Dan, thanks for your question on Enerkem’s process which can be a little difficult to decipher. Enerkem has developed a multi-product technology capable of using multiple feedstocks which means that our technology platform is flexible both in the inputs it can use (municipal solid waste, used telephone poles, agricultural and forest residues, etc) and its output. Enerkem is currently and primarily focusing on ethanol as the end product given the high demand for this product in North America (RFS mandate). However, along the way (during the sequential catalysis conversion process from syngas to ethanol) it also produces other intermediate alcohols such as methanol, acetates and acetic acid. Any one of these green products can be set as the “end product” if warranted by market demand. It is also possible to build on Enerkem’s technology platform to produce other fuels such as green gasoline and synthetic diesel for examples. Ultimately, Enerkem’s insight is to have developed a technology platform that can adapt to both environmental (eg. waste reduction) and market conditions and giving it a significant competitive advantage.

Please Marie-Helene Labrie, be more specific regarding just what comes out the back end pipe from Enerkem’s gas-to-liquids project using some sort of copper-based catalyst to convert the synthesis gas. The world of next-generation biofuels is really complex when investors try to interpret the technologies being employed or the feedstocks to be converted or lastly to understand just what fuel(s) are going to be introduced into the transportation fueling system. Thank you.

Thank you.

Dan Fitzsimmons
NYC