Coskata pilot plant waiting for government aid to move forward
Coskata CEO Bill Roe in happier times, January 2008
It hasn't been an easy 14 months for Coskata. The cellulosic ethanol start-up made a big splash in January 2008 with the announcement of a partnership with GM. Since then, the company did move forward with its plans to build cellulosic ethanol demonstration plants and raised more money, but there was no way it could be immunized from the overall economic slump. Earth2Tech takes a look at Coskata's current reality and finds that the company CEO Bill Roe recently told attendees at the Wall Street Journal Eco:nomics conference that Coskata's first commercial-scale plant is on hold unless the Department of Energy comes through with a loan guarantee. The good news is that the DOE is indeed moving quickly on handing out money, so perhaps the promise of $1 gallons of ethanol from almost anything will some day be kept.
[Source: Earth2Tech]
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Carney 9:12AM (3/12/2009)
Cellulosic ethanol comes very close to being pointless. In the current context, it most certainly is a distraction and regardless of anyone's intentions serves effectively as an excuse to delay widespread adoption of flex fuel cars and alcohol fuel.
What is too often ignored or not known is that ALREADY, today, with no further research, we can make alcohol fuel from ANY BIOMASS without exception, including woody and fibrous material. That fuel is METHANOL, with an M.
Fully flex fueled vehicles can easily run on methanol, ethanol, or gasoline, or any mix of them.
So why the constant focus on cellulosic ethanol?
1. The corn ethanol industry has succeeded in drowning out methanol from public attention, despite flex fuel cars having been originally intended to run only on methanol or gasoline. Now, few even know about it.
2. The food vs. fuel myth. Compounding myth no. 1 (the only alcohol fuel is ethanol), there is a second myth, that standard ethanol, made from the starchy and sugary portions of plants, threatens to raise food prices, reduce food availability, and cause starvation. That's quite simply false.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/in-defense-of-biofuels
[Yesterday I accidentally posted the above in the comments section for the original article from Jan 08]
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Jack 1:50PM (3/15/2009)
Cellulosic ethanol is not the answer nether is methanol. Now unlike what is being said in the media there is an answer that is ready for production right now. The next generation bio-fuel is ready for full deployment. Green Gas is the first true next generation bio-fuel. It is at a more advanced stage of development than any other alternative fuel. It solves the feed stock, food chain and logistics problems of ethanol and can be delivered at a competitive price compared to fossil fuel. Green gasoline
Require fewer production step vs. petroleum
Is NOT made from Ethanol
Require and contain no lead
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Will mix with petroleum products with no adverse affects
Can be made from any bio source( algae, land fill, sugarcane, miscanthus,
sugar beet, sorghum, etc.
Emits no C02 and less than 76% of the emissions that petroleum currently
causes
Green gasoline has a zero cabin foot print and it makes all preceding fuels obsolete.
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