Louisiana Law Promotes Non-Corn Ethanol
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal this week signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is the first state to enact alternative transportation fuel legislation that includes a variable blending pump pilot program and a hydrous ethanol pilot program.
The legislation includes the development of ethanol derived solely from Louisiana harvested crops capable of an annual yield of at least 600 gallons per acre. The law also provides for two pilot programs – an advanced biofuel variable blending pump trial and a hydrous ethanol trial.
Officials with Renergie, Inc. are pleased with passage of the law. Renergie is in the process of developing a network of ten ethanol plants in the parishes of the State of Louisiana. Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, says the legislation will “maximize rural development, benefit consumers, farmers and gas station owners while also protecting the environment and reducing the burden on local water supplies.” The Florida-based company recently received $1.5 million in grant money to design and build Florida’s first sweet sorghum juice mechanical harvesting system and ethanol plant capable of producing fuel-grade ethanol solely from sweet sorghum juice.
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Charles Johnson
This is just another socialist attack on the free market. The market will come up with logical, efficient alternatives to gasoline when the price is right. This is just theft and fraud by the politicians to buy votes.
Chet Dowden
I think a pilot program such as this is an excellent idea. Let’s see if we can come up with some new ideas for the free market to work with. Government sponsored research is a good idea. Government sponsored business is not.
Personally, I would much rather use ethanol as a transportation fuel than gasoline — as long as the price is competitive. Right now, ethanol is not competitive. Maybe this program can help change that.
DeWayne Guice
I think this is a great idea and I applaud the governor. Louisiana is stepping forward for once and is winning in the game. This is also an excellent opportunity for the farmers or Louisiana.
I hope the trend continues.
DeWayne Guice
Harrisonburg, Louisiana
The U.S. Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol - Domestic Fuel
[...] February, 2009, the U.S. EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends [...]
The U.S. Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol
[...] February, 2009, the U.S. EPA granted Renergie a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends [...]
ray
Will the pumps be adding etoh to a single gas stock or from a variety? If there is more than one stock, from an enforcement or metrology standpoint, those pumps will be the devil.
Edison
I know there is a great push for alternative and bio-fuels. The oil industries are using some ethanol mixtures, but most bio-fuel advocates are not very willing to combine traditonal fuels and their products for fuel needs. Are there any incentives to bring these green technologies and traditonal technologies together? This can possibly bring our foreign oil independence down quicker and put more money into the alternative fuel R&D funding, so we can really see positive advances in these diverse fuel technologies while reducing crude oil needs in our nation. We are one of the most productive oil, farming, and forestry states in the union and have the hardest working individuals in these areas. The only problem is that most of them leave to other states because politics and sub-par pay for these occupations drive them away to other states. Can our political leaders work to get these green and traditional industries cooperating with each other more willingly? I feel it can make our state a real leader for the rest of the nation to follow. Thanks for your attention.
Edison
R. H. Kunwar
With 40 years of practical experience in operation design construction and commissioning of sugar and by-product projects, I now have already done some detailed designing of Sorghum to Ethanol project.
This include mass and energy balance, sizing of equipments, manufacturing drawings for equipment to be constructed at project site, layout drawings, flow outline, PID drawings, and all the basic data needed to complete the project up to commercial production stage.
The project is financially feasible for even small capacities as small as 10,000 liter per day, or of medium capacity 100,000 liter/day or more, and will completely process and utilize the whole sorghum plant including sorghum juice, stalk fiber, and sorghum grain (depends if it is early harvesting for juice or after grain ripening).
Business plan (15 yrs Cash Flow projections) for any capacity ( for sorghum farming or sorghum processing ) can be done within five (5) days and sent by email. Detailed engineering and drawings (custom designed for the required capacity) can be completed within forty-five (45) days. The entire process will be of latest technology fully automatic and computerized, and all effluent discharges (liquid or gas) well below local environmental limits, and energy consumption will be the lowest.
If given on turnkey basis, a 100,000 liters per day (Sorghum to Fuel grade Ethanol) distillery can be completed in maximum 10 months in under ten (10) million US$, while a 10,000 liter per day distillery can be completed in three (3) million US$. Cost of land and working capital is not included. 70 % of the equipment will be of USA origin.
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