alt.energy.renewable

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Files for Construction Permits for California's
First Cellulose to Ethanol Production Plant

Irvine, CA--BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (OTCBB: BFRE) filed for its
permits with Los Angeles County for California's first cellulose to
ethanol production facility in June.

The location for this facility is near Lancaster, California in
northern Los Angeles County. The production facility will be located
adjacent to the Lancaster landfill.

The facility will use green & wood waste streams as its feedstock and
will produce approximately million gallons of cellulosic ethanol
per year as well as serve as a future demonstration facility for
BlueFire's Bio-Butanol production process

To reduce the environmental footprint to an absolute minimum, the
facility will use recycled water and will meet roughly 70% of its
total energy needs by utilizing the energy stored in lignin, a process
co-product.


This plant will be the platform from which system modules will be
factory constructed for rapid deployment of all other planned
facilities.


Through this facility, BlueFire will provide the California fuel
market with its first home-grown fuels from existing cellulosic
resources.

Thanks to progressive federal legislation, fuel blenders can blend
cellulosic ethanol at a to 1 credit over traditional ethanol to
meet their renewable fuel compliance requirements thereby providing
even more incentive for the industry to lead the way in reform.

BlueFire estimates that of the 1 billion tons of recoverable waste in
the US, over 70 billion gallons of fuel grade ethanol can be
produced.

For Southern California, the potential exists to convert these waste
streams into several hundred million gallons of ethanol fuel per year.

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