Will mysterious Cello Energy produce 70 Mgy of cellulosic ethanol next year, or 20 Mgy, or produce at all?

In Alabama, Greentech Media is reporting on Cello Energy, one of the quietest of the cellulosic ethanol companies, that received $12.5 million from Khosla Ventures and, according to the EPA, will be producing up to 70 Mgy of ethanol from waste biomass by 2010.

The company itself has not given any guidance that it would exceed 20 Mgy in its “startup phase” and did not give time frames in a story in a local Alabame paper in February. The company’s technology uses a metal catalyst and a gasifcation process to convert biomass, plastics and tires into a diesel equivalent.

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