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Old 05-07-2009, 10:18 AM   #1
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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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