With the world plunged into suffocation from global warming leading to chocking the cities across the world, the need to lower the overall greenhouse gas emissions is growing in importance.
Vehicles being the major contributors to carbon production, the search for alternative energy to run them are on – besides many others, ethanol being one of the established alternative energy elements.
Cuing up with this necessity, California too needs ethanol production facility of itself. So, to build the state’s first cellulose to ethanol production facility, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc. has filed for its permits with Los Angeles County.
The $40 million project to have its most reduced carbon footprints will be using green and wood waste streams for feedstock. The facility will be built adjacent to the Lancaster landfill.
To add to its contribution towards the environment, the facility plans to use recycled water and will generate roughly 70 percent of its total energy needs from lignin – i.e. reusing one of its process co-product.
If the plant gets its permit and can successfully meet its target-production of more than 70 billions gallons of fuel grade ethanol from the all-1 billion tons of recoverable waste in the US, this plant would surely be an “exemplary” for such environment-friendly future system modules.
