Germany hosts first biomass to liquid plant

[jpak]

http://www.energycurrent.com/index.php?id=3&storyid=10073

GERMANY: The world's first industrial scale biomass to liquid (BTL) plant has been launched in Freiberg, Germany.

Touted as the world's first second generation biofuel refinery, the plant is slated to produce 18 million litres (3.9 million gallons) of biodiesel from wood residues, sufficient to fuel 15,000 vehicles each year.

Germany's Choren Industries, the biofuel producer behind the project, claimed the BTL fuel produced from the plant will be better suited to power the existing motor vehicles plying the country than other biodiesel available in the market.

Choren plans to set up a second plant with an annual production capacity of 250 million litres (54.9 million gallons) in Schwedt, near the Polish border. By 2020, the company aims to run 10 to 15 of BTL plants that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over three million tons (2.7 million tonnes) a year.

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[izquierdista]

1. First?

Considering the chemistry developed in Germany in the late 19th century, I would hardly consider this a "first". More like they re-read the old texts on extracting organic chemicals from natural materials and revamped it for modern needs.

[NNadir]

2. First? What about the "Changing World" turkey guts plant that was going to save the world?

One of the cute and telling things about the "renewables will save us" cults is that they declare old tired stuff new every year.

On this website, it's been going on for years and years and years and years.

In the meantime, the measurement of dangerous fossil fuel waste accumulating in the atmosphere grows and grows and grows and grows.

The results obtained by the anti-nuke wishful thinking cults are measurable, setting an all time record in 2005, more than 28 billion tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste about which the cults couldn't care less.

What's really really really really interesting is the coal that fuels the ethanol, the gas that fuels the reformers etc, etc, etc.

In 2008 anything that's a "first" in a major industrial country is too fucking late, especially in a country that is seeking to destroy - for no rational reason - the largest, by far, climate change gas infrastructure it has. Look for Germany to be impoverished.