{"id":10,"date":"2009-11-07T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T16:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-11-07T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T16:08:23","slug":"call-for-technology-to-produce-cellulosic-ethanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-engineering\/call-for-technology-to-produce-cellulosic-ethanol.php","title":{"rendered":"Call for technology to produce cellulosic ethanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Jean Bernick, the editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agweb.com\/farmjournal\/Article.aspx?src=farmjournal&amp;sigcat=farmjournal&amp;id=147566\"><em>Farm Journal Crops &amp; Issues<\/em><\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agweb.com\/get_article.aspx?pageid=148019\">exhorting<\/a> us &#8220;to talk trash.&#8221; Funny, isn&#8217;t it? Hold back though, because Bernick is not asking you to spite the vilest epithet at your opponent. No! She wants a discussion on how the corncob, that we normally consider trash, can effectively be used to produce cellulosic ethanol.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Bernick says there&#8217;s plenty of a corncob in cornfields, but, unfortunately, the agricultural machinery industry hasn&#8217;t found the technology to move it to biorefineries. Since&#8221;\u2026cellulosic ethanol is around the corner&#8221;, Bernick wants the agricultural machinery industry to redouble efforts to find efficient technology to move corncob from the field without complicating the grain harvesting process.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>It seems Bernick is not alone. The debate about the advantages of cellulosic ethanol is finding a life of its own. The<\/span> North Dakota-based<span><br \/>\n<em>Jamestown Sun<\/em> today has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestownsun.com\/articles\/index.cfm?id=77623&amp;section=Opinion\">editorial<\/a> on the future of the ethanol industry<\/span>. <span>The editorial lists the challenges facing the ethanol industry<\/span>. <span> Particularly, it highlights the growing opposition toward food crops-based ethanol<\/span>, and poses the <span>question: Where should we be going with ethanol? <\/span>Noting that environmentalists remain strongly opposed to food-crops-based ethanol, the editorial advises  <span>&#8220;<\/span>\u2026w<span>here we would like to be going is to cellulosic ethanol, which uses nonfood crops such as switch grass, crop waste or material like wood chips as raw materials.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Just like Bernick, <em>Jamestown Sun<\/em><\/span><em>, <\/em>however,<span>worries that the &#8220;\u2026technology and industry aren&#8217;t there yet for commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol refining.&#8221; <\/span>So, what&#8217;s the way forward? <span>We all acknowledge times are <\/span>difficult <span>and that<\/span> raising capital to develop <span>new technologies for cellulosic ethanol refining<\/span> is a hard nut to crack<span>.<\/span> The private sector can&#8217;t shoulder this burden alone. It needs help from the government. <span>President-Elect Barack Obama has<\/span> already<span> pledged to pump money into th<\/span>e production of clean <span>energy. <\/span>Cellulosic ethanol is one of them. <span>Giving the agricultural machinery industry a leg up, in the form of financial assistance, to produce cutting edge technology to produce cellulosic ethanol would definitely be a big milestone in making the U.S. energy independent. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Bernick, the editor of Farm Journal Crops &amp; Issues, is exhorting us &#8220;to talk trash.&#8221; Funny, isn&#8217;t it? Hold back though, because Bernick is not asking you to spite the vilest epithet at your opponent. No! She wants a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/genetic-engineering\/call-for-technology-to-produce-cellulosic-ethanol.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetic-engineering"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}