GCarbon USA is teamed up with various feedstock producers of new ethanol pathways such as agave and sweet potatoes that provide much higher yields/ha (10-15X corn). In the case of sweet potatoes we get much higher yields of ethanol per ha (14-17,000 liter/ha) and very high feed/ha. (55 MT per ha. of feed at 18% protein). This allows for co-production of food & fuel through an integrated ethanol and hog plant where wet feed is provided to hogs (no drying of residual) and biogas from hog waste is used for steam generation (with solar thermal to reduce loads). With agave we can achieve yields ranging from 1000 to 3500 MT/ha of biomass over 5 years (130 to 700 MT ha/yr), sequester 60-80 MT/ha/year in soils and produce 30% fibers for permanent sequestration in composites for cars. Sugar output is 20% and ethanol 10% so we have up to 70 MT/ha/yr. of ethanol and up to 210 MT/ha/yr. of fibers for composites. We are working on planting 29,000 ha. of agave and sweet potatoes in Baja California, 25,000 ha. in Sonora and undetermined acres in Imperial Valley (from 500 to 20,000 acres depending on land availability). This could produce up to 550 million gallons of ethanol per year from the region. We are also working with a company that is blending ethanol with water and using the blended fuel in diesel and gasoline engines and generators. We will be introducing this fuel blend to CA in connection with back up and peak shaving generators, range extenders for buses, trucks and vans and various engine replacement markets (drayage trucks, buses, vessels, off road, etc.). The resulting fuel is expected to be zero carbon or CI negative as a result of biogas credit, super high efficiency, use of water-ethanol engines in all transport and production and by-product allocation credits. We are looking for fleets interested in evaluating the fuel technology or that would like to use it in electric heavy duty applications. Generators will be commercially available in 6 months and we will be doing pilots in 2021. Engine projects are being done in connection with MOU-s and large market outlets for the technology once demonstrated. Fuel efficiency is improve by 33-50% in engines and emissions of SOX and PM2.5 are zero and Nox is reduced by 50%. Cost of fuel is much cheaper than diesel or gasoline even with a hefty margin on fuel sales.
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