Comments on: Here Comes Bio Butanol at Commercial Scale

By: Charlie Rheo

Charlie Rheo — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:25:10 +0000

BioButanol is very exciting. Do you know of other development in biobutanol other than active developments by DuPont/BP, Cobalt, Gevo, and Imperial? I would like to include those on my website http://www.biobutanol.com.

Thank you,
Sam

By: Karel

Karel — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:21:58 +0000

I like this idea being developed in Israel, and I note that this company with another is shortly to build a major plant together to make Bioethanol from non-food based biomass in the Mediterranean country. In this it seems that they could be offering the Macro-Algae as a means to absorb the GHG CO2 from a local power station there.
Sounds like joined up thinking

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:43:27 +0000

Very interesting comments but why use Food Crops? The obvious issue is that we must use Non-Food Crops and Wastes to make Butanol. To mee it looks as though Macro-Algae from farmed sources as currently under experiment in Israel is the simplest route as there are no competing sources for the use of material. And if as I hear that the yield material contains as you would expect no Lignin (expected) and that the main bulk is Cellulose then it must be a winner. I am not sure where the Universities are coming from though. In the Algae business most seem to be looking at Miceo-Algae and that would in preference be the Lipid and Oil developments.

By: Butyl Dude

Butyl Dude — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:34:19 +0000

Takchess,

The mileage for a car on gas and on butanol is basically the same. This was proven in a 1992 Buick with no modifications and using only 100% butanol.

However, while going across the desert the car ran cooler. When going up Mt. Palomar, the across The Grape Vine north of Los Angles the butanol made the car behave like it had diesel in it. It did not heal over as gasoline does. I saw about 5% better mileage performance throughout the trip.

The only problem with biobutanol is no one is producing it on a large scale and the Gevo work mentioned above is a great step forward to seeing Butanol in your tank.

Well Done..Gevo..well done

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By: Takchess

Takchess — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:39:12 +0000

This is in keeping with Khosla statements that without corn ethanol other biofuel would not of been invested in.

I haven’t heard the mileage figures in a typical car of a Biob vs Gas. Do you know?

By: Susan Kishner

Susan Kishner — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:24:25 +0000

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