...Probably the most recognized is ethanol derived from sugar which reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent on average compared to gasoline. That’s the best carbon performance of any biofuel produced at commercial scale...
Bluefire's technology..
The Company has developed significant proprietary improvements to a well-known conversion technology known as Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis such that the process is ready for commercial implementation. The Technology is unique in that, for the first time, it enables widely available cellulosic materials, or more commonly, biomass, to be converted into sugar in an economically viable manner, thereby providing an inexpensive raw material for fermentation or chemical conversion into any of a hundred different specialty and/or commodity chemicals.