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Several companies are now trying to commercialize biobutanol, including some seeking to retrofit existing ethanol facilities.

很多公司正在试图商业化生物丁醇，一些试图改造现有的乙醇生产装置来生产丁醇。

ActionAid was one of the 90 organizations that wrote to U. S. congressional leaders urging an end to the ethanol tax credit.

“救援行动”组织是写信要求国会领袖取消对乙醇业者减税优惠的90个组织之一。

But Tyner said the cobs and husks of corn used to make ethanol would go on to be used for animal feed.

但是，Tyner认为，除了生产乙醇的玉米粒之外，玉米芯和玉米皮还可以用作动物饲料。

"The U. S. Renewable Fuels Standard calls for nearly 60% of U. S. ethanol to be produced from [non-food] feedstocks by 2022, " he said.

多尔说：“美国再生燃料标准要求，到2022年美国近60%的乙醇应由[非粮食]作物提炼。”

For a time, ethanol has become universal condemnation that led to one of the reasons the food crisis.

一时间，乙醇成了千夫所指的导致粮食危机的缘故之一。

The gas is going to be richer So in a distillation, where you put things up in the gas, more of the ethanol comes up.

这时气相更多也更容易挥发，所以在蒸馏中，物质变成气态，乙醇会更多地跑出来。

"Congress passed the ethanol mandate, and now restaurants are being hit at a time our economy can't afford it, " he said.

“国会通过了乙醇政策，现在快餐店在我们的经济负担不起的时期受到了冲击。”他说道。

For the moment, technological advances are supporting ethanol and biodiesel's place in the global fuel mix.

眼下，科技进步为乙醇和生物柴油在全球燃料结构中的地位提供了支持。

Cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass and wood chips was an example he gave, adding that the U.

他举用柳枝稷和刨花为原料生产的纤维素乙醇为例。

At the moment, that fuel is often ethanol.

当前，这种生成物一般是乙醇。

It may look like the ultimate symbol of a mid-life crisis but the bio-ethanol-powered racing machine is no toy.

这看起来可能很像中年危机的终极象征，但这部使用生物乙醇燃料的赛车可不是一个玩具。

So if cellulosic ethanol is to live up to its promise, researchers will have to find cheaper and more efficient enzymes.

如果纤维乙醇真能不负所望，科研人员就必须要找到更便宜有效的酶。

Wait. They have also known for a thousand years how to get that ethanol out of the formerly sugary liquid and into a more or less pure form.

他们还知道如何将乙醇从含糖液体提取出来，从而得到较为纯净的乙醇。

Trouble is, no one in the U. S. has been able to produce cellulosic ethanol in mass quantities at a cost that can compete with corn ethanol.

问题是，在美国没有人能够以可与玉米乙醇竞争的成本大量生产出纤维素乙醇。

But it's not easy to produce isobutanol with the help of microbes like the ones that ferment those sugars into ethanol.

但是，异丁醇并不能像乙醇那样可以由微生物发酵糖分轻易制得。

More importantly, ethanol yield of new process was also found to be a bit higher than that of conventional.

研究表明，采用无喷射新工艺，乙醇的产率会略高于传统工艺。

It will take a while for any other country to copy Brazil, where ethanol already accounts for 40% of the fuel used by cars.

对其他国家而言，模仿巴西的模式还需要一段时间。在巴西，乙醇已经占到了汽车燃料的40%。

Take oil prices, for example: these (and government subsidies) determine how much maize is planted for ethanol.

以油价为例，油价（和政府补助）决定了为生产燃料乙醇，须种植多少玉米。

At the moment, only a handful of factories around the world produce biofuel from cellulose. And that fuel is still ethanol.

现在，全世界只有少数几个工厂通过纤维素生产生物燃料，而且产品仍然是乙醇。

Municipal waste could supply at least half of that in the form of ethanol for motor vehicles.

用城市垃圾至少可以供应180亿加仑，用于机动车辆。