Cheap Biofuel From Tyres

General Motors Corp. is planning to produce biofuel from garbage at a cost of less than a dollar a gallon. The company has formed a partnership with Illinois-based Coskata Inc. which has developed a way to make ethanol from practically any renewable source, including old tyres and plant waste.

The process is said to be a significant improvement over corn-base ethanol because it uses far less water and energy and does not divert food into fuel.
The schedule is for Coskata to have a pilot plant up and running towards the end of this year and the fuel will be used on GM test vehicles.

“We will have our first commercial-scale plant making 50 to 100 million gallons of ethanol running in 2011,” Coskata chief Bill Roe is quoted as saying.