Biomass to biofuel, or biomass for burial?

costs of burying biomass

Greater decarbonization at a lower cost is achievable by burying biomass (such as corn or sugarcane) rather than converting it into bio-ethanol. This model captures the economics. Detailed costs are…

Biofuel technologies: an overview?

Biofuel technologies overview

This data-file provides an overview of the 3.5Mbpd global biofuels industry, across its main components: corn ethanol, sugarcane ethanol, vegetable oils, palm oil, waste oils (renewable diesel), cellulosic biomass, algal…

CO2 capture: a cost curve?

CO2 capture cost curve

…that are simply being vented at present, such as from the ethanol or LNG industries, but the ultimate running-room from this opportunity set is <200MTpa. Blue hydrogen, steel and cement…

US CCS: market sizing?

US CCS market sizing

…industrial and power-sector emissions could be captured, across coal-power, gas-power, ethanol, steel, cement, chemicals and smaller manufacturing. To put this in perspective, we also quantified how many million tons of…

Commodity prices: metals, materials and chemicals?

…prices, Electric Motor and Generator prices, Electrical Transformer prices, Epoxide prices, Ethanol prices, Ethylene prices, Ethylene Oxide prices, EVA prices, Formaldehyde prices, Glass Fiber prices, Gold prices, Graphite Anode prices,…

CO2 intensity of materials: an overview?

CO2 intensity of materials

…gas gathering, gas distribution, ethanol plants. Other data-files on our website have aimed to tabulate the CO2 intensity of other value chains, but due to quirks of those value chains,…

Biofuels: better to bury than burn?

Burying biomass

The global bioethanol industry could be disrupted by a carbon price. Somewhere between $15-50/ton, it becomes more economical to bury the biofuel crop, rather than convert it into biofuels. This…

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