2nd Gen Biofuel Technology now ready for use

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Written by Sabrina Deparine

Monday, 18 October 2010 10:59

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Danish industry leaders say that the technology created to extract ethanol from non-edible sources has already moved beyond the research phase and is now ready for large-scale rollout in the biofuels industry. By far, the only thing that is hampering it from large-scale applications is the lack of support and incentives from policymakers.

The term “second-generation biofuel” refers to alternative fuel made from ethanol that comes from plant wastes. These plant wastes include sugarcane bagasse, straw, and corn cobs. Second-generation biofuel is different from first-generation biofuel because the latter is made from edible crops like sugarcane and corn.

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At the moment, production of second-generation biofuel is still considered to be in its infancy stage not because of the technology behind it but because policymakers are still unable to formulate the right regulatory framework to support it. In Europe, for instance, Novozymes Head, Steen Riisgaard is pleading the government to create a suitable framework for the policies and incentives concerning the manufacture of second-generation biofuel. According to him, all technologies are now ready for deployment but they could not make use of it because the government does not have any policies to guide the operations.

One of the recent studies conducted showed that the European Union has the capacity to replace as much as 62% of its annual gasoline consumption with second-generation biofuels in ten years’ time.

The call to create suitable policies governing the production of second-generation biofuels is very timely as it coincides with the announcement that the United States Environmental Protection Agency will clear the way to raise the limit of ethanol on gasoline from 10% to 15% for new vehicles.

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