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Cellulosic Ethanol: A Fuel For The Future?
By Mr Ethanol | August 14, 2007
CNET News:
In the pine forests of rural Georgia, Devon Dartnell sees a path into the global fuel economy.
As the biomass program manager for the Georgia Forestry Commission, Dartnell is impatiently waiting for construction to begin next month of a plant that will convert forestry wastes into ethanol, a car fuel.
The facility is an important test to see whether lumber and agricultural by-products, rather than corn or sugar cane, are an economically viable “feedstock” for ethanol production. Behind the plant is Range Fuels, a start-up headed by a former Apple executive and financed by famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.
Dartnell hopes this project, eligible for up to $76 million in U.S. Department of Energy grants, will lead to many more plants–and a new industry–in the state.
“This gives us energy security and it keeps all the money in-state,” said Dartnell. “Today, if we buy a tank of gasoline, a lot of money ends up with the oil reserve owners and refiners, and it’s spread all around the world.”
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