Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, August 11, 2008

Editorial: Bioenergy Takes Emphasis over Biofuel

Ethanol Producer Magazine
September 2008

By Mike Bryan, Publisher

There are marvelous options opening up to the renewable energy industry. Ethanol has helped carve a path forward to a future based in bioenergy. It’s an industry that expands far beyond the borders of ethanol and biodiesel. Bioenergy covers such a vast array of new opportunities—anaerobic digestion, gasification, pyrolysis, algae, and combined heat and power, to mention a few. What is so exciting about these technologies is that many of them can be incorporated into the present ethanol industry to improve operating efficiencies, reduce production costs and improve our carbon footprint.

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