Agriculture committee  I promise not to give you a long lesson in chemistry, but once you've taken the cellulose out of straw and turned it into glucose, i.e., sugar, you don't have to ferment and distill it to make alcohol; you can turn it into polymers to make plastics. That's the bio-economy we're t

Agriculture committee  Actually, you probably should ask the fellow sitting immediately to your left. He'll have the answer as well as I have. Fundamentally, we would never intend to remove.... For example, in western Canada you have clay soil zones in the southern part, brown soil zones as you head

Agriculture committee  As many of you may know, Iogen Corporation has a demonstration plant here in Ottawa. By the way, Mr. Chair, any members of the committee are more than welcome to come out for a tour. It is the largest and only operating cellulose-to-ethanol demonstration plant in the world. We'

Agriculture committee  He can do biodiesel, and I'll try the one on cellulose. If you're talking about wide-scale distribution on the ethanol side of cellulosic biomass-derived ethanol, I think large-scale distribution is post-2015.

Agriculture committee  I'd like to comment about Canada. They're much more aggressive in terms of at least the targets they've set, and whether they achieve them is a different matter, but they have established targets in the United States for 16 billion gallons. That's a substantial number. It's act

Agriculture committee  First of all, let me distinguish between position and facts. It's not the CRFA's position that first-generation ethanol was not responsible for food prices going up. I think the facts bear that out. If you have any doubt about that, ask yourself why the price of rice went up, the

Agriculture committee  To the extent that ethanol is being derived from corn and allowing farmers to earn more money, that's a good thing. Take that nine billion gallons out of the market in the U.S. and replace it with gasoline, and suddenly there will be nine billion gallons worth of corn ethanol and

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. I could be brief and just say court à moyen terme, but I think the model for commercialization of next-generation cellulosic ethanol technology is large corporations collaborating with governments. I don't think you're going to see this technology co