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Changing the Game -- Coskata's efficient, affordable and flexible ethanol conversion process has significant advantages over alternative approaches:

     Efficient

• Microorganisms are specific to ethanol production - Proprietary microorganisms do what syngas conversion via chemical catalysis cannot, which is produce predominately ethanol. Extremely energy efficient, Coskata microorganisms can extract almost the entire energy value available in the incoming syngas stream, producing more than 100 gallons of ethanol per dry ton of input material.
• Environmentally superior - The Coskata process reduces carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 84% when input materials such as grass, agricultural waste or woodchips are used (Argonne National Laboratory). The Coskata process has no back-end solid waste to dry and handle like enzymatic approaches, and water and wastewater treatment requirements are low due to significant water recycle and energy conservation. The Coskata process uses less than one gallon of fresh water per gallon of ethanol produced, versus 3-5 for corn, and as much as 7 gallons of water per gallon of ethanol for enzymatic routes.

• Simple and energy positive design - Coskata's process can produce up to 7.7 times more energy than what is used in making the ethanol. Corn-derived ethanol produces approximately 1.3 times the energy required (Argonne National Laboratory). 

     Affordable

•    Lowest cost target in the industry - Coskata's process delivers the next-generation of ethanol at the lowest cost target in        the industry - under US $1.00 per gallon. 

     Flexible

• Enzyme independent - Not reliant on expensive enzymes or chemicals, Coskata's pre-treatment costs are significantly lower than any non-gasification based technology available today, and do not require a chemical catalyst to produce ethanol
• Feedstock independent - Virtually any carbon-containing input materials can be converted to syngas, including energy crops such as switchgrass and miscanthus; wood chips, forestry products, corn stover, bagasse and other typical agricultural wastes; municipal waste and industrial organic waste like petroleum coke.
• Geographic flexibility - With feedstock flexibility, Coskata can build plants in almost any country around the globe.  Coskata will be able to reduce dependence on foreign oil in regions of the world such as North America, Latin America, Asia, and Australia.