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Interesting Cellulosic Ethanol Article...
Progress is slow scaling up Cellulosic Ethanol.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/87/8717cover.html
Seems they are finding they are not economically viable without a LOT of government subsidies, feedstocks are hard to aquire, the "free" feedstocks are not free as transportation costs are huge and a couple process have to put more energy into the conversion to Ethanol than the fuel value of the Ethanol produced.
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Last edited by blaSSt; 05-07-2009 at 12:59 PM.
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