This is bigger than it seems, I think.
Over on GM's FYI blog, check it out:
Quote:
The Next Generation of Ethanol
Press release: GM partners with Coskata to commercialize cellulosic ethanol
By Mary Beth Stanek
Director, Environment and Energy Policy and Commercialization
Ever since we started talking with Coskata Inc. seven months ago about partnering to help get their ethanol-making technology commercialized, I’ve been eager to hear what people would say when they heard some of the numbers around what Coskata says it can do:- Produce a gallon of ethanol for less than a dollar, half the production cost of making gasoline
- Use less than a third of the water it takes to make ethanol today – and 79 times less than it takes to prepare a single chicken
- Reduce by as much as 84 percent the CO2 emissions compared with gasoline
- Create nearly eight times as much energy created as used
And make ethanol from renewable sources like agricultural waste and anything that has carbon in it. Yes, that includes garbage that goes to landfills today.
The statistics and claims are amazing – and they are backed up by several well-respected analyses. They also knock down nearly every criticism of today’s ethanol. We acknowledge that some of those criticisms have merit, but some have been wildly exaggerated.
This is an exciting time for ethanol. The Coskata technology is ready today – no invention time needed – and their first commercial plant is expected to be up and producing 50 million to 100 million gallons of ethanol a year by the end of 2010 or early 2011.
Let us know what you think.
So not only do we have a new Renewable Fuels Standard that calls for 36 billion gallons of biofuels a year by 2022, we have in our partnership with Coskata a company that thinks it can account for a significant amount of that production through its partnership business model.
GM is not in the fuel business, and we’re not likely to be building any ethanol plants, but we are eager to see Coskata succeed.
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And anybody who's been on here for a while knows I'm a supporter of this type of Ethanol (it will save our V8's
), and I've been cruising the GM blogs for a while, and this is the
first and only Ethanol Related blog where the resposes have been positive. nothing bad can be said about this type of Ethanol;
85% reduction in C02, Nearly 8 to 1 energy return. Is made out of
garbage. (Anything that contains Carbon, which is....a lot of things...)
I'm so excited about this!