Bluefire Renewables, Inc. (fka BFRE)

[richbob]

Pennys, you are right about that, as you know me from another message board. I did own BFRE until last year, but am waiting now for final financing news before deciding to repurchase BFRE. Ethanol is here to stay, in fact Valero bought several large corn-ethanol plants a few years ago to make their own blends of ethanol/gasoline.

DuPont is developing a cellulosic ethanol process ( using corn stover, or corn stalks) using enzymes to extract sugars from the organic raw material, while Bluefire uses concentrated acid to extract the sugars( which is then converted into ethanol). Based on info reported on the BFRE website, their process seems to be very efficient and fast, and could ultimately prove be a better process for making cellulosic ethanol.

This may not be clear, however, until the BFRE plant is running and reporting on productivity. So, we need to wait for the complete financing to come, for plant construction, and then for some period of production before we will know the true advantages of the BLuefire process. This may be well worth the wait!