Sentences with phrase «cellulosic ethanol»

Renewable, non-polluting fuels are: electricity (when generated by a clean source), biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol (when these biofuels are generated using «waste» material or from crops grown in a sustainable manner).

Better Biofuels Through Bacteria, Part Two: Compost Heap Bacteria Basis for Cheaper Cellulosic Ethanol

Cheaper Cellulosic Ethanol The bacteria in compost heaps could help us create cheaper cellulosic ethanol, or plant - waste - to - energy conversion.

Here are the details: Science Daily reports that researchers from Guildford have developed a new strain of bacteria which can aid in the processing of cellulosic ethanol, making the procedure more efficient and less costly than traditional fermentation processes.

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....

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: biological, thermochemical, or thermocatalytic routes for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to advanced biofuels beyond cellulosic ethanol; microbial fuel cells for direct production of electricity from renewable carbon sources; hydrogen production from autotrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms; hydrocarbons and lipids from phototrophic or heterotrophic microorganisms.

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.

By deriving it from inedible plant matter such as switchgrass, wood chips, and wheat straw, the hope is that cellulosic ethanol could supplement our transportation fuels in a way that is more efficient and has fewer harmful impacts on the environment and food prices than corn - based ethanol.

Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency did just that last week, setting new quotas for 2012 that will require the nation's refiners to add 8.65 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol to America's fuel supplies.

In practical terms, cellulosic ethanol still faces significant challenges.

Cellulosic ethanol is intended to be an advanced alternative to corn - based ethanol.

Under the current law, refiners (and, indirectly, consumers) have to pay a fee for failing to blend cellulosic ethanol into existing fuel supplies.

But with cellulosic ethanol proving to be a complete dud, corn growners and ethanol producers are lobbying to redefine corn ethanol as «advanced.»

It mandated cellulosic ethanol quotas in 2010 and 2011, which failed abysmally, according to the EPA's own data.

Posted on 29 March 2013 in Bio-hydrocarbons, Biobutanol, Biodiesel, Biogasoline, Biomass, Cellulosic ethanol, Ethanol, Forecasts Permalink Comments (0)

Even cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass, which has been promoted by eco-activists and eco-investors as well as by President Bush as the fuel of the future, looks less green than oil - derived gasoline.

Patrick Barta, «Jatropha Plant Gains Steam in Global Race for Biofuels,» Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2007; «Shell Boosts Stake in Iogen Cellulosic Ethanol,» Reuters, 15 July 2008; FAO, State of Food and Agriculture 2008 (Rome: 2008), p. 47.

Posted on 29 November 2016 in Bio-hydrocarbons, Biogasoline, Biomass, Cellulosic ethanol, Ethanol, Fuels, Policy, Regulations Permalink Comments (3)

The decrease in enzyme cost brings the low end of cellulosic ethanol production cost below the high end of corn ethanol production cost.

The rationale for corn ethanol was to «prime the system» for cellulosic ethanol that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2012, the U.S. biofuel industry produced only 20,069 gallons of cellulosic ethanol, according to Climatewire.

I do not believe big oil has any fear of cellulosic ethanol.

That makes the arithmetic work, but unfortunately, there is no viable technology to produce cellulosic ethanol, and corn - based ethanol is hitting its limits.

The combined company will be the first within the cellulosic ethanol industry to possess integrated end - to - end capabilities in pre-treatment, novel enzyme development, fermentation, engineering, and project development.

Posted on 11 February 2015 in Biomass, Biotech, Cellulosic ethanol, Synthetic Biology Permalink Comments (0)

Former Secretary of State George Shultz and former CIA director R. James Woolsey, co-chairs of a dire - sounding organization called The Committee on the Present Danger, wrote in a policy paper last year: «A plug - in hybrid averaging 125 mpg, if its fuel tank contains 85 per cent cellulosic ethanol, would be obtaining about 500 mpg [of gasoline].

As our host states above, ethanol from starch (corn or wheat, as used in the EU) was supposed to be a pump primer for cellulosic ethanol, but has become an end in itself as an agricultural subsidy.

The true driver for this now is the oil companies knowing cellulosic ethanol is a significant business risk for them.

Posted on 03 June 2014 in Biomass, Biotech, Cellulosic ethanol, Fuels, Synthetic Biology Permalink Comments (2)

Enzyme - producer Novozymes and cellulosic ethanol company Lignol Energy Corporation signed a research and development agreement to make biofuel from wood chips and other forestry residues.

Diversa Corporation and Celunol Corp. have signed a definitive merger agreement to create a new leader in the emerging cellulosic ethanol industry.

Posted on 24 March 2009 in Biomass, Cellulosic ethanol, Enzymes, Fuels, Synthetic Biology Permalink Comments (0)

If current coal - fired generating technology could be converted to use carbonized bio-waste, I doubt cellulosic ethanol would be viable.

Jim, That would be the cellulosic ethanol which has been five years away from commercial reality for about 15 years now.

The government spent some money and put in place a cellulosic ethanol mandate, but there is still no economically viable way to make cellulosic ethanol.

Whereas early estimates — the ones that helped spur the cellulosic ethanol mandates — put the cost at $ 30 a ton, the actual costs are more like $ 80 to $ 130 a ton.

In his 2006 State of the Union message, President Bush made a pitch for cellulosic ethanol, stating, «Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years.»

NEMO will focus on novel enzymes for hydrolysis and novel microorganisms for cellulosic ethanol production to identify the most eco-efficient and economic process options for cellulosic ethanol.

The list of investors includes Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems, who has heavily endorsed cellulosic ethanol as key to the future of transport fuels in the United States (and has kicked up quite a lot of controversy in the blogosphere in the process [that's three seperate links]-RRB-.

A portion of the money is also earmarked for investment in promising corn and cellulosic ethanol technologies, a company spokesman said.

The RFS already requires the use of cellulosic ethanol.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $ 250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight.

Cellulosic ethanol proponents have pushed the idea of using farm waste as a way to boost biofuel production without impacting food crops, but such conversion may carry a hidden cost in areas with insufficient rainfall or lacking irrigation, warns a soil scientist from Washington State University.

Companies should make use of infrastructures in place where capital costs can be minimized in order to integrate a cellulosic ethanol industry into commercialization faster and more economically, Burke said.

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.

The cellulosic ethanol industry is still in its infancy, Burke said, equating it to the starch - based ethanol industry in 1980.

«The Toomey - Feinstein partial repeal would make the RFS even more burdensome for Americans because it will focus the mandate on costly phantom fuels like cellulosic ethanol.

Because, as I wrote in 2012, under the current law, refiners (and, indirectly, consumers) have to pay a fee for failing to blend cellulosic ethanol into existing fuel supplies.

A recent survey by investment firm ThinkEquity shows that cellulosic ethanol makers will likely miss federal targets by a weighty margin, at least in the near future.

When really pressed on why the USDA and the Obama administration continue to support corn based ethanol, they point to using it as helping support the fledgling cellulosic ethanol industry, which seems to always be just 5 years away from commercial viability.