alt.energy.renewable

Fran wrote:
> On Aug 15, 6:16 pm, jg wrote:
>> 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/BlueFire_Ethanol_Fuels__Inc__Files_f...
>> That sounds all good, to me.- Hide quoted text -
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> And when you consider that the total gasoline (aka petrol) usage .
> in the US is only about 80 billion gallons, that would represent %
> of their petrol consumption, which isn't at all a poor contribution.
>
> Then there's only the diesel, which accounts for another 60 billion
> gallons or so.
>
> I've no way of knowing whther the estimate of recoverable ethanol from
> waste is optimistic though.
>

It takes some sort of pressure - I could buy a hybrid Tojo and a solar
water heater now and probably eventually recover the cost, but I won't
because of the immediate cost unless I'm pushed. I'm sure it's the same
for governments.