Sentence examples for growing feedstocks from inspiring English sources

Our analysis indicated preferences were dependent upon individual and environmental characteristics, with younger, more rural landowners significantly more interested in growing feedstocks relative to their older and more urban counterparts.

To make matters worse, bioplastic feedstocks can have a significant water footprint, and growing feedstocks like sugarcane could lead to more deforestation in tropical regions and countries like Brazil.

And even if cellulose refining comes of age, skeptics worry that companies will simply buy up land to grow feedstock crops like switch grass or fast-growing poplar trees with the same harmful consequences.

Estimates of how much land that would require vary widely, but for biofuels to meet nearly 30percentt of transportation needs by midcentury, 100 million hectares would have to be dedicated to growing the feedstocks, the IEA concluded in a 2011 report.

Thus, growing biofuel feedstocks could actually increase greenhouse gas emissions instead of abating them [see "The Carbon Footprint of Biofuels: Can We Shrink It Down to Size in Time?" EHP 116 A246 A252 (2008)].

Despite these concerns, little is known about the preferences of rural households in terms of biomass fuels and the way of harvesting and growing the feedstock.

Water is consumed to mine uranium, tar sands, and coal; to recover oil and natural gas; and to grow biofuel feedstocks.

Subsidies which were meant to encourage farmers to turn their slurry and crop wastes into biogas – a sensible and commendable idea – are instead being used to grow virgin feedstocks on the best arable land.

Our analytical framework also incorporated data from a previously-administered revealed preference survey and spatially-explicit remote sensing data, enabling us to analyze how individuals' ownership characteristics, their emotional connection the forests they manage, and the spatial patterns of nearby land uses, influence willingness to grow bioenergy feedstocks.

The selection of land on which to grow the feedstocks is a critical component of the ability of biofuels to deliver sustainable solutions.

The use of old fields, restored prairie, or marginal lands to grow biofuel feedstocks offers several potential benefits including minimal agronomic inputs, reduced competition with food production, and high biodiversity.