Zenergy has no plants, no biofuel, no business. It plans, according to SEC files, to sell stock to finance its first plant in California. But a California plant is just poor planning on Zenergy management's part.
California has the highest cost in water usage to produce a liter of ethanol. California is also experiencing a water shortage that is expected to get worst. The state will likely not allow such water intensive projects.
The results show that there is a wide variation in EWe between states ranging from 5 to 2138 L L−1. As a general trend, the EWe increases from the East to the West and from the Midwest to the Southwest regions of the U.S. (Figure 2). Among the 19 ethanol-producing states in 2007, Ohio shows the lowest EWe of 5 L L−1, whereas California has the highest EWe of 2138 (Table 2 and Table S2 in the Supporting Information).