I wonder if it is the same process as used by the cellulosic plant in Spiritwood, ND. The railroad was the Rock Island. In 1985, it was C&NW. So that is why it is now UP.
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| DesmoinesRegister, paycount DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and POET Founder/Executive Chairman Jeff Broin cut a ribbon during the grand opening of POET-DSM's first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg in 2014. (Photo: Mary Willie/The Register) |
Blaming the federal government for failing to support the industry, a South Dakota company said Tuesday it will stop production in northwest Iowa of an environmentally friendly ethanol that's made from corn cobs, stalks and other crop residue. [The support was not subsidies. The support was the EPA requiring ethanol to be added to gas. Since 2016, the use of ethanol in gas has been reduced by the EPA.]
Poet, the nation's largest ethanol producer, said it will continue research and development at the Emmetsburg plant it opened in 2014.
[Taxpayers paid $120m of the $275m needed to build the plant.]
Cellulosic ethanol — made from biomass, including grass, wood and, at the Poet plant, crop residue — can reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 95% when compared with gasoline.
In 2017, DuPont closed a cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa, then sold it last year to Verbio North America Corp., the Michigan-based subsidiary of German-based Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie AG. The company plans to produce renewable natural gas at the plant.
[DesmoinesRegister]
The article says the ethanol plant next door that uses corn will continue to operate. The plant by the tracks would be the corn-based plant. The plant south of that would be the crop-residue plant. |
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