Interesting, but got 1 Part Wrong

Very good inside baseball article.  I take umbrage at this however:

"Although corn oil extraction is perhaps the most attractive of the five technologies because of its relatively low cost, the 1.33 pounds-per-bushel minimum is not achievable at this time"

See Article HERE
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This from the recent GREENSHIFT 10K:

"The EPA has designated back-end corn oil extraction as an Advanced Technology. EPA further clarified that to get credit for an Advanced Technology using back-end extraction, the ethanol plant must extract corn oil from 90% of its production and achieve an annual recovery of 1.33 pounds of corn oil per bushel of corn processed to make ethanol. As an example, if a typical plant uses corn containing about 3.8% corn oil, or approximately 2.1 pounds of corn oil in a 56-pound bushel, then EPA’s target represents about a 62% total oil extraction rate.



Plant conditions vary, but our patented and patent-pending corn oil extraction technologies can generally recover about 70% of the oil from thin stillage, or about 0.74 pounds per bushel of corn. We can double that yield to approximately 1.5 pounds per bushel with another method applied to whole stillage. While each ethanol plant will be different, depending on the corn available, chemicals used, and other process variations, an Advanced Technology can be claimed by an ethanol producer that uses our technologies to extract corn oil." p.11

SkunK