Pacific Ethanol, Inc. is a publicly traded business (NASDAQ: PEIX) that is engaged in the development, production and advertising of renewable fuels in the United States. The company has 5 ethanol plants below construction on the West Coast with anticipated capacity of 200 million gallons. In addition, the company's wholly owned subsidiary is a single of the largest marketers of ethanol and generated in excess of $82 million in sales final year.

What is graphite anyway? Used in renewable energy storage systems?

According to a U.S. Congressional - Executive Commission on China, which held a series of Issues Roundtables in late 2004, it was estimated that 12 Chinese mine workers die for each and every million tons of coal made. Most are killed by methane gasoline explosions whilst inside the coal mines. China Company Weekly reported in July 2000, "To stop gas explosions, China emits 6 billion cubic meters of methane from mines annually, seriously polluting the atmosphere..." Final year, instruments on the world's largest environment-monitoring satellite, the European Space Agency's Envisat, revealed the world's largest amount of nitrogen dioxide was hanging over Beijing and northeastern China. Simply because the nation emits more methane from its coal mining than any other coal creating country, China pollutes the earth's atmosphere with about a single-third of the total annual emissions of methane. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, methane traps heat twenty occasions a lot more than carbon dioxide, which impacts international warming.

Graphite is classified as a semi metal. It can be referred to as black led for its dark soft look and texture. Graphite is formed in metamorphic rock by heat and pressure although other sorts of rock like igneous rock are formed by volcanoes and meteorites hitting the earth. Battery grade graphite consists of hexagonally shaped crystalline flakes which are flat. The graphite employed in pencils happens as veins in rock formations that resemble a coal mine for the big quantity of graphite that is extracted from these kind of deposits. Sadly they are no good for batteries and neither are amorphous graphite deposits. This ought to all be deemed when looking to invest in this market. Which ones will win the power industries votes, and which graphite deposits will be necessary if their is ever a shortage of pencils?

Still, for your company to survive and grow, you need capital. Your savings, credit cards, loans and investments from family members and buddies can take you only so far.

Because January, the stock of Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) has improved almost 400% and currently trades at a market valuation in excess of $1 billion. Why all the investor excitement?

A net-zero creating consumes no more energy than it produces.