Bluefire Renewables, Inc. (fka BFRE)

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Despite claims that Bluefire technology is somehow superior to all other existing methods, they are conspicuously absent from all DOE renewable fuel forward-looking "state of the industry" publications.
http://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/technology-pathways
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/ethanol_fuel_basics.html
http://www.biomassboard.gov/pdfs/national_biofuels_update_2013.pdf

Here is an excellent publication on the current state (2014) and future of ethanol production by the Renewable Fuels Association.

http://www.ethanolrfa.org/page/-/rfa-association-site/Resource%20Center/2014%20Ethanol%20Industry%20Outlook.pdf?nocdn=1

It lists 80-100 ethanol production facilities and has a very detailed discussion of the status and trends in renewable fuels. Neither Bluefire nor acid hydrolysis are mentioned anywhere.

No mention of either on the DOE biofuels web pages (ever since the acid hydrolysis process evaluation papers published in 2007).

How did the entire public sector and private sector miss this technology?

Or was it vetted long ago and dismissed as not economically viable?

There was a pilot plant in Izumi Japan that ceased using the Arkenol process back around 2004. Nothing since then.

Every partner has walked away before committing any funds toward construction of a commercial scale plant.

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