New Biofuel Plant in Missouri
by Michael Graham Richard, Gatineau, Canada on 10.27.05
These days, new biofuel production projects are being announced and built posthaste in the American Midwest. Not long after the Iowa plant that was mentioned here a couple of months ago (it should be the largest one in the world with an annual production of 37.5 million gallons of biodiesel), comes a new plant in Mexico (the city in Missouri, not the country) that will produce 30 million gallons of biodiesel each year. The current US production Missouri production of biodiesel is 25 million gallons a year, and five years ago it was 500,000 gallons, so the recent and projected increases in capacity are quite significant. There are two other biofuel plants that are being proposed in Missouri, and some projects for Minnesota too. Most, if not all, of the biodiesel produced in these plants will be made with soybeans. (Thanks to reader Paul Reise for the tip.) ::Biodiesel industry breaks ground in Mexico
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Michael, over at Biodiesel.org they say the production capacity is 180 million gallons of biodiesel a year in the US. So when you say 25 million gallon biodiesel number is that US sales of the product? And if that's the answer to the difference, where are we sending the rest of it? I hate how all the numbers never seem to add up. The article you reference says that the soybean to biodiesel energy conversion gives 27% more energy out than was put in, but once again the biodiesel people say that the number is closer to 1 to 3.2. So who is telling the truth?
I took the numbers from the article. They don't say clearly what they are for. I assumed they were for the US, but now that I reread it, they could be for Missouri. If the 180 mil figure is exact, that would make sense.
180 mil gallons/year is 4,285,000 barrels/year. That's 11,773 barrels a day, which isn't that much. That would make sense.
Thanks!