[tt] America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

[Brian Atkins]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/15/2111229

"The state of Georgia just granted Range Fuels a permit to create the first 
cellulosic ethanol plant in America. Cellulosic ethanol produces ethanol from 
cellulose, which all plants have, instead of from sugar, which is only abundant 
in food crops. Corn ethanol only produces 1.3 units of energy for every unit of 
energy that goes into growing the crop and converting the sugar to ethanol. 
Cellulosic ethanol can produce as much as 16 units of energy for every one unit 
of energy put into the process. The new plant will be online in 2008 and aims to 
produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year."

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Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/