{"id":1342,"date":"2005-06-28T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/06\/28\/from-beer-to-biofuels\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T22:27:00","slug":"from-beer-to-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/from-beer-to-biofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"From Beer to Biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/baloghblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/why-syracuse-new-york-is-right-place.html\">his essay<\/a> extolling the virtues of Syracuse, NY, as a location that could readily adopt to the challenges of peak oil, Steve Balogh made mention of the area&#8217;s beer-brewing capacity as a mark in it favor.  It turns out that Syracuse breweries can do more than just produce beer, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyaccess.com\/rea\/news\/story?id=33833\">this article<\/a> from RenewableEnergyAccess.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A defunct beer brewery north of Syracuse, New York will soon start churning out more booze. This time, it&#8217;s a clean fix for cars all over the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>A new $157 million dollar ethanol production facility called Northeast Biofuels (NEB) will be one of the largest ethanol producers in the nation and part of a growing shift in the biofuels industry beyond the traditional Midwest&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Developers and the project&#8217;s supporters alike believe the new facility, located at the Riverview Business Park, will be a major part of ethanol&#8217;s expansion beyond the Midwest corn-states. NEB estimates to use 41 million bushels of corn, much of it to be purchased from New York farmers, to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year. The ethanol will be marketed for use primarily in New York State and the Northeast as a clean burning, oil saving gasoline additive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the overall value of ethanol and biofuels for reducing the US&#8217; dependence on foreign oil is still under debate (<a href=\"http:\/\/commonsblog.org\/archives\/000466.php\">this post<\/a> from the Commons Blog, for instance, brings up some important questions about the energy used to produce ethanol), home-grown fuels, for now, can certainly jump-start our move to cleaner energy sources.  And we&#8217;ve certainly got to appreciate these developers&#8217; ability to look at a defunct brewery and see an opportunity like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ethanol\" rel=\"tag\">ethanol<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/biofuels\" rel=\"tag\">biofuels<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Syracuse\" rel=\"tag\">Syracuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jmcstras.netw6000.hop.clickbank.net\">Learn How to Make Your Own Electricity with Biodiesel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago in his essay extolling the virtues of Syracuse, NY, as a location that could readily adopt to the challenges of peak oil, Steve Balogh made mention&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Beer to Biofuels &#8226; 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