Coskata's ethanol produces 84 percent less greenhouse gas than fossil fuel even after accounting for the energy needed to produce and transport the feedstock. It also generates 7.7 times more energy than is required to produce it. Corn ethanol typically generates 1.3 times more energy than is used producing it.
Making ethanol is one thing, but there's almost no infrastructure in place for distributing it. But the company's method solves that problem because ethanol could be made locally from whatever feedstock is available
There's still a way to go in terms of scaling it up and distribution, but in principle this looks like a quick way to help in the short to medium term and maybe help with landfill issues too.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it's an optimistic development on first sight.
No comments:
Post a Comment