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Originally Posted by Shawnski
Fine... everything I have read is that it comes from corn oil... the corn itself. If husk and cob technology is making headway without impact to the kernel foodstuff itself, cool. Link it.
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Check out the company Lignol, the technology is called cellulosic ethonal, whereby biodeisel is extracted from alternative feedstocks from corn. Things like woodchips and agriculture residue. There are hundreds of private companies in Canada trying to bring this technology to market, and yes - most of them are subsidized to some effect.
On another side of biodeisel, there seems to be a developing market for "plant producers". These firms manufacture small, kitable plants, and sell them to industry. So a farm or forestry company would attach the small plant to their factories, feed them with their wastestock, and in return greatly reduce the amount of power they require.
One example in the news lately:
http://fe8.news.re3.yahoo.com/s/afp/...iofuelswarming
Regardless, Biodeisel will not be an replacement. It merely will be an additional helper or load-reducer. 20% of every unit of gas in a car actually moves it forward, while the other 80% is lost as heat. 35% of the energy in coal is turned into electricity in plants. The CEO of Shell predicts that fossil fuels will still account for 70% of all energy by the year 2050, so his main point is this whole alternative energy movement should focus on efficiency of our systems. This is where there will be major opportunities going forward.