Part 1: Production technologies: where are we?
The financial crisis of 2008 set back a number of projects and slowed actual construction of pilot and demo plants like it did in all industries, be they biofuels or traditional fossil energy projects. That, coupled with the negative press for corn ethanol, slowed progress and funding of biofuels to a crawl, causing delays of up to two years in many business plans. But despite these challenges, entrepreneurs have persevered and in many cases are further along than expected in achieving practical economics that now justify their first commercial units (FCUs).
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Author: Vinod Khosla
