. Even so, our government is mandating increased ethanol in our fuels, putting biofuels mandates ahead of the safety and convenience of American consumers and manufacturers. Decreased Fuel Economy Ethanol contains 33 percent less energy per gallon than gasoline, and vehicles fueled with ethanol cover fewer miles per gallon than those running on conventional gasoline.
The higher the ethanol blend, the lower the fuel economy, meaning consumers must fill up at the pump more frequently. Damage to Vehicles and Performance. Plotting Ethanol's Course Out Of The Perfect Storm. Drought, Climate Change, Corn Prices, Ethanol and Biofuels. Advanced biofuels developers fear corn debate might ‘unravel’ their industry - Governors' Biofuels Coalition. When U.S.
EPA hands down its decision on whether or not to waive the federal ethanol mandate in response to the drought, the corn ethanol and livestock industries won’t be the only ones keeping a sharp eye on it. The cellulosic biofuels sector and other advanced biofuels sectors — those that do not use corn as a feedstock — will also be watching closely. A waiver of the corn ethanol mandate, the fledgling industries worry, could send a signal to crucial investors that the government is not committed to growing domestic biofuels production.
Representatives from advanced industries say their connection to the success of traditional ethanol is something that has been missed by the public in the debate over the renewable fuel standard’s corn ethanol requirements. “You can’t just say, ‘Gosh, I don’t like corn; let’s remove the corn mandate,’” said Brent Erikson, executive vice president in charge of the Industrial and Environmental Section at the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Iowa Is Top Corn & Soybean Producer. Iowa maintained its lead as the nation's top corn-producing state, but farmers saw the price of corn plunge down the 40 cent per bushel limit.
That's what happened last week on Thursday, January 12, 2012 when USDA released its annual Crop Production Summary for 2011. USDA's final estimate on the 2011 harvest, with increases in Iowa and U.S. corn production and a larger than expected figure for corn stocks, dropped corn prices to $6.11 per bushel Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Iowa's final yield of 172 bushels of corn per acre for a statewide average leads the nation for 2011, and is up 1 bushel per acre from the December estimate and ahead of the 2010 final yield of 165 bushels per acre.
Iowa's total 2011 corn production is estimated at 2.356 billion bushels, up from 2.153 billion bushels produced in 2010--but short of the record 2.420 billion set in 2009. Www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/pdfs/final_billionton_vision_report2.pdf. Biomass and Bioenergy - Engineering aspects of collecting corn stover for bioenergy. A Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O.
Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6422, USAb Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1511 East 2050 North, North Logan, UT 84341-8804, USAc Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Technical University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0303, USA Received 15 October 2001, Revised 15 April 2002, Accepted 3 May 2002, Available online 17 September 2002 Choose an option to locate/access this article: Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Check access Get rights and content Abstract More than 216 million t (238 million tons) of corn stover (dry basis) is produced annually in the USA of which a portion could possibly be collected for conversion to ethanol and other industrial products.