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       Ethanol
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 10, 2013, 6:00 pm
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       Renewable Fuels Standard Saves You $0.50 – 1.50 per Gallon  :o
       According to a new analysis by renowned energy economist Philip
       K. Verleger – who has served as an energy advisor to both
       Republican and Democratic Presidents – American consumers are
       saving between $0.50 and $1.50 per gallon on gasoline as a
       direct result of increased ethanol production under the
       Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
       “The implication for world consumers is clear,” says Verleger.
       “The (Renewable Fuels Standard) has cut annual consumer
       expenditures in 2013 between $700 billion and $2.6 trillion.
       This translates to consumers paying between $0.50 and $1.50 per
       gallon less for gasoline.”
       The reasons for the savings involve the lower cost of domestic
       ethanol compared to gasoline, as well as the effect of increased
       ethanol use driving down overall demand for petroleum-based
       fuels. The Renewable Fuels Association (who, admittedly, are
       probably less objective than Mr. Verleger) claim, on their
       website, that “crude oil prices would be between $15 – 40 per
       barrel higher today without the substantial volumes of ethanol
       that have been added to petroleum inventories since enactment of
       the RFS.”
       Verleger’s report is just one of the many pieces of evidence
       that, despite big oil’s unethical anti-ethanol business
       practices and price-gouging, the Renewable Fuels Standard is
       working to improve America’s overall health, add new jobs in a
       tough economy, reduce food costs, and all with AAA support. At
       least, that’s what court after court has found in their in-depth
       analysis of the issues involved.
       What about you, dear readers? Are you fed up with big oil’s
       nonsense, yet, or are you still frothing at the mouth with
       anti-ethanol hysteria? I’m sure you’ll let us know, either way.
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       Re: Ethanol
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 10, 2013, 6:04 pm
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       Bipartisan Committee to Investigate Big Oil for Anti-ethanol
       Practices
       SNIPPET:
       In addition to lobbying against ethanol blends and blatant,
       GOP-sponsored lies about ethanol production raising global food
       costs, the NCGA says that gas station owners’ franchise
       agreements have been changed in order to force gas stations to
       remove E85 and E15.
       In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FTC Chairwoman
       Edith Ramirez, Klobuchar and Grassley wrote “We have heard
       allegations that the oil industry is mandating retailers to
       carry and sell premium (grades of) gasoline, thereby blocking
       the use of the current retail infrastructure to sell renewable
       fuels.  Station owners who wish to sell renewable fuel would
       bear the cost and logistical burden of having to install
       additional infrastructure to do so.”
       Every once in a while, these politicians get something right!
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       Re: Ethanol
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 10, 2013, 6:12 pm
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       Not So Fast, Big Oil: the AAA is NOT Against Ethanol or E15
       SNIPPET:
       In an official statement released this past week, the AAA spoke
       out against the American Petroleum Institute (API) ads, stating
       that “this commercial is the latest in a series of
       communications on social media and elsewhere which portray AAA
       as being ‘anti-ethanol’. This is not the case … AAA remains a
       strong supporter of the development and use of alternative fuels
       such as ethanol. The auto club believes ethanol fuels provide
       motorists with a choice at the pump that promotes U.S. energy
       independence, supports American and South Dakotan jobs, and can
       save the consumer money.”
       The AAA is specifically mentioning ads and rhetoric
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       that are part of the API’s latest campaign to reduce the role
       of ethanol as an available alternative fuel, and is calling for
       API to have ads and articles mentioning the AAA in an
       anti-ethanol context taken down immediately.
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       Re: Ethanol
   DIR By: Surly1
       Date: October 10, 2013, 6:40 pm
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       Reading this with interest.
       My first, uninformed take was that making ethanol from corn was
       inefficient (compared to sugar crops) and was a payoff to ADM
       and other agribusinesses. As a consumer, it screws up two stroke
       engines and decreases octane, or so I've been told.
       Now I don't know what to believe. It takes no leap of faith to
       believe that the oil companies would want to quash ANY
       competition.
       WHAT do YOU make of it? I would trust your judgement as the most
       informed mind I know on these matters.
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       Re: Ethanol
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 10, 2013, 6:46 pm
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       Op-Ed: Big Oil Tells More Lies About Ethanol, Only Idiots
       Believe Them
       SNIPPET:
       In a move that should surprise no-one, the whining cry-baby
       rich-boys at Big Oil are butt-hurt over the latest federal court
       ruling that upholds the EPA’s E15 mandate. In a legal brief
       filed with the US Supreme Court, the American Petroleum
       Institute – a powerful, well-funded lobbyist group that
       represents more than 500 oil and natural gas companies –
       insisted that transportation fuels containing 15 percent ethanol
       (E15) could damage cars and trucks.
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       Should we believe them?
       Obviously, the answer is a resounding “Haha! F**k [I]no[/I] we
       should not!”
       Let’s get one thing clear: the oil industry does not give one
       fat rat’s ass about the health, safety, future, or security of
       you, me, or anyone else.[/I]
       The horrible people involved in the oil industry have proven,
       again and again – from Washington DC to Canada to Saudi Arabia
       to the Mississippi Gulf – that lining their own pockets with
       cash is more important to them than the your continued health or
       your children’s clean drinking water. Still, that hasn’t stopped
       them from faking a concern for your safety.
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       Here's a small anecdote from my days as an air taxi pilot to
       help you understand how water contamination and consequent
       damage to your engine is far more likely with gasoline than
       ethanol.
       I flew light twin aircraft for a number of years. Unfortunately,
       to this day the gasoline on ICE powered aircraft is the really
       bad stuff with tetra-ethyl lead (and you thought it was banned
       from use, didn't you?). Of course they could run these aircraft
       engines on ethanol but apparently big oil is exerting influence
       there too. Remember that if you are on an approach path to a
       busy general aviation airport, you are getting showered with
       lead poisons. It's legal.
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       But getting back to my flying experience and water contamination
       causing corrosion or faulty engine performance, let me explain
       what big oil doesn't want to explain to you.
       As a pilot you are concerned with water in your fuel. All pilots
       are trained to fill the tanks on their aircraft when they finish
       flying that day. Why? Because any air in those tanks contains a
       certain amount of water vapor. When the aircraft tank cools at
       night, water vapor inside a half filled tank will condense into
       the gasoline.
       Gasoline and water do not mix. Water is heavier and always sinks
       to the lowest part of the tank which just happens to be where
       the fuel line to the engine is located. As an air taxi pilot,
       you don't own the aircraft and cannot tell if the tanks were
       topped off the day before until you check. If you are making the
       first flight on an aircraft on a given day and you find
       partially filled fuel tanks, that's a danger sign.
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       I would carry a fuel contamination tester (see above) for each
       preflight. The aircraft fuel tanks have sump drains that are
       just a hair lower than the fuel line location. You open the sump
       and take a sample. If you don't see water in the bottom, you are
       good to go. If you do find water, you keep draining the sump
       until there is no evidence of water.
       As a flight instructor, I would put some spit in the gasoline to
       show my students how easy it is to tell if you have water
       contamination. The spit will turn into a shiny bead and sink to
       the bottom of the sample. In other words, if you run gasoline in
       your tank and don't fill it up each night ([i][color=blue]nobody
       that owns an ICE car does, do they?), you have water in your
       fuel guaranteed![/color]
       The irony of this fossil fuel founded disinformation about
       ethanol is that ethanol, unlike gasoline, DOES mix quite well
       with water! It does NOT separate out. How many times have you
       seen water in your whisky bottle? You aren't drinking anhydrous
       200 proof are you? Of course not! Humans can't handle those
       levels. You probably have between 80 and 130 proof hard liquor
       ethanol and the rest is WATER (80 proof = 40% ethanol and 60%
       water).
       So boys and girls, if you have ethanol in your fuel tank, you
       have LESS chance of water corrosion than with gasoline in an
       inverse proportion to the ethanol percentage. The greater
       percentage of ethanol in your fuel, the less chance of corrosion
       in your tank.
       Because your tank was designed for gasoline, you are ALREADY
       home free for ethanol. IOW, a tank for ethanol does NOT require
       the same level of corrosion resistance as a tank designed for
       gasoline.
       Why? Because water condensation from cooled air inside your fuel
       tank will mix freely with the alcohol molecules in a state of
       equilibrium and will NOT sink to the bottom.
       However, if gasoline is what is in your tank, condensed water
       will sink right to the bottom of your tank and be positioned for
       hours to DAYS on that bottom ready to aid corrosion when it
       encounters a bit of oxygen from the air swishing around your
       tank. You can put that in the next fossil fueler's pipe and make
       them smoke it the next time you hear some lies about ethanol
       caused water corrosion.
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       Re: Ethanol
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 10, 2013, 7:53 pm
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       Surly,
       For two stroke engines, placing a small round piece of metal in
       the cylinder head raises the compression ratio so they can run
       efficiently. You do NOT have to do this. It is simply done to
       get more engine efficiency per amount of ethanol gallon. Alcohol
       does not damage two stroke engines at all. The only problem is
       that, when it is cold, they are a bit harder to start. That's
       just an engineering issue that can be gotten around. More on
       ethanol and the ICE below.
       Surly said, "WHAT do YOU make of it? I would trust your
       judgement as the most informed mind I know on these matters.".
       I hope the last comment I made cleared some of the doubts from
       your mind about ethanol. I feel duckweed ethanol is far more
       cost effective than corn but nevertheless, even corn has always
       been a better deal than gasoline when the environmental costs
       are added. Sugar cane ethanol is 8 times more cost efficient
       than corn. That's why Brazil is doing so well with it.
       As you know from my writings, ethanol is the historical enemy
       number one of Big Oil. Rockefeller managed to put the kibosh on
       it with Prohibition but ethanol is back with a vengeance now.
       Another irony of all this disinformation from the fossil fuelers
       is that everything they say about increased engine and fuel tank
       corrosion, inefficiency and wear actually applies to GASOLINE!
       It's absolutely Orwellian in its mind boggling duplicity.
       Gasoline isn't called by one chemical name because it is a
       witches brew of VOCs (volatile organic compounds some of which
       are carcinogenic) and asphaltenes (heavier hydrocarbons with
       sulphur and heavy metal contaminants). Gasoline is a refinery
       WASTE product. It's a catch all at the tail end of the process.
       There is NO WAY all these hydrocarbons with different kindling
       temperatures and energies of activation for combustion are going
       to burn evenly in an engine. Aircraft ICE manufacturers have
       always been aware of this fact. That is why aircraft ICEs have
       TWO spark plugs in each cylinder (to make sure the burn is
       thorough and as even as possible to avoid loss of power, engine
       failure or temporary outage). When all these hydrocarbons
       combust, a tremendous amount of waste heat goes to making carbon
       bucky balls called soot (this is lost energy and you get no
       mechanical energy from it - it increases  cylinder wear through
       abrasion and makes your engine hot as hell so they have to
       design adequate cooling systems - even so, the high thermal
       stresses increase engine wear).
       With ethanol, you can touch the engine manifold with your hand
       or the muffler on a your car or motorcycle without getting
       burned (Consider what that means to an engineer designing the
       cooling system for an ethanol burning engine!). Ethanol burns
       evenly because it is just ONE chemical compound, not a host of
       them. It also produces no soot. Consequently, there is very
       little heat waste. The engine runs more efficiently and, every
       bit as important, cooler. From an engineering standpoint, the
       alloys used in an ICE are over engineered if you burn ethanol
       instead of gasoline because the engine will never suffer the
       same thermal stress. This means less wear and more longevity for
       all moving parts.
       If an engine is designed for ethanol, it can be lighter and
       cheaper to make because the alloys do not have to deal with such
       high temperatures.
       If you haven't read my two part behemoth on duckweed and
       ethanol, I recommend you wade through it at your leisure. We
       have been conned big time.  >:(
       
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       The bullshit about crops being used for ethanol taking away from
       food crops is disinformation. Less than 3% of the corn grown in
       the US is for human food. True, a lot of it is for animal feed
       so you might say that is indirectly for human use and making
       ethanol takes some food off the table but it would be a LIE.
       Why? Because the amount of corn grown for ethanol is still
       peanuts compared with corn for animal feed and high fructose
       corn syrup. And no, that corn syrup is NOT going to make
       ethanol; it's going to fuck up the diet of Americans. So ignore
       the disinformation crocodile tears of the fossil fuel industry
       about biofuels being a danger to the world food supply.
       --- Quote ---
       > In 2005, the U.S. produced 42 percent of the world’s corn.
       Over 50 percent of the U.S. crop is produced in Iowa, Minnesota,
       Nebraska or Illinois. Other states in which corn is grown
       include Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, South Dakota,
       Wisconsin and Missouri.  In 2005, over 58 percent of the U.S.
       corn crop was used for feed. The remaining U.S. crop was split
       between exports (25 percent) and food, seed or industrial uses
       such as ethanol production (17 percent).
       >
       > Other major corn producing countries include China, Brazil,
       Mexico and the 25 countries that make up the European Union.
       >
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       Over 50% of our corn is grown in ONE (correction  :-[) about
       THREE STATES and fossil fuelers are wailing and moaning about
       taking food out of the human population's mouths??? Can you say
       DISINGENUOUS?
       In the videos in the duckweed article, permaculturist David
       Blume, in the ethanol business since the 1980s, tells the real
       story of how big oil has manipulated the message.
       In his web site he busts several negative myths about ethanol.
       Here's one:
       Myth #2: There Isn’t Enough Land to Grow Crops for Both Food and
       Fuel!
       According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. has
       434,164,946 acres of “cropland”—land that is able to be worked
       in an industrial fashion (monoculture).
       This is the prime, level, and generally deep agricultural soil.
       In addition to cropland, the U.S. has 939,279,056 acres of
       “farmland.”
       This land is also good for agriculture, but it’s not as level
       and the soil not as deep.
       Additionally, there is a vast amount of acreage—swamps, arid or
       sloped land, even rivers, oceans, and ponds—that the USDA
       doesn’t count as cropland or farmland, but which is still
       suitable for growing specialized energy crops.
       Of its nearly half a billion acres of prime cropland, the U.S.
       uses only 72.1 million acres for corn in an average year.  The
       land used for corn takes up only 16.6% of our prime cropland,
       and only 7.45% of our total agricultural land.
       Even if, for alcohol production, we used only what the USDA
       considers prime flat cropland, we would still have to produce
       only 368.5 gallons of alcohol per acre to meet 100% of the
       demand for transportation fuel at today’s levels.  Corn could
       easily produce this level—and a wide variety of standard crops
       yield up to triple this. Plus, of course, the potential alcohol
       production from cellulose could dwarf all other crops.
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       Re: Ethanol
   DIR By: Surly1
       Date: October 10, 2013, 8:25 pm
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       Jesus. That was prretty damned comprehensive.
       And FWIW, I did read your duckweed epic poem, or most of it.
       Very convincing...
       I hope you will continue to post this stuff up inside DD. It
       spreads some light and needed optimism in dark corners. As
       someone who writes a weekly diatribe titled "This Week in Doom,"
       looking at the wreckage we are making of our world is pretty
       depressing. We continue to need some light--
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       Ethanol from high-yielding energy crop grown on marginal land
       (NOT FOOD CROPS)
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 11, 2013, 4:51 pm
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       75M-Liter Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Opens in Italy
       10/09/2013
       Clean Edge News
       Beta Renewables, a global leader in cellulosic biofuels and part
       of the Mossi Ghisolfi Group, and Novozymes, the world’s largest
       producer of industrial enzymes, today marked the official
       opening in Northern Italy of the world’s largest advanced
       biofuels facility. Situated in fields outside the city of
       Crescentino, it is the first plant in the world to be designed
       and built to produce bioethanol from agricultural residues and
       energy crops at commercial scale using enzymatic conversion.
       “The advanced biofuels market presents transformational
       economic, environmental and social opportunities, and with the
       opening, we pave the way for a green revolution in the chemical
       sector,” says Beta Renewables’ Chairman and CEO, Guido Ghisolfi.
       “We will continue to commercially expand Beta Renewables’ core
       technology throughout the world, and we are very confident at
       this stage given the demand we see around the globe.”
       “The opening today presents a leap forward and is truly the
       beginning of a new era for advanced biofuels,” says Peder Holk
       Nielsen, CEO of Novozymes. “Here, at this plant, enabled by
       Novozymes’ enzymatic technology, we will turn agricultural waste
       into millions of liters of low-emission green fuel, proving that
       cellulosic ethanol is no longer a distant dream. It is here, it
       is happening, and it is ready for large-scale
       commercialization.”
       The two companies formed a strategic partnership in October
       2012, making Novozymes the preferred enzyme supplier for Beta
       Renewables’ current and future cellulosic biofuel projects.
       The plant uses wheat straw, rice straw and arundo donax, a
       high-yielding energy crop grown on marginal land. Lignin, a
       polymer extracted from biomass during the ethanol production
       process, is used at an attached power plant, which generates
       enough power to meet the facility’s energy needs, with any
       excess green electricity sold to the local grid.
       
       At the inauguration, Guido Ghisolfi and Peder Holk Nielsen were
       joined on the ground for the celebrations by Italy’s Minister
       for Economic Development, Flavio Zanonato, and representatives
       from the European Commission, as well as more than 500 global
       stakeholders.
       
       Stable policy conditions required
       With the technology ready at commercial scale, it will be vital
       to create stable and conducive policy conditions worldwide, to
       harvest better the vast opportunities in cellulosic ethanol and
       advanced biofuels.
       
       “Policy makers now need to send clear signals to encourage the
       necessary investments in advanced biofuels,” says Peder Holk
       Nielsen. “Stable and predictable blending mandates, incentives
       for the collection of agricultural residues, and investment
       support for the first large-scale plants will help move the
       world substantially in terms of reducing greenhouse gasses,
       stimulating economies, and providing energy security. Continued
       reliance on fossil fuels is not viable.”
       
       A recent study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance concludes that
       transforming agricultural residues into advanced biofuels could
       create millions of jobs worldwide, economic growth, reduction of
       greenhouse gas emissions, and energy security by 2030.
       Government support is, however, vital to accelerate the
       deployment of next-generation biorefineries.
       
       Cost-competitive technology ready
       Beta Renewables’ PROESA™ engineering and production technology
       alongside Novozymes’ Cellic® enzymes represent the most
       cost-competitive advanced biofuels platform in existence today.
       More than $200 million has been invested in research and
       development of the technology used to produce cellulosic ethanol
       at the Crescentino facility, since 2011.
       
       “Investors interested in cellulosic ethanol often ask when the
       technology will be ready at commercial scale,” says Guido
       Ghisolfi. “PROESA enables customers to produce advanced biofuel
       at a cost-competitive price relative to conventional biofuels –
       at large-scale and today. Our complete offering makes cellulosic
       biofuel projects bankable and replicable. With the world’s first
       commercial plant up and running here in northern Italy, I very
       much look forward to an exciting journey of establishing an
       entirely new, and very promising, industry.”
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       [move]Cellulosic ethanol, rather than plant starch/sugar food
       crop ethanol has an energy potential MULTIPLE times the fossil
       fuels in use today WITHOUT TOUCHING A SINGLE ACRE OF FOOD CROP
       LAND! This is a GIANT NAIL in the fossil fuel coffin.
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       Brazil is doing just fine with ZERO gasoline E100 HYDROUS
       Ethanol
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 15, 2013, 9:38 pm
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       Ethanol Fuel Mixes. Brazil's use of hydrous ethanol (much
       cheaper to make) proves the only reason we don't have it is
       because of big oil scaremongering about ethanol water content.
       The REAL risk is NOT water in ethanol (which mixes freely with
       water) but with water in GASOLINE (which doesn't mix AT ALL with
       water - water in a tank filled with gasoline goes straight to
       the bottom of the tank). This does NOT happen with ethanol.
       Two part article on ethanol as the best fuel for internal
       combustion engines, how to make it and the promise of duckweed
       to make enough to totally replace gasoline WITHOUT touching good
       crop land.
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       Abengoa Tests Its Mettle in US Market
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: October 29, 2013, 7:15 pm
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       Ethanol Plants in the USA (too bad it's mostly from corn and not
       duckweed   :()
       Abengoa Tests Its Mettle in US Market
       “The U.S. market has become the most important market for the
       company.”
       Breaking Energy, Conway Irwin
       October 25, 2013
       
       Spanish technology firm Abengoa, which operates renewables
       projects worldwide, has listed its shares on the Nasdaq stock
       exchange (ABGB) as part of an effort to raise its profile in the
       U.S.
       Abengoa has singled out the U.S. as a priority market, both for
       fundraising and for the ongoing growth of its business. “The
       U.S. market has become the most important market for the
       company,” according to chief executive Manuel Sanchez Ortega.
       “Today it represents the top geography in terms of revenues.
       One-third of our business is in the U.S.”
       The company is seeking to capitalize on the reputation it has
       built in the country through major projects such as its
       280-megawatt Solana solar thermal facility and a
       25-million-gallon-per-year bioethanol facility in Hugoton,
       Kansas. “After more than fifteen years working in the U.S. on
       various projects, we have built a strong reputation and
       credibility through the work that we have done for our
       customers,” Ortega said.
       “For a technology company, it is really key to perform in the
       most competitive market. If I’m good in Europe, I know I’m good.
       If I’m good in Latin America, I know I’m good. If I can be good
       in the U.S., it means that the company is really good. It
       enhances the credibility of the company,” said Ortega.
       The U.S. presents a welcoming market for a number of reasons,
       including the size and scope of its financial sector. Part of
       Abengoa’s strategy in listing in the U.S. is to use the proceeds
       to reduce leverage and enhance its credit rating. That, along
       with the company’s track record, should help it to attract
       capital from a broader range of investors at lower cost.
       “Financing is a challenging activity everywhere these days,”
       said Ortega. “We haven’t dropped a single project because of not
       finding financing, but financing takes longer now than it used
       to.”
       “People lending money today for projects are more cautious about
       analyzing everything in the project, and to a point, that’s good
       for us. Having our technology at commercial scale, having a
       track record of successful execution of almost $20 billion in
       projects over the last five years is something that financial
       institutions take into consideration when they consider new
       projects,” Ortega said.
       The U.S. also has a system of incentives that supports the
       growth of two of Abengoa’s major U.S. products: solar thermal
       energy and cellulosic biofuels.
       The state of California recently passed an energy storage
       mandate that Solana can meet without modification of the
       facility. “It’s great news, because the main difference of
       thermal solar energy is the capacity that you have to store that
       energy,” Ortega said. Solar thermal facilities allow for the
       storage of energy as heat, “so you can deliver the heat whenever
       you want to turn water to steam to produce electricity.”
       And its Hugoton bioethanol plant, due onstream late this year or
       in early 2014, will be selling cellulosic biofuels into a market
       whose growth is all but guaranteed by rising volume requirements
       under the Renewable Fuel Standard,   though volumes were
       recently amended to reflect the actual rate of development of
       the cellulosic biofuel industry. “The RFS is setting a clear
       framework that is allowing people to scale investment,” Ortega
       said.
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       Construction site in Hugoton, Kansas of New Ethanol Biorefinery
       •The biorefinery, with a capacity of about 95 million liters (25
       million gallons) year, will be online and is expected to reach
       full production by the end of 2013 or early 2014.
       •The refinery (which will be run by 100% biomass) will have an
       output of about 95 million liters of ethanol per year, derived
       from nearly 350,000 tons of biomass.
       •The plant will use approximately 1,100 dry tons of biomass per
       day in the ethanol production process.
       •The combustion of waste from this process will be carried out
       together with 300 tons per day of dry biomass material and
       untreated (raw) material to produce 18 megawatts of electricity.
       This power will allow all the facilities the benefit of low
       additional power demand and will also be environmentally
       friendly.
       “A clear and stable framework, in which people are incentivized
       to invest in technology and innovation, over five to ten years,
       is what investment requires. [b]Because they know that there is
       going to be a market where they can get a return,” Ortega said.
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       [move][b] Now you know why the Koch brothers and ALEC work
       OVERTIME to ELIMINATE ALL [i]LONG TERM[/I] incentives for
       Renewable Energy Investment in every
       state.
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       They
       are trying to prevent Renewable Energy from getting the same
       LONG TERM subsidy and tax break boost that fossil fuels have had
       for OVER A CENTURY! Don't let them get away with it!
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