Thursday at the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference saw three of the cellulosic ethanol plant builders give updates on their strategy for converting biomass to fuel and where their companies are today. The speakers were Wes Bolsen, CMO and vp at Coskata, Christopher Veit, senior marketing manager, biomass, for Novozymes, Inc., and Murray Burke, president and CTO of SunOpta. The short version of each of their speeches: we're doing amazing things, you should really take another look at our technology. The longer versions are spelled out after the jump. First up, Bolsen (and I'll try to not get him in trouble this time). We already know a lot about the "Coskata process," which Bolsen admitted isn't really about producing cellulosic ethanol. More precisely, it's carbon ethanol where anything that contains carbon can be gassified...
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