Goodyear working on extracting silica from rice husk ash ...
Nov 14, 2014· The cost, of course, is lower. But the bigger aspect is that the energy consumed in extracting silica from the traditional source, which is sand, is much higher. To extract silica from sand, you have to heat the sand up to 1,400 degrees Celsius. We don''t have a plant yet to produce silica from husk ash — only a pilot facility.