Tom Caracciolo

Are We at the Bottom of the Ethanol Barrel?

Article is much to do about nothing because corn is only a short term source of supply for ethanol. Cellulose ethanol uses only waste materials that we throw away. The first plant will be constructed nest to a land fill this year in Lancaster, California using only waste materials and as a residual produces its own energy source used to make the ethanol. Check things out with BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc.

Ethanol: Corn Hits New High, Verenium Wins Grant

BlueFire Ethanol Fuel (BFRE) will start construction of their cellulosic ethanol plant this coming April next to a land fill in California that will provide the material from which the ethanol will be produced. The facility will be like the cellulosic plant they have in operation in Izumi, Japan producing ethanol from cellulose since 2002. A by-product of their process is butanol that will provide 70% of the energy needed to produce the ethanol. This, plus making ethanol from material we throw away, is a win-win situation for every land fill in the U.S. The process is proven commercially viable.

Cellulosic Ethanol: The Next Biofuel Boom?

BlueFire Ethanol Ethanol Fuels, Inc. (BFRE) is on a roll now. They just completed a crucial step in the construction of its first cellulosic ethanol plant in the U.S. by completing vendor testing of the key pieces of equipment to convert a variety of biomass materials, including municipal wastes in land fills, into the simple sugars used in BlueFire Ethanol's commercially viable production process. They have the funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for its planned ethanol production facility using cellulosic wastes diverted from land fills in Southern California. The facility will produce approximately 17 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year from green waste, wood waste and other cellulosic urban wastes. How wonderful it will be to have a BlueFire Ethanol production facility near every urban waste land fill in the U.S. What a WIN - WIN situation!

Cramer: "Ethanol Is a Fuel That Doesn't Work"

What does it take for people to understand that ethanol from corn is only temporary. Ethanol from cellulose is already on its way in the U.S. Two cellulosic plants are starting construcion now next to landfills in the U.S. that will provide the cellulosic material needed to make the ethanol. BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. has already proven the commercially viable process to make ethanol out of our garbage. They have a plant in Izumi, Japan that has been doing it since the year 2002. They have the exclusive license for the process for the entire U.S. Their plan is to put a cellulosic ethanol plant next to every land in the U.S. It is a win - win situation.

Ethanol Going From Panacea to Pariah - WSJ

Not true....people have not waked up yet! If they were awake they would know that ethanol produced from food sources such as corn is only temporary. Ethanol produced from cellulos will be the primary replacement for the majority of fossil fuels or the next 20 or 30 years until hydrogen and electric vehicles are produced and available in quantities to completely replace it. Construction of cellulosic ethanol plants in the U.S. will be ongoing in 2008. Japan already has one and China is contructing one now. All from cellulos.