Our outlook for biofuels in energy transition investigates how food and energy shortages will re-shape liquid biofuels? This 11-page note explores four questions. Could the US re-consider its ethanol blending…
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…
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…
…yields fall to c11-13M calories/acre for rice, 4-6M for wheat, 2-6M for soybeans. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/04/29/ethanol-getting-wasted/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/05/13/ethanol-hangover-cures/ (3) Animal agriculture has >85% lower yields per overall acre. Producing 1 calorie of eggs…
…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…
…acre, and 2.8 gallons of ethanol per bushel. Multiply through and the total ethanol production would be 80 bn gallons per annum, equivalent to c5Mbpd of oil: 5x larger than…
…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…
…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,…
…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,…
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…