The corn and
ethanol industries already get federal help, before carbon capture money from the Department of Energy comes into play, he said.
Not exact matches
The technology used to convert
ethanol into butanol is called a catalyst — these are chemicals which can speed up and control a chemical reaction and are
already widely used in the petrochemical
industry.
Municipalities are
already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels
industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local
ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of
ethanol a year.
The
ethanol industry,
already reeling from a draft plan for cuts in the
ethanol mandate for this year, will now face more pressure as everyone from conservatives and environmental activists...