A handful of larger companies are working diligently toward uprooting cellulose conversion technologies from the labs and transplanting them to pilot-scale facilities. Integrating and further refining cellulose process technologies within existing ethanol plants is likely to be the irresistible medium that's already incubating the future of celllulosic ethanol.
By Kory Wallen
March 01, 2006
Tucked within the 1,700 pages of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 are a number of provisions intended to help jumpstart the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol in the United States. Considering the long-term outlook for oil prices, some experts believe biomass will soon fill petroleum's proverbial shoes. Can legislation get cellulose-to-ethanol on its feet?
By BBI Staff Report
March 01, 2006
When the most powerful man in America says cellulosic ethanol is going to be commercialized within six years, the industry he's talking to listens up. Now, as the nation's energy department unveils a 30-year outlook on oil that makes biomass utilization a long-term energy option with teeth, EPM offers industry reactions to the speech that made a nation start thinking about cellulose.
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