alt.energy.renewable

Fran wrote:
> 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.
>
> /articles/
>

That sounds all good, to me.