{"id":842,"date":"2009-06-18T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/18\/ottawa-the-cellulosic-ethanol-capital-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:39:00","slug":"ottawa-the-cellulosic-ethanol-capital-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/18\/ottawa-the-cellulosic-ethanol-capital-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa, the Cellulosic Ethanol Capital of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/macewen-725439.jpeg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 190px;height: 287px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/macewen-725433.jpeg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;ve been away for a couple weeks, and am catching up on what&#8217;s been going on in the North Country.  <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/13\/shells-cellulosic-first-is-more-of-a-second\/?hp\">It seems Ottawa is a world leader in getting cellulosic ethanol to service stations and into cars.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cellulosic ethanol is a fancy way of saying ethanol made from some other plant than corn &#8211; wheat straw, switchgrass, miscanthus, young softwood trees, etc.  It&#8217;s one of the Great Hopes of the biofuels revolution because it&#8217;s making fuel out of things we <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">don&#8217;t<\/span> eat.  (The big downside of corn ethanol is it drives up the price of corn worldwide, hurting everyone from dairy farmers to <a href=\"http:\/\/technocrat.net\/d\/2007\/2\/3\/14305\/index.html\/\">Mexicans who can&#8217;t afford tortillas<\/a>.)  Many agricultural experts here in the North Country believe cellulosic ethanol can be a growth industry here because our climate grows grasses really well.<\/p>\n<p>Have anyone out there filled up on cellulosic ethanol in  Ottawa, at the gas station on Marivale Rd. or via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macewen.ca\/\">MacEwen Petroleum<\/a>, as mentioned in the above article?  It&#8217;s a 10% blend, they say, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been away for a couple weeks, and am catching up on what&#8217;s been going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}