Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol

gnick writes to mention Wired is reporting that an Illinois startup is claiming they can make ethanol from most any organic material for around $1/gallon. Coskata, backed by General Motors and several other investors, uses a process that is bacteria based instead of some of the other available methods. The bacteria processes organic material that is fed into the reactor and secretes ethanol as a waste product.

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stop the lies

[timmarhy]

If they are telling investors it's $1/gallon, you can be sure it's more like $3 if they ever actually go into production. and why the fuck are they using CORN? it's a terrible source of ethanol

Thanks for nothing.

[IGnatius T Foobar]

The push for ethanol is part of this whole green wacko thing, and as with most of the other plans currently being implemented, will eventually hurt us. The demand for crops to fuel ethanol manufacturing is already driving up the price of food. Now we have to compete with our cars for food! What good is it to be able to drive cheaply to the store if you can't afford to buy any food once you get there?

Re:Great, but

[ArcherB]

Sounds good to me. I'm all for artificially limiting the supply of gasoline to force people to improve their efficiency and seek out alternative fuels. I hope they don't build anymore oil refineries, ever. That's because you are a selfish son of a bitch who loves the idea of forcing other people to bend to your will, regardless of the cost. You see, some of don't live on a farm or in our parent's basement. Some of us have to drive our cars that use fuel to work, so we can drive those same cars that use fuel to the grocery store where we buy food that was grown using equipment that used MORE fuel so we can feed our families. I guess you either make too much money or live with your parents. Either way, you have no idea what money means. Money is not something given for that X-box game. Money is not something that is inherited to most people. For most people money is not something that we have so much of that other people will pay us enough money to survive just so that they can HOLD our money. Nope. Money is my blood, sweat, tears and time away from home and family doing meaningless bullshit for someone who has enough money to pay me to do it because they don't want to do it themselves. Money is what keeps me away from my little girl so much that I only hear about the little milestones that she does every day. THAT is what money is. Money is the ability to pay my bills, keep the lights on, the house warm, a roof over my family's head and food for the table. It is what keeps us alive. Money is NOT a tool for people like you to use change my behavior you don't like the way I live MY life. It is not some political tool for pieces of shit like you to use to control the behavior of the working stiffs of this country.

Look, I'd all about saving the environment if I it had never changed before. If the earth had a history of a constant temperature that was suddenly changing, I'd worry. If I saw the people that shouted the loudest about the dangers of climate change riding a bike and living in mud huts, I'd be nervous. However, that is not the case. These people screaming the loudest are the same people with houses that are larger that the block I live on and travel private jets and limousines to a conference where they spread FUD about how the world is being destroyed unless we act NOW. If they don't believe it, why should I? Personally, I'm freezing my ass off. We've had record cold snaps these past few years and extremely mild summers. Sorry, but my thermometer is a better gauge of the temperature at my house than some ice core from Greenland!

I drive an efficient car because I don't want my money going to people that want to kill me and my family. We could take that a step further if shit-heads like you would stop protesting every domestic energy source we have. Nuclear, coal, wind, hydro, and yes, OIL, have all been protested by people like you. Each has their own reasons. Nuclear is dangerous (it's not), wind kills birds (it doesn't), coal is dirty (it doesn't have to be), hydro interrupts the spawning habits of salmon (I don't give a shit), and oil might interrupt the sex habits of caribou that live 2000 miles away from anyone (it hasn't any where else... and I don't give a shit. I've never visited a caribou and have no plans to. They could all die and would make 0% difference in my life!). I figure it's not about all these bullshit reasons you guys spout off. It's all about control. You and your do what you do to control people, for nothing more than the satisfaction, because you have to live by the same restrictions you put on the rest of us. Your lust for power makes that all worth it, I guess.

So hell yeah! Give me my cheap, locally produced gas so I can live my life the way the founding fathers wanted and so many died for, FREE!