«When I first looked
into the ethanol industry, there was this promise that the cellulose technology was just a few years away,» Lunz recalled.
Not exact matches
Corn is increasingly being used to convert
into ethanol in the U.S. and in high demand in China where it it used to feed
into the meat
industry, and it has yet to be seen how this year's significant loss in harvest will impact grain use across the globe.
Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper
industry into 274,000 gallons of
ethanol.
The corn and
ethanol industries already get federal help, before carbon capture money from the Department of Energy comes
into play, he said.
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.
The conversion and commercialization of cellulose inputs
into fuel
ethanol is a significant technology obstacle to the growth of the
ethanol industry as a mainstream fuel.
The biofuel
industry is built around the idea that turning plants
into ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.
Plus I'm sure Dan McGrath will soon distill all his talents and intelligence
into a laser - like focus to fight the
Ethanol industry to it's much deserved demise.
It's now all but certain that the
ethanol tax credit will expire at the end of the year, and the
ethanol producers continue to claim credit for «giving it up» despite that it was obviously lost due to larger political considerations, and the fact that they lobbied initially for its extension and then eventually for a substitute which would have still funneled money
into their
industry.
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.
In the United States, the sugar - cane
industry has had little incentive to diversify
into ethanol production because import quotas support U.S. sugar prices far above world levels.
Naturally, this sent the US
ethanol industry into a fit; under many analyses corn
ethanol wouldn't fare too well.