Cellulosic ethanol promises to be a better alternative to fossil fuels
Two weeks ago, Finnish company Chempolis opened a new facility in the town Oulu to produce ethanol. Chempolis is a 15-year-old process biotech company, and its new plant produces ethanol in one of the least destructive ways possible: using farm waste and plants cultivated in non-arable land. Theoretically at least, if we use this process, there is enough raw material in the world to meet all our oil needs.
Chempolis calls its process as the third generation of biofuels. Corn-based ethanol is the first generation and ethanol from wood waste and marginal land crops the second.
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