Sentences with phrase «building cellulosic»
The Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to process waste wood from a lumber mill (PDA 1910).
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And finally on the renewable fuels side, it includes a $ 20 million program to build a cellulosic ethanol facility to create the first pilot - plant (we hope) that will produce ethanol from woody biomass as opposed to corn, and thereby drastically raising the energy balance of the ethanol.
If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.
No venture capitalist is going to build a cellulosic ethanol plant without a market for the ethanol, and a supply of wood chips, switchgrass, waste paper, corn stover....
Not exact matches
In Welsh's view, it's no coincidence that opposition to the U.S. renewable fuels policy has ramped up just as the three big cellulosic facilities — Project Liberty in Emmetsburg, Dupont's Nevada, Iowa plant and the Hugoton, Kan. facility built by Spanish multinational Abengoa — are to begin producing the fuel.
AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only plants.
Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.
Worthy research objectives include improved fuel cells, solar power, light - emitting diodes for lighting, intelligent buildings, carbon sequestration, advanced nuclear power, superconducting transmission lines, cellulosic biofuels, geothermal power, batteries and other energy storage technologies, super-efficient vehicles, and smart electricity grids.
The cellulosic ethanol movement got a much needed boost yesterday with the announcement that Valero, the nation's largest independent oil refiner, is investing $ 50 million into the Mascoma Corporation's plans to build a commercial sized wood - based biofuel refinery in Kinross, Michigan.
Together, we have built the first commercial - scale cellulosic biofuel plant in America.
BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BFRE), a company focused on changing the world's transportation fuel paradigm through the production of renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, announced that it has finalized and signed an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for its planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton, MS.. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ), for a fixed price of $ 296 million which includes an approximately $ 100 million biomass power plant as part of the facility.
Cellulosic biofuel plants are being built across the country, while biofuels researchers and entrepreneurs are creating new oil - saving opportunities every day.