Comments on: Another One Bites the Dust: Michigan Coal Plant Converts to Biomass

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:41:31 +0000

Anybody that still thinks ethanol from corn, sugar, or cellulose is good and sustainable has their head in the sand. Think about this for a second. If all of these acres used to grow this biomass were instead reforested and we continued to burn fossil fuels, we would have a reduction in carbon emissions rather than an increase like this would cause. To even put a dent in the use of coal with biomass we would have to chop down every forest in the U.S. to turn into farmland. Sound sustainable?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:41:00 +0000

By: Jim Spaulding

Jim Spaulding — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:04:29 +0000

All drawbacks aside, I say amen!

By: Jim Spaulding

Jim Spaulding — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:04:00 +0000

All drawbacks aside, I say amen!

By: Mike Goldman

Mike Goldman — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:03:43 +0000

BP)-Uses (VRNM)Proprietary Tech because =

Three to four times more cellulosic ethanol

from every acre of feedstock.combination

SPEECH BY PHILIP NEW, CEO-(BP)-Bio-Fuels

ETHANOL 2009 CONFERENCE, PARIS,

BIOFUELS_THE ROLE OF ADVANCED BIOFUELS_AND WHY

WE NEED TO GET THERE SOONER

Thank you for the opportunity to join the

discussion today on behalf of Biofuels.

We believe this is necessary if biofuels are to

fulfil their potential. Biofuels have a

great future in the long term.

Looking to cellulosic options, we have formed a

JV called Vercipia Biofuels with

Verenium Corporation,centred on the technology

Verenium has developed to release the sugars

locked up in the cell walls of the plant.

It uses speciality enzymes and proprietary

fermentation organisms to break solid

cellulose down to a six-carbon sugar

while five-carbon sugar is processed

separately as a liquid. This enables us to use

as much of the crop as possible.

We’re also using very tall, high yielding

grasses.

This combination to deliver

three to four times more cellulosic ethanol

from every acre of feedstock.

We are planning a commercial scale facility at

Highlands Country Florida where

we will produce 135m litres (36m gallons) a

year from crops which we expect to

yield 18-20 dry tonnes an acre.

We expect to break ground in 2010 and be

operating by 2012