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Ethanol Ingredients: Garbage And Tyres?
By Mr Ethanol | February 19, 2008
Daily Times:
As the US consumes 140 billion gallons of gasoline annually, the thought of transitioning to corn-based ethanol is a daunting one. If enormous quantities of land, water, pesticides, and food resources are dedicated to transportation fuel, the ramifications will be significant. Some have even called ethanol from food to be a crime against humanity.
A new technology is being fine-tuned by Coskata that can have global impacts on biofuels, with potential sources of fuel ranging from garbage to agricultural waste to construction debris.
Coskata hit the ground running in January 2007, when they obtained strains of bacteria that converts gases into ethanol. Within months, they had built a laboratory in suburban Chicago, formed an alliance with General Motors, and announced a 40,000 gallon demonstration facility that will be operational within a year.
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