Cellulosic Ethanol Production Important To Rural America
This is a load of corn cobs being unloaded after they were just harvested at the POET Project LIBERTY Field Day.
We watched several different equipment manufacturers display their latest products to handle collecting the corn cobs for use in cellulosic ethanol production. I’ve got video clips of them in action which I’ll be posting in coming days. In the meantime you can see photos in the photo album which I just updated.
POET Project LIBERTY Field Day Photo Album
Before we got started I interviewed POET CEO Jeff Broin about what we should expect. He emphasizes the importance of cellulosic ethanol production and what utilizing corn cobs as a biomass will mean to farmers and rural America. You can listen to my interview with Jeff below or watch the video:
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In this week's program Chuck talks with Mike Adams, AgriTalk.
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[...] the next year, nearly 60,000 tons of bone-dry light corn stover and corn cobs will be delivered to Project Liberty in an effort to refine biomass harvesting, storage and transportation techniques in time for the [...]
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