Tom Caracciolo

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!