From Kicking Tires...the blog.

"..........Once we can turn cellulose into ethanol, the corn can be left for the food market and the whole rest of the corn plant can go on to produce what's called cellulosic ethanol. Coskata has developed such a process, which converts cellulose, plus a whole lot more."

This is great news for the price of produce. 


Coskata website

{Where the Coskata process differs most from other cellulosic methods is that it's not limited to plant matter. The gasifier gladly accepts shredded car tires, municipal waste, plastics that are otherwise unrecyclable — basically anything organic and dry. The tires are favored because they're carbon-rich, dense and widely available. Tobey said producing five gallons of ethanol would take roughly three tires, 50 pounds of wood or 100 pounds of baled hay or straw. The flexibility, however, is what makes this process so promising. It can be applied virtually anywhere, regardless of the waste stream. Roe said the plants can be built near feedstock sources, perhaps intercepting trash on its way to a landfill, as a way to decrease the economic and environmental cost of transporting it.}
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Currently we are creating enough waste in the USA to equal the entire land mass of the North American Continent each year.

{In 2006, US residents, businesses, and institutions produced more than 251 million tons of MSW, which is approximately 4.6 pounds of waste per person per day.}  From Municipal Solid Waste

{Currently under construction is a 40,000-gallon-per-year demonstration plant that late this year or in early 2009 will begin supplying GM with ethanol. Coskata will also work with ICM, the company responsible for roughly half of the current corn-based-ethanol plants, to build a commercial facility capable of producing 50 to 100 million gallons per year. Its product should be in consumers' cars early in 2011.}