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RETECH 2009: Could SunSpuds break through America's ethanol limit?

At the RETECH 2009 conference in Las Vegas recently, I learned about an interesting crop during the "Advanced Conventional Biofuels" breakout session. Phil Madson, the president of KATZEN International, said that a plant called "Sunspuds" could provide the solution to America's ethanol production limit. Katzen said he believes that 6 billion gallons of ethanol a year is the upper limit of America's domestic corn ethanol production, and that every time we go above that limit there will be some sort of problem or dislocation that will hinder ... Read more →

Cellulosic ethanol could get a boost from a sea grub Sam Abuelsamid

As we know, breaking down long-chain cellulose molecules into individual sugar molecules is problematic on an industrial scale. In nature, of course, this happens all the time thanks to little ...

Corn ethanol or cellulosic ethanol? To Congress, the difference is sometimes irrelevant Sebastian Blanco

AutoblogGreen readers know about cellulosic ethanol (if you're new to the site, click here for previous posts on the subject) What you might not know is that Congress, a big friend of big ethanol, has ...

Mascoma and Tamarack Energy Partner on Cellulosic Ethanol; Focus on Forestry Waste Sam Abuelsamid

The real potential for ethanol lies not in the corn fields of the Nebraska and Iowa but in cellulose. The amount of sugar that can be converted to alcohol that is locked up in cellulosic biomass far ...

Honda and RITE develop new cellolosic ethanol technology Sebastian Blanco

Honda announced today that it, along with Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), has developed a new way to produce cellulosic ethanol. We're all pretty aware of the ...

Makin' ethanol from the old poplar tree 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Technically, as many of our readers know, you can make ethanol out of any plant material. But some plants (and part of plants) are easier to convert to the biofuel than others. Researchers at Purdue University think that the fast-growing poplar tree (it's harvestable in seven years, they say) could ...

Iowa State researchers are makin' ethanol the moldy way 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Cellulose ethanol is one step closer. Ethanol can now be somewhat easily made from corn fibers, thanks to a process that uses mold and was discovered at Iowa State and announced last week. The fibers, created when producer make corn syrup, are often turned into animal feed. If they The discovery ...

Mad Scientist Matt sees the "possible improvement" of cellulose ethanol over traditional 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

He calls himself the Mad Scientist Matt, but Matt Cramer is really a skeptical yet hopeful auto fanatic who is keeping an eye out for ethanol news. Like many others, Cramer knows that growing corn to make ethanol (actually, as he mentions on his blog, growing corn to make ethanol just from the ...


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