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Converting Beetle-Killed Trees Into Ethanol
By Mr Ethanol | January 30, 2008
Daily Green:
The mountain pine beetle has been ravaging Colorado’s forests, leaving 1.5 million acres of dead and dying lodgepole pines. Now, an $88 million project hopes to make some lemonade out of those lemons, reports the Rocky Mountain News.
Now, Canadian companies Lignol Innovations and Suncor Energy plan to build Colorado’s first cellulosic ethanol plant, which would convert beetle-kill and other wood residues into motor fuel. When it gets up in running in demonstration stage, the plant would process 100 tons of wood residue per day, yielding 2 million gallons of ethanol a year.
The proposal has received support from the federal government, and will reportedly receive $30 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. The plant, to be completed by 2012, could be built in Commerce City. It was one of four proposed bio-refineries across the country that have been slated to receive $114 million from the DOE…
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