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Biofuels in Transition

Scott Kohl, Ph.D. Technical Director, ICM, Inc.
Notes from:
Advanced Biofuels Summit; Washington, DC; April 20-21, 2009
ICM has 100 ethanol plants today.
Energy required and fuel produced.
When we started making fuel from grain in 1975, the fuel yield per bushel was 2 gallons. It took 100,000 BTU’s per gallon – more energy than the fuel delivers.
By 1995, [...]

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