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By: Iogen Ships Cellulosic Ethanol to Shell

Iogen Ships Cellulosic Ethanol to Shell — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:50:40 +0000

[...] biofuel maker Iogen might have backed away from building a cellulosic plant in the U.S., but the company says it has already started shipping the first part of a roughly [...]

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Solar Feeds Gadgets » Iogen Ships Cellulosic Ethanol to Shell — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:22:14 +0000

[...] biofuel maker Iogen might have backed away from building a cellulosic plant in the U.S., but the company says it has already started shipping the first part of a roughly [...]

By: Iogen Ships Cellulosic Ethanol to Shell « Earth2Tech

Iogen Ships Cellulosic Ethanol to Shell « Earth2Tech — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:45:57 +0000

[...] September 26th, 2008 at 7:45 am in Energy,Startups Canadian biofuel maker Iogen might have backed away from building that cellulosic plant in the U.S., but the company says it has already started shipping the first part of a roughly [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:30:49 +0000

I find it histerical that the one compnay that will be out of the ground wiyj a prvately funded plant AND a recipient of a DOE award is not even mentioned The company is BlueFire Ethanol.

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[...] Iogen Suspends U.S. Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Plans – Earth2TechThere are two cases of planned next-generation plants shutting down, an indication of how the smallest changes can throw off the economics of fuel production. [...]

By: Arturo Velez

Arturo Velez — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:20:03 +0000

Agave (the plant we use to produce tequila liquor) produces over five thousand gallons of distilled ethanol per hectare and one hundred and twenty five tonnes of biomass, on an annual basis (takes 6 years in the fields to harvest). The current cost of the agave feedstock needed to produce one gallon of ethanol is US$0.72 (seventy two cents). Agave thrives in semi-arid wasteland, needs no watering nor agrochemicals, in no food and produces 3X more sugars that sugar cane.
Feedstock production technology is ready, but we need financial help for industrial ethanol production technology research (it’s almost ready, we’ve been produicing tequila -an ethanol- for nearly three centuries) and a demo agave-to-ethanol plant.
Any sugestions, comments?
agaveproject2@gmail.com

By: Arturo Velez

Arturo Velez — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:16:19 +0000

Agave (the plant we use to produce tequila liquor) produces over five thousand gallons of distilled ethanol per hectare and one hundred and twenty five tonnes of biomass, on an annual basis (takes 6 years in the fields to harvest). The current cost of the agave feedstock needed to produce one gallon of ethanol is US$0.72 (seventy two cents). Agave thrives in semi-arid wasteland, needs no watering nor agrochemicals, in no food and produces 3X more sugars that sugar cane.
Feedstock production technology is ready, but we need financial help to develop the ethanol production technology.
Any sugestions, comments?
agaveproject2@gmail.com

By: Verenium Working on 10 Cellulosic Ethanol Sites « Earth2Tech

Verenium Working on 10 Cellulosic Ethanol Sites « Earth2Tech — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:02:08 +0000

[...] Posted June 6th, 2008 at 12:00 am in Startups Even though we heard about two companies (Iogen and Alico) canceling plans to build cellulosic ethanol plants in the U.S. this week, Verenium [...]

By: Eliezer Cadet

Eliezer Cadet — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:26:43 +0000

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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:36:59 +0000

[...] An Iogen spokesperson tells us that the company has “suspended” its cellulosic plant plans for Idaho to instead focus on its more advanced plant in Saskatchewan, Canada. [...]

By: Dr. No

Dr. No — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:28 +0000

Jeez, with government funding of up to $350 million, the thing does not fly. How is it going to fly without the governmental gravy train if it is supposed to compete with other biofuels in a COMMODITIES market. By definition in a COMMODITIES market, your ethanol is as good as mine, because what I buy is BTUs.

And yes, what would happen if oil would drop below $50, which is where Soros, Masters and the other experts see it realisticly once we get rid of Goldman, Morgan, ABN Amro and Lehman advising to buy commodities ETFs. Maybe then corn is cheap again, and the whole cleantech bubble just deflates.

Ah yes, maybe someone realized that you can't make cellulosic ethanol as cheap as you thought - if at all. Hasn't the paper industry been at digesting cellulose and hemi cellulose and lignin in their waste stream, since say 40 years? Those guys are not really poor or lack effort, still not too much of a result there. And yes, what would happen if we have the miracle process to turn cellulose into sugar, and it would get out, we'd turn out paper mountains into sugar and the woods would ... become sugar... the perfect world.

By: 11 Companies Racing to Build U.S. Cellulosic Ethanol Plants « Earth2Tech

11 Companies Racing to Build U.S. Cellulosic Ethanol Plants « Earth2Tech — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:30:44 +0000

[...] Update: An Iogen spokesperson says the company has “suspended” its plans to build a plant in Idaho, to focus on its Saskatchewan plant (we first read that news here). The Iogen spokesperson says the Idaho plant could be built in the future, but that the company has suspended focusing on that U.S. location and at this time is not actively pursuing that DOE funding. Our story in this news here. [...]