Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Biofuels GREAT for high performance cars!

Cellulosic ethanol needs to be in the mix of "clean fuels" our country needs. As long as waste agricultural materials are used (waste wood, corn husks etc.), we won't increase food prices.
clipped from domesticfuel.com

Listen to an interview with Tom Slunecka here:

Tom Slunecka at NAMA 08KL Process Design Group was the first company to get a small-scale cellulosic ethanol plant on-line using waste-wood material to produce about 1.5 million gallons of ethanol a year. The company is currently providing teams in the American LeMans Series with an 85 percent cellulosic ethanol racing fuel.

Slunecka explained that there are several different processes that can be used to convert biomass into biofuels. “Our process is a heat and mechanical pre-treatment process. There is a biochemical process, there is a syngas process, and then there are combinations of all the above,” he said. “There is no silver bullet. We’re gonna need them all to produce the amount of fuel that is needed.”

And that would be the amount of cellulosic ethanol required under the energy bill passed by Congress last year. “The Renewable Fuels Standard does require that we have over 21 billion gallons of renewable fuels created from biomass over the next ten years,”
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I am a consultant in the alternative fuels industry focusing on waste-to-fuel, cellulosic biomass and coal conversion technology.