Re: ethynol?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:54 am
The company i work for has a subsiduary company that is working on ways of unlocking the cellulose structure for wood by-products. being we are a wood plantation company we want to make use of these by-products (eg sawdust, cut of branches, etc)Foxtrot X-Ray wrote:As I understand, it's the Cellulose that's the problem..
Sawdust & Pulped wood can be fermented & distilled, but it takes special enzymes (And thus extra Cost)..
Add to that the price of crude is set by the cartel, not by market demand.roadwarriormfp wrote:Our government here in Australia have no lifted one finger to help bring ethonol into any major production, nor does it seem interested. It would rather slug us with a 45% tax on petrol.
