[Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant

Warner Kimo Sutton kimos at me.com
Mon Jan 24 23:36:35 CST 2011


Very Big ditto!

 I could use a couple of those research/grant bucks to make real jobs and energy in paradise.
Hawaii will have the most robust alternative energy market in years to come and even an ethanol plant could ween us off $7 bill fossil fuels a year.

Warner Kimo Sutton



On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Luke Gardner wrote:

MARK,
glad to see I was not the only one disgusted by this,, that is untill this evening when I realised what was the fundamental fault or "techical problem they encountered".  they were using bundles of us dollars in the reactor as the bio feedstock, and made as much deisel and ethonal as they could till the money ran out.  you know its a technical problem!
luke
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Ludlow
To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant

Sounds a little like, "Back to the drawing board."
There is some critical scale for pilot-development that helps to reduce the risk of up-scaling. Duh! If RF had dropped $10MM, people would be startled. But $300MM? It's literally unbelievable.
There must have been a bunch of golf weekends at St. Andrews included on the tab. Wow! A (RAT)HOLE-in-one.
Magic happens; now watch us make nearly 1/3 Billion U$D disappear.
 
 
 
From: gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Viswanathan KS
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 7:13 PM
To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Range Fuels Closing Plant
 
Does it mean that Range Fuels have still unsolved problems in their Cellulosic Ethanol process?

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:
 
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/21755
 
 
"Cellulosic ethanol company Range Fuels is closing its Soperton, Georgia facility after completing it first batch of ethanol, according to story posted by Georgia Public Broadcasting.

The firm, which has received more than $300 million dollars in state, federal and private funding, will lay off the majority of its workers and shutter operations, while it attempts to raise more money and address technical issues." 

 

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