ETHANOL IS THE FUTURE
The CTS pilot process being carried out at Alliance BioEnergy
Time to move on It is commonly accepted that this love affair must eventually end if climate change and energy security concerns are going to be meaningfully addressed . Huge chunks of the debate have been dedicated to renewable and nuclear forms of electrification , with little attention paid to the role that ethanol could have in this fuel mix . The solution to powering cars , trucks , planes , ships and industrial applications might be closer than we think .
This is where up and coming companies such as Alliance Bio- Products ( ABP ), subsidiary of Alliance BioEnergy , come in . Using its sublicense to the patented celluloseto-sugar ( CTS ) cellulose conversion technology , ABP plans to own and operate bioethanol plants , powered by waste , throughout the US .
Initially targeting closed or struggling facilities for acquisition and conversion to the CTS process , ABP will eventually partner with existing corn-based ethanol plants to add the CTS process and ween them off of corn food .
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