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This American Land: Cellulosic ethanol featured on PBS
Posted 12 March 2014 in
There’s a great story to be told in America today and it has to do with the cellulosic ethanol industry. Three major commercial scale cellulosic facilities are coming online this year, the product of years of innovation and hard work, buttressed by the Renewable Fuel Standard.
DuPont, POET/DSM, and Abengoa will take agricultural waste and turn it into low-emission, sustainable ethanol. That ethanol will be blended into your fuel, helping to reduce our dependence on oil and to make our air cleaner.
Cellulosic ethanol’s coming out story goes beyond the benefits of the fuel itself. The burgeoning sector is being made possible by inventive Americans and is creating a new sector within our economy.
This American Land, a television series that airs on public television stations nationwide and looks at the stories and “issues affecting America’s natural landscapes, waters and wildlife,” took interest in the story of cellulosic ethanol, the positive impact it could have on our environment, and the people who are driving that change.
Focusing on POET/DSM’s joint venture, dubbed “Project Liberty,” This American Land featured both an ex- NFL player who started a corn-stover bailing business in Iowa that is supplying the feedstock for POET/DSM’s plant and an innovator who invented the tool used to make gathering agricultural residue economically viable.
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