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White House Announces Interagency Biofuels Group

2 Comments Posted by – May 5th, 2009

white houseThe White House will form a working group to be chaired by the heads of three government agencies to speed the sustainable development of biofuels.

The action was announced during a press conference this morning with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who will head the new Biofuels Interagency Working Group. They pledged to work together to accelerate funding to encourage production of next-generation biofuels from biomass and other non-corn feedstocks.

Categories: biofuels, Energy, Government

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  • May 6, 2009 — 10:49 am

    Ronald J Williams

    Cindy
    At issue is gaining access to the biomass (downed or dead timber) logistics, transportation, costs per ton for feedstock to be delivered, site location for syngas conversion, and final delivery to end user of a specified gas, i.e. hydrogen,thermal and or electric production for a PPA. We have the technology and a pilot plant for the aforementioned conversion of biomass to fuel. This is but one of many issues that desperately need to be addressed. Subsidies on cost of fuel delivered is paramount to financial success (private sector) if this is going to be honestly addressed by these participants. Downed biomass in the forest is available subject to geographic locations, terrain, costs of harvesting, delivery to to physical plant and final delivery to end user. Sounds simple but is very complicated. Thoughts?????

    Ron Williams

  • May 8, 2009 — 9:42 am

    Joe Badyrka

    Since the US pulp and paper manufacturing industry has suffered a significant decline, with mill closures and reduced production rates, why not consider conversion of a working pulp mill, or a closed/shut down pulp mill for ethanol production from wood. Much of the infrastructure and logistics (wood supply, transportation,etc.) are presently in place. Most mills also have existing process equipment that perhaps could be used for ethanol production, such as boilers, distillation columns, tanks, etc.

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