What are the benefits of biomass development?
PPI’s proprietary non-food biofuels crops offer three significant benefits: • Environmental Benefits – namely lower land use and agronomic inputs, lower feedstock production and process greenhouse gas emissions, making ethanol from inedible biomass instead of corn, displacement of petroleum, reduced water use in processing and crop production, and, improve stabilization and productivity of marginal lands. • Process Efficiencies – up to 30 % reduction in key production costs to make cellulosic ethanol a viable alternative fuel. • Feedstock production – up to a 50% per acre biomass yield increase, lower cost and higher sales from the same acres for farmers while industrial end-users benefit from a lower cost per ton. There is also a benefit to rural communities as local jobs required for the “seed to end-use” value chain will drive economic renewal.
