Getting Off Oil
What if you could choose to drive
We're working on it.
Getting Off Oil
Biofuels and bioplastics have the potential to replace large amounts of
oil. Achieving that potential requires cellulosic feedstocks and the
technology to convert them to renewable drop-in bioplastics, renewable
chemicals, and advanced biofuels.
How Can We Get Off
Using flex-fuel vehicles, Brazil today uses ethanol from
sugarcane to replace 40% of its gasoline. In the U.S., Cellulosic
biofuels can replace 60% of our gasoline use in 10 years. And not just
gasoline. Technology exists today to convert sugar from biomass to biojetfuel
and green diesel which are drop-in compatible with their polluting fossil
predecessors. The difference is that the carbon in biofuels comes from the air.
Plants absorb CO2 and solar energy to make sugar, a clean, renewable source of
hydrocarbons which can power cars, trucks, ships and jet aircraft, without oil.
Are We Running Out of
We're definitely running out of cheap oil. That's why people
are drilling for oil at unsafe depths. Oil causes economic as well as
environmental problems.The reason is that the growing gap between world supply
and demand will drive the price of oil to levels which people cannot afford. But
our whole transportation infrastructure depends on oil. What to do? Develop
Note the widening gap between supply and
demand in this Energy Information Administration graph. EIA refers to this gap
as "Unidentified Projects", i.e., nobody knows.
What is General Biomass
We develop advanced cellulase
enzymes to convert cellulosic biomass feedstocks to biosugars, which are
the only feasible substitute for oil. Cellulosic
biofuels are the cheapest, fastest way to make renewable liquid fuels
which can drop into our existing transportation infrastructure and start getting
us off of oil.
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