2.7.2008 7:52 AM
$1 A Gallon Cellulosic Ethanol Plant to Be Built
Next-Generation Renewable Fuel Promises Less Pollution
A new cellulosic ethanol plant that promises to produce renewable biofuel for less than $1 a gallon has a new partner.
ICM, a Kansas-based ethanol plant design, engineering and support firm, has a new agreement with Illinois-based Coskata, which made headlines when it announced it could produce next-generation ethanol made from waste, plant materials or other biomass, rather than corn, at a fraction of the cost, and with a fraction of the pollution and political fallout. The story was reported by the Wichita Eagle. Corn-based ethanol is widely criticized because it produces little more energy than it takes to produce (not so with this new cellulosic ethanol, according to the companies involved) and the fertilizer used to grow more corn has fouled the Mississippi Valley, leading to to a near-record "dead zone" where the excess nutrients have washed out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Through the partnership, the companies expect to speed up the process so that the cheap, renewable biofuel can get to the pump by 2010.
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