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Lowndes Student Finds Fuel Alternative
By Mr Ethanol | April 18, 2008
WALB-TV:
Georgia forests produce millions of tons of biomass every year.
It’s regarded as useless, but one South Georgia student thinks the waste could be the key to more alternative fuels in the state.
So when Governor Sonny Perdue issued a challenge, Lowndes High Senior Nicholas Worley stepped up.
“It was a challenge to agriculturists to solve the energy crisis we are having here in Georgia.”
And he thinks he may have found a new way to ease pain at the pump.
He worked with a professor at UGA to turn waste forest biomass, “That’s tree tops, underbrush of the forest, stuff that’s left over from logging,” Worley says.
Into ethanol.
“The good thing about Nick’s project is he’s taking the waste stuff. It’s not the wood fibers itself He’s taking what’s not used to make into ethanol which is definitely going to be beneficial,” says Lowndes Ag Teacher James Corbett.
“The way gas is now. We have all this waste sitting around. Why not use it?” Worley adds. More.
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