Nationally, about 5 billion bushels of corn go into ethanol production ... get $60 to $70 for each bone-dry ton of stover. Environmentalists worry that too much crop residue could be removed ...

Among the four ethanol fuel producing plants, Tianguan Group ... Each hectare can yield about 20 tons of dry batata, which can be converted into 3-5 tons of ethanol. China has 440,000 hectares ...

Ethanol can be made from any crop or plant that contains a large amount of sugar or components that can be converted into sugar, such as starch or cellulose. Sugar beets and sugar cane can have ...

Instead, it was that Amyris was going into ... the crops themselves are concerned, there are three runners at the starting gate: grasses, trees and algae. Grasses and trees are grown on dry ...

Ethanol plants utilize energy equivalent to about 28 percent of their output, but much more energy is consumed in the process of growing corn and soybeans to be made into fuel. Production of ...

As fewer drivers get behind the wheel to go to work or run daily errands, it’s already eating into ethanol outlooks, with some ethanol plants considering shutting down, and one ethanol leader ...

dry heat. It turns out that a tipple may be just what plants need too. A peer-reviewed study published Thursday in the journal Plant and Cell Physiology suggests that ethanol – or alcohol ...