Potential Yield and Impact
• Estimates vary, but cellulosic biofuel can probably make up 20-40% of current gasoline demands. * Perhaps – CBP could be used for all of this if technology advances as expected • Combined with electrification of the vehicle fleet, this could replace petroleum consumption drastically • Heather Youngs spoke about CA 2050 reduction goals: – liquid fuel demand reduced by 30% – 50% of this from biofuel – ...thus we could be looking at 30% of current liquid fossil fuel consumption, combined with heavy electrification of other energy usage * Kazi, F. K., Fortman, J. a., Anex, R. P., Hsu, D. D., Aden, A., Dutta, A., & Kothandaraman, G. (2010). Techno-economic comparison of process technologies for biochemical ethanol production from corn stover. Fuel, 89, S20–S28 |