Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The technology and industry aren’t there yet for commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol refining.”

KVOA.com: “Bud Klepper developed the technology that takes wood chips and beetle kill and turns them into ethanol in Denver….You may be wondering if the wood chip approach to making ethanol is cheaper than corn based ethanol. Well, the company says it is cheaper, but it wouldn’t say by how much.”

The Jamestown (ND) Sun: “Trying to make sense out of the ethanol industry, corn ethanol refining in particular, suggests trying to catch a greased, corn-fed hog…Where should we be going with ethanol? Where we would like to be going is to cellulosic ethanol, which uses nonfood crops such as switchgrass, crop waste or material like wood chips as raw materials. But the technology and industry aren’t there yet for commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol refining.”

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