Well, Deanna, Bluefire has based their whole technology and business planning on using free, or very low cost, raw materials such as waste products and organic trash. In the case of China's CTG Company, it is expected to use trashed organic materials. In the case of the Fulton, MS plant, it will be wood chips and related residue from the timber industry. These materials are about as low cost as is possible, and nothing grown by planting/harvesting on good soil available to other crops, can come close to the these costs.
Furthermore, China has an increasing interest in reducing their trash materials, and in producing energy and gasoline by low-polluting methods. For these reasons, I expect that China may help with that final leg of financing the Fulton plant, in order to verify the viability of the Bluefire ethanol process before committing to their own plants using Bluefire's technology( concentrated acid hydrolysis using cellulosic raw materials).
Therefore, I am expecting some truly exciting news to be announced sometime this year, that should start a long climb in the BFRE stock price!
