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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.
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> 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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