Coskata's Cheap Non-Food Ethanol Available in 2010

The ethanol technology company Coskata (who was subject of a major announcement in conjunction with General Motors at the North American International Auto Show earlier this year) has announced a strategic alliance with ICM, Inc., a major producer of ethanol, to design and construct the first plant using Coskata's bio-process for creating non-food-based ethanol.

Although a location for the first Coskata plant has not yet been announced, the press release for this announcement indicated that this plant is expected to open in 2010. Company executives spoke of a quick drive to market with the technology when Coskata made its initial announcements in early January, and this certainly reflects that mindset.

In the meantime, we'll be watching for more information about the pilot plant Coskata is planning to set up in the nearer future, and for more information about steps in ethanol distribution. Making E85 more widely available is going to be an important part of making this technology meaningful in the overall fuel mix.

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Can this save General Motors?
written by Patrick Kilhoffer, February 07, 2008

The money spent on fuel over the lifetime of a car is about the same as the cost of the car in the first place. If GM can get a big share of the E85 market, plus a big share of the E10 market, this could go a long way towards making up for their declining sales PLUS give them a much more stable income stream. And it would be really nice to have something to say to the nuts that think the car companies are buying up the plans for 100 MPG cars and scrapping them.

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written by EV, February 07, 2008

Nah. The nuts would only use this as evidence. The more fuel the cars use, the more money the automakers get. See?

Mind you, I still consider the theory rubbish.

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written by T, February 08, 2008

The archaic technology of the internal combustion engine itself should be scrapped.

Software Architect and Founder
written by SnowyNomad, July 12, 2008

Cellulosic ethonal sounds a little scary to me... give humans the ability to unlock the carbon of every plant on the face of the earth in addition to sucking it out of the ground. Albeit better than gas (DoE says its 85% or so better over refined gas) one reason is because of the carbon sequestration of plant while growing, it still adds to our current co2 problem... Electric vehicles (yes, we need to put in money to clean battery technology like scalable lithium or better) takes the power plant out of the vehicle and makes vehicles energy source agnostic... power it with whatever is cleanest and cheapest.... cheapest with the environmental costs factored in. Ever see "Who killed the electric car?" The EV1 was sweet... and things like the Aptera make me want to buy one now (www.aptera.com)... which I saw through this site... thanks to eco geek for all the great articles!

Solution for future energy in undeveloped countries
written by Car Blogger, April 20, 2010

There are lot of countries in the developing world which have surplus of arable land but not have an access to the markets in the developed world. Bio fuel from the crops is a good solution for them, because they can produce food, but can not sell. Sometimes the crops just rotten on the fields because there are no buyer.

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