EPA Changes Opinion in Favor of Greenshift and Corn Oil Extraction
The SkunK is on vacation.
So the Skunk is not working?!
(You mean besides discovering an authentic Indian Restaurant (with India Beer on tap) inside a Japan Fishing Community?)
However busy in my other pursuits, for SkunK readers I have been burning daylight haunting the EPA web site like a spirit possessed trying to find a follow up on the the RFS2 statement? Empty, empty, empty. Well look at what the SkunK just found! Dated February 2010!
http://www.epa.gov/OMS/renewablefuels/420r10003.pdf
SEARCH WITH "GreenShift" or "corn oil"
Me thinks this is Big.
Read it all but look at these quotes from the EPA:
"The information provided in GreenShift’s comments, as well as conversations between GreenShift and EPA has been taken into account to update the electrical energy use and corn oil recovery potential of corn oil extraction modeling."
"Based on our final rulemaking analysis we have found that corn ethanol, including advanced technologies such as corn oil extraction/fractionation, reduce GHG emissions by more than the 20% threshold required for renewable fuels." p 7-375
I do not see how you can read this paragraph above and not draw the enormously significant conclusion that if you use GreenShift technologies, your ethanol plant will then meet the EPA requirement for renewable fuels.
"Significant Contributor"And this is REALLY big!
"For the final rulemaking, EPA’s agricultural models have been updated with revised estimates for fractionation and extraction use in the future. Based on engineering cost analysis, it is expected that by 2022, 70% of dry mill corn ethanol plants will adopt extraction technology, 20% will adopt fractionation technology, and 10% will not adopt either technology. Corn oil that is withdrawn from the extraction process is not food-grade, and is considered only suitable as a biodiesel feedstock. By 2022, it is estimated that corn oil from extraction is a significant contributor to the biodiesel volume required by the RFS2 rule." p 10-3
**************RFS2 Regulatory Impact Analysis
I am running down some more searches/leads - Maybe more here. . .
Here is something else:
"allowing for corn oil from extraction as a major biodiesel feedstock."
Here is the EPA's new Opinion:
"Based on cost projections outlined in Section 4, it is estimated that by 2022, 70% of dry mill ethanol plants will conduct extraction, 20% will conduct fractionation, and that 10% will
choose to do neither. These parameters have been incorporated into the FASOM and FAPRICARD models for the final rulemaking analysis, allowing for corn oil from extraction as a major biodiesel feedstock." p- 426
http://www.epa.gov/OMS/renewablefuels/420r10006.pdf
Here the FASOM says just how big a player COES WILL BE :
FASOM estimates that an additional 2 million tons of soybean oil is used to produce soybean biodiesel in 2022, relative to the AEO2007 Reference Case. In addition, FASOM projects that an additional 17.5 million tons of non-food grade corn oil from the extraction process will be used for biodiesel production in 2022. p 892
And you gotta check this out:
http://www.epa.gov/OMS/renewablefuels/#regulations
The SkunK, in the last blog "the Buzz" wanted to know the reason for the HIGH Volume spike last couple days? The SkunK was right in it had to do with that announced government release of information. He now believes that THIS IS the specific reason:
The Government believes that only due to new technology can the Ethanol Industry now meet the new standards. Specifically and Mostly through GreenShift's technologies.
WoW!
SkunK
The SkunK is on vacation.
So the Skunk is not working?!
(You mean besides discovering an authentic Indian Restaurant (with India Beer on tap) inside a Japan Fishing Community?)
However busy in my other pursuits, for SkunK readers I have been burning daylight haunting the EPA web site like a spirit possessed trying to find a follow up on the the RFS2 statement? Empty, empty, empty. Well look at what the SkunK just found! Dated February 2010!
http://www.epa.gov/OMS/renewablefuels/420r10003.pdf
SEARCH WITH "GreenShift" or "corn oil"
Me thinks this is Big.
Read it all but look at these quotes from the EPA:
"The information provided in GreenShift’s comments, as well as conversations between GreenShift and EPA has been taken into account to update the electrical energy use and corn oil recovery potential of corn oil extraction modeling."
"Based on our final rulemaking analysis we have found that corn ethanol, including advanced technologies such as corn oil extraction/fractionation, reduce GHG emissions by more than the 20% threshold required for renewable fuels." p 7-375
I do not see how you can read this paragraph above and not draw the enormously significant conclusion that if you use GreenShift technologies, your ethanol plant will then meet the EPA requirement for renewable fuels.
"Significant Contributor"And this is REALLY big!
"For the final rulemaking, EPA’s agricultural models have been updated with revised estimates for fractionation and extraction use in the future. Based on engineering cost analysis, it is expected that by 2022, 70% of dry mill corn ethanol plants will adopt extraction technology, 20% will adopt fractionation technology, and 10% will not adopt either technology. Corn oil that is withdrawn from the extraction process is not food-grade, and is considered only suitable as a biodiesel feedstock. By 2022, it is estimated that corn oil from extraction is a significant contributor to the biodiesel volume required by the RFS2 rule." p 10-3
**************RFS2 Regulatory Impact Analysis
I am running down some more searches/leads - Maybe more here. . .
Here is something else:
"allowing for corn oil from extraction as a major biodiesel feedstock."
Here is the EPA's new Opinion:
"Based on cost projections outlined in Section 4, it is estimated that by 2022, 70% of dry mill ethanol plants will conduct extraction, 20% will conduct fractionation, and that 10% will
choose to do neither. These parameters have been incorporated into the FASOM and FAPRICARD models for the final rulemaking analysis, allowing for corn oil from extraction as a major biodiesel feedstock." p- 426
http://www.epa.gov/OMS/renewablefuels/420r10006.pdf
Here the FASOM says just how big a player COES WILL BE :
FASOM estimates that an additional 2 million tons of soybean oil is used to produce soybean biodiesel in 2022, relative to the AEO2007 Reference Case. In addition, FASOM projects that an additional 17.5 million tons of non-food grade corn oil from the extraction process will be used for biodiesel production in 2022. p 892
And you gotta check this out:
http://www.epa.gov/OMS/renewablefuels/#regulations
The SkunK, in the last blog "the Buzz" wanted to know the reason for the HIGH Volume spike last couple days? The SkunK was right in it had to do with that announced government release of information. He now believes that THIS IS the specific reason:
The Government believes that only due to new technology can the Ethanol Industry now meet the new standards. Specifically and Mostly through GreenShift's technologies.
WoW!
SkunK
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