Renewable Biofuels and Biochemicals: Cellulosic Ethanol

Cellulosic ethanol is one of the simplest and least expensive biofuels to make from cellulosic biomass. Most ethanol sold in the Pacific Northwest is made from corn grown in the Midwest. AHB is working to make ethanol more sustainable in the PNW by producing cellulosic ethanol from locally grown poplar trees.

[@CenusaBioenergy]

Nice job with this video on cellulosic ethanol from woody biomass.

[@TheDarKAnjl]

great video! its great to see more diverse feedstocks in cellulosic ethanol production

[@robertbidochon7949]

+Hardwood Biofuels Very good video and demonstration of your engineering talents : )

[@vivekprabhu2651]

In developed countries you already have systematic waste segregation in place. With these cellulosic ethanol production you can lead the world in biofuels. In every town or a city w.r.t biomass availability production unit needs to be set up. The power required for these units can be from combination of renewable + energy storage + grid. What's stopping you, you have all resources and wealth. This is amazing lead the world in Biofuels.

[@gavin1956]

Government Policy Needs to support this. Instead we are pouring money into EVs which are stripping earth of lithium.

[@OctPSfever]

Which is total joke...

[@priyamkamdar1056]

Could you please tell me the net energy yield for cellulosic ethanol in MJ/L??

[@matthewjackson9615]

"We're excited about the opportunities...." says it all. That is code for "our technology ain't there yet". I'm thinking that long term economically viable renewable energy is still 50 years out. Somebody will come up with a breakthrough , just not in my lifetime.

[@tenj00]

No, this technology is pretty much done developing, but it is not needed, because oil is very cheap right now. It would be a waste of money.

[@r.guerreiro140]

@@tenj00 Somehow, the point is that, instead buying already available biofuel from countries with climatic favorable conditions to produce it, the preference is to keep the oil industry running.
Brazil not just have a by itself competitive substitute for gasoline, but also rely on cultivated eucalyptus firewood to replace industrial use of gas and coal, with more than one hundred million hectares available for expansion.
There are also many other countries through tropical Americas, Africa and Asia with similar potentials.
Nevertheless, the choice still being Russia and Middle East fossil fuels.

[@rockeshepherd7694]

got any of those small plants ready yet ?

[@Baby1245]

Branches of date trees in the middle east as well as wasted date fruits is a good material for ethanol.

[@asraaal_dolaemy6138]

I want to do something like this in iraq can you help me?

[@lawrencefearon6830]

What's easier: adapting your current car to 30% cheaper carbon negative cellulosic ethanol [E85] or replacing it with a new EV ? Exactly.

[@velikdole9712]

Easier and much cheaper is using the EV. Price of this ethanol is around 20 times higher compared to driving an EV (and 2 times higher than gas).

[@lawrencefearon6830]

@@velikdole9712 Wrong. No EV is the price of a tank of ethanol. But you know that.

[@velikdole9712]

@@lawrencefearon6830 You are wrong. Even when you account for the higher puchase price of an EV, EV is CHEAPER long term compared to gasoline car. Here in europe we pay 7 $ per gallon for diesel..

[@lawrencefearon6830]

@@velikdole9712 ethanol is not gasoline. It’s a very different sourced and produced liquid fuel. $2.34/gallon here in America.

[@velikdole9712]

@@lawrencefearon6830 I know that ethanol is not gasoline. 2,34$ per gallon is SUBSIDIZED cost, actual cost is much higher than that, around 10$ per gallon. But even if you take into account lower 2,34$ per gallon number, that is STILL 4 times MORE expensive than driving an electric car..

[@danieldombai7267]

ever heard of paulownia, the world's fastest growing tree????