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Checkbiotech.org, June 12, 2008

Alabama plant to begin producing ethanol from waste wood

NOTE: Below is only an excerpt, but you can read the whole article by clicking the link above.

"June 12, 2008

LIVINGSTON, Alab. - In a cavernous, abandoned lumber mill in the Black Belt, a small team of engineers and technicians is assembling a demonstration plant that, as early as this month, will start turning wood scraps into ethanol.

The plant would be one of the first in the country to use a technology called gasification on wood waste. Most ethanol and biodiesel plants use fermentation to turn soybeans or corn into fuel.

If the plant runs as advertised, the company - Gulf Coast Energy - plans to expand on the site with a $90 million commercial-scale plant, which it says will be capable of producing 45 million gallons of ethanol a year."
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If ethanol was produced from waste, I would then consider it a more viable solution. That would be, of course, if the cost to produce it didn't have a larger foot print nor cost more than the value.

I have also heard of them experimenting with human sewage.