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Untitled Page Published: November 12, 2009 10:01 AM



BlueFire Ethanol, continued ...

"We are honored and applaud the Obama administration and the Department of Energy for their continued support of the biofuels industry,” says Arnold Klann, CEO, BlueFire Ethanol. “We are very optimistic that the DOE will consider the enormous benefits of BlueFire Ethanol's technology during Part Two of this selection process.

"It's programs like the DOE loan guarantee that enable first-of-its-kind technologies to be in a position to secure the necessary funding to move forward and help provide much-needed energy alternatives to petroleum," continues Klann.

BlueFire Ethanol recently announced its second commercial cellulosic ethanol plant will be located in Fulton, Mississippi. The project will allow BlueFire to utilize green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant that will be designed to produce nearly 18 million gallons of ethanol per year. BlueFire expects to announce a third project facility in the near future.

BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. was established to develop a commercially ready, patented and proven Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology Process for the profitable conversion of cellulosic waste materials ("green waste") to ethanol, a viable alternative to gasoline. It is the cellulose-to-ethanol company worldwide with demonstrated production of ethanol from urban trash (post-sorted MSW), rice and wheat straws, wood waste and other agricultural residues.

BlueFire is one of four companies awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Energy under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to construct cellulosic biorefinery production facilities. BlueFire's biorefineries will be located near markets with high demand for ethanol and will use locally available biomass.

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