First Commercial Plant in U.S. to Produce Biofuel (from wood, Missouri)

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http://www.renewableaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=50768

Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation and its subsidiary, Dynamotive USA, Inc., announced plans to invest $24 million to build the first fully commercial industrial biofuel plant in the U.S. The facility will be located on a site in Willow Springs, Missouri, approximately 180 miles southwest of St. Louis.

"The commercialization of BioOil adds another element to our arsenal of renewable fuels that can help address a previously neglected segment of our oil use: industrial boiler fuels."--William C. Holmberg, Chairman, Biomass Coordinating Council

The modular, second-generation biomass-to-biofuel plant is designed to use Dynamotive's fast pyrolysis process to convert 200 tons of wood by-products and residues from nearby sawmills into 34,000 gallons of BioOil per day. Development and construction of the plant will be implemented by Dynamotive's U.S. management, and supported by Dynamotive's engineering team and its partners.

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1. converting wood or corn or anything else (other than waste) will simply not solve the issue

it will, in fact, make things worse, as we've seen with the price of corn.


Biofuel is a near-sighted solution, at best.