Florida’s Newest Ethanol Plant Makes Energy from Garbage - Cleantechnica
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/14/floridas-newest-ethanol-plant-makes-energy-from-garbage/
A new ethanol production plant is set to open in Florida this month that promise of a new industry producing fuel out of everything from grass to garbage. The news is a milestone for the renewable fuels and ethanol industries, which have been dogged by bogus, GOP-backed claims that the current methods of making fuel from corn and sugar raises food prices.
Despite contradictory assertions from meat producers that ethanol production isnt a factor in rising food prices and an ever-widening price gap between ethanol and federally-subsidized gasoline, however, the idea has stuck in most peoples minds. INEOS Bios new Florida plant hopes to sidestep those concerns and cash in on the growing consumer demand for ethanol at home and abroad.
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The INEOS plant heats organic materials in collected organic waste materials (food, yard clippings, etc.) which produces a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Bacteria feed on the heated waste to ferment the gas and create ethanol. The company says it intends to begin selling ethanol to US fuel companies and plans to release its first shipments later this month. Everything weve done validates our views of the technology, Williams added. It reinforces our views of it being a very attractive value proposition as a technology for converting waste materials into bioethanol and energy. Into power, as well.
We expect to spend the remainder of 2013 putting the plant through its paces, and demonstrating (that the plant can reach its official capacity of eight million gallons per year), said Mr. Williams in the companys official news release. All that we have seen so far validates the technical and economic viability of the technology.
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