The Next Big Fuel Crop: Eucalyptus
It's the “Fat Boy of Feedstocks,” says Jim Imbler, CEO of Zeachem, which hopes to use the trees to produce fuel.
Koalas love it. California park rangers rue the day it came to the U.S. And someday, your car may run on it.
Ethanol makers are increasingly becoming interested in using eucalyptus as a feedstock, says James Imbler, CEO of Zeachem, particularly in ethanol-happy Brazil. Zeachem, which will start producing fuel in 2010, wants to sell fuel both in the U.S. and Brazil.
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