Green gold in old tires
By Philippe Doucet from Figaro.fr
Faced with the great French bazaar of bioethanol, the United States offers to produce it from old tires!
Thunderbolt in the Landerneau of alternative energies. Coskata, an American start-up, offers to produce bioethanol for € 0,20 per liter ... from old tires or other urban and industrial waste! This would represent, according to Bill Coe, its president "about half the cost of producing gasoline in the United States." Its secret seems to be a good mastery of biofermentation, the second step, after gasification, in the process of producing green fuel.
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