Comstock Inc. (NYSE: LODE) (“Comstock” and the “Company”) today
announced that it is marketing its cellulosic ethanol production
technology for construction of commercial scale facilities, with a
focus on upgrading pre-existing first generation corn ethanol
facilities to convert forestry residuals and other forms of
lignocellulosic biomass into cellulosic ethanol at dramatically
improved yield, efficiency, and cost when compared to corn.
Comstock’s technology efficiently fractionates
wood into purified biointermediates that are uniquely isolated and
free of the inhibitors and contaminants that have frustrated prior
attempts at broadly commercializing cellulosic fuels technologies.
Comstock’s first biointermediate is a purified form of cellulosic
sugar that can be used as a chemically identical “drop-in”
feedstock in corn ethanol facilities to produce about 80 gallons of
advanced cellulosic ethanol per dry ton of woody biomass.
“Using cellulosic sugar as a feedstock will have
extraordinary impacts for corn ethanol producers,” said Corrado De
Gasperis, Comstock’s executive chairman and chief executive
officer. “Woody biomass is a dramatically less expensive and
available feedstock and delivers substantial higher revenue from
significantly higher lifecycle carbon gains, when compared to
corn.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”)
requires and incentivizes compliance with its renewable fuel
standards (“RFS”) by assigning renewable identification numbers
(“RINs”) to each gallon of renewable fuel produced or imported into
the U.S. Different fuel types are assigned different classes of
RINs with different market values based on the degree to which each
fuel type reduces greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions over fossil
petroleum sources. California and various other states have now
also enacted low carbon fuels standards which provide significant
additional incentives. In short, the greater the GHG reduction, the
lower the carbon intensity (“CI”) score, the higher the selling
price of the resulting fuel.
Under current market conditions, our cellulosic
ethanol would have a market value in California of approximately
$6.30 per gallon, as compared to just over $3.00 per gallon for
corn ethanol. Under current market conditions and prices, a typical
100 million gallon corn ethanol producer that upgrades its facility
to produce an additional 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol
would increase revenue by more than 30%, or over $125 million per
year.
“Our goal is to accelerate the commercialization
of decarbonizing technologies,” concluded De Gasperis. “We are
ready to enable dramatic improvements in GHG reductions and ethanol
profitability today, with existing corn-based producers.”
Comstock is evaluating a number of existing first generation
corn ethanol facilities for upgrades to and construction of
co-located commercial scale cellulosic ethanol production.
Additional information is available from Comstock’s business
development group. Please see contact information below.
About ComstockComstock (NYSE:
LODE) innovates technologies that contribute to global
decarbonization and circularity by efficiently converting
under-utilized natural resources into renewable fuels and
electrification products that contribute to balancing global uses
and emissions of carbon. The Company intends to achieve exponential
growth and extraordinary financial, natural, and social gains by
building, owning, and operating a fleet of advanced carbon neutral
extraction and refining facilities, by selling an array of
complementary process solutions and related services, and by
licensing selected technologies to qualified strategic partners. To
learn more, please visit www.comstock.inc.
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Comstock Cellulosic Fuels business development
contact information:
David WinsnessPresident, Cellulosic Fuels
winsness@comstockmining.com |
Chad Michael BlackDirector-Business
Developmentcmblack@comstockmining.com |
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