| Subject: Re: Along with wind power, ethanol has become the newest big thing in the Midwest and Great Plains... |
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Date Posted: 22:20:45 11/08/06 Wed
In reply to:
bubba
's message, "Along with wind power, ethanol has become the newest big thing in the Midwest and Great Plains..." on 11:54:56 11/08/06 Wed
Actually for right now this is a pretty "localized" event and it's going to take awhile (few years) to really move. The biggest drawback are materials used in the pumps, some pipelines and other little small things that don't like ethanol. the midwest has had years to prep for it. Not so much anywhere else. Once materials manufacturers gearup for replacement components things should really start to move.
>...now if they can just keep tariffs on Brazilian
>ethanol for another five-seven years and add enough
>grid capacity in the plains states to transport all
>those wind powered mega-watts, those prospects might
>pan out.
>
>>And the profits keep rolling in.
>>
>>US Ethanol Industry on Pace for 20+% Growth in Annual
>>Production
>>8 November 2006
>>
>>According to data provided by the Renewable Fuels
>>Association, US ethanol production is currently
>>averaging nearly 4.7 billion gallons a year, a 20.5%
>>increase from the 3.9 billion gallons produced in
>2005.
>>
>>In August, US producers averaged 329,000 barrels per
>>day (bpd)—a record for daily production average and an
>>increase of 69,000 bpd from August 2005. Demand for
>>ethanol remained strong, averaging 385,000 bpd in
>>August, approaching the record demand set back in
>>June. Stocks and imports of ethanol also rose in
>>August to 384.7 million gallons and 133.2 million
>>gallons respectively.
>>
>>Currently, 106 ethanol biorefineries nationwide have
>>the capacity to produce more than 5 billion gallons
>>annually. There are 48 ethanol refineries and 7
>>expansions under construction with a combined annual
>>capacity of more than 3.5 billion gallons.
>>
>>Among recent major plant developments are:
>>
>> *
>>
>> E3 BioFuels announced it will begin production
>>in December 2006 at Mead, Nebraska, as the first-ever
>>closed-loop system for distilling commercial
>>quantities of ethanol using methane gas recaptured
>>from cow manure, instead of fossil fuels. This
>>virtually eliminates the need for fossil fuels in the
>>production of ethanol.
>>
>> In addition to breaking ground on its
>>100-million gallon plant in Hereford Texas, Panda
>>Ethanol announced plans for an additional 100-million
>>gallon plants in Lincoln County, Nebraska and
>>Muleshoe, Texas. Panda will fuel its six announced
>>ethanol plants by gasifying cow manure (earlier
>>post)—the Muleshoe plant will use 1 billion pounds of
>>cow manure per year, as an example. On 7 November,
>>Panda went public via a reverse merger with Cirracor.
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