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Research shows that the use of corn ethanol reduces the carbon footprint and diminishes greenhouse gases.

A new lifecycle analysis by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory has found that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol has decreased 23%—from 58 to 45 gCO2e/MJ—from 2005 to 2019. Their open-access paper is published in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. Carbon intensity (gCO2e/MJ undenatured ethanol) of corn ethanol without...

May 24, 2021 Research shows that the use of corn ethanol reduces the carbon footprint and diminishes greenhouse gases. The use of corn ethanol from 2005 to 2019 has reduced the carbon footprint in the United States and diminished greenhouse gases, according to an Argonne study. (Image by Smileus/Shutterstock.) A study conducted by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory reveals that the use of corn ethanol is reducing the carbon footprint and diminishing greenhouse gases. The study, recently published in Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, analyze...

 E-Mail A study conducted by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory reveals that the use of corn ethanol is reducing the carbon footprint and diminishing greenhouse gases. The study, recently published in Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, analyzes corn ethanol production in the United States from 2005 to 2019, when production more than quadrupled. Scientists assessed corn ethanol's greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity (sometimes known as carbon intensity, or CI) during that period and found a 23% reduction in CI. According to Argonne scienti...

Friday, May 21, 2021 On Tuesday, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announced a series of initiatives to reduce the negative environmental impacts of residential and commercial buildings. Homes and buildings generate more than one-third of the carbon pollution released by the United States each year, use about 40% of the country’s energy, and result in more than $100 billion of waste due to energy inefficiency. In response to the building and construction sector’s significant contributions to climate change, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled the Initiati...