Last February, the Department of Energy selected sixcompanies to receive funding towards
building ethanol plants — scheduled to beoperational within the next three years — that will utilize new technology forprocessing corn stover as well as other types of agricultural waste.
As long as the economics are there, he says, «Someone will
build an ethanol plant and turn corn into fuel and make a bunch of money.»
That C - BT project was flowing water a long time before anyone even thought about
building an ethanol plant in NE Colorado.
And a venture capitalist will
build an ethanol plant with readily available corn, and a federal gasahol mandate.
corn producing states
build ethanol plants and capture a revenue stream and plant jobs before shipping the EtOH to the West; or, 2.)
Not exact matches
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.
«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm
building what may be the first U.S.
plant to make next - generation
ethanol commercially.
One example isPanda
Ethanol, which is
building the largest biomass
plant in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will use the waste of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production of approximately 115 million gallons ofethanol per year.
The biofuel industry is
built around the idea that turning
plants into
ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.
First, they should brainstorm ideas for how to
build a biofuels refinery
plant that would turn biomassinto
ethanol.
Among their suggestions were the following: expand conservation tillage to 100 percent of cropland, stop all deforestation, drive two billion cars on
ethanol, increase wind power 80-fold to make hydrogen for cars, replace 1,400 large coal - fired power
plants with gas - fired ones, and cut electricity use in
buildings by 25 percent.
The Standard Alcohol Company
built a cellulosic
ethanol plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to process waste wood from a lumber mill (PDA 1910).
The problem with forcing «all» vehicles to use x %
ethanol and «mandating» cellulose
ethanol before a single
plant was
built.
New Zealand - based Lanzatech, the developer of gas fermentation technology for producing
ethanol and high value chemicals (e.g.: MEK, Butadiene) from industrial waste gases, has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the largest coal producers in China, Henan Coal and Chemical Industrial Corporation, to
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BP said it would soon
build a demonstration
plant in Florida for a type of
ethanol made from
plant material; Shell has worked with several firms since 2002 to develop
ethanol from nonfood crops.
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.
So some of the cellulose
ethanol plants actually
built and functional can't afford to go into production.
Russia, the world's second - largest oil producer and exporter, will start
building its first major
ethanol plant in 2007, according to a regional official speaking at Russia's first Fuel Bioethanol conference in Moscow.
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.
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....
Now, on the site of an old cabbage farm 9 miles from Medina, New York Energy is
building an 87 million dollar
ethanol plant to turn 20 million bushels of corn into 50 million gallons of fuel.
By the way, what about the
plants which will need to be
built to process the grass into
ethanol?