Cleveland, Tennessee Based Kudzu Ethanol Preparing For Production

WDEF ^ | Jul 7, 2008 | Joe Legge

[TomServo]

Thanks Stainless!!

[count-your-change]

That negates the very reason for parents to act responsibly. Be a drunk, addict, whatever, don't act with responsibility or judgment, someone some how will swoop in and shield those charges from harm.
Any suggestions on how this divine Child Protective Services Program might work?

[deport]

Seems they are coming out of the woodwork with various methods to supplement the energy supply. Hopefully some of these methods will prove to be economically viable.

A Baytown businessman could hold the solution to the nation's energy crisis

In an economy that has been held hostage by oil prices rapidly approaching the stratosphere, this Baytown-based alternate energy company has found a way to make substantial amounts of crude oil from farm waste.

Now Rivera must convince potential investors that his trade secret - 21 years and $31 million dollars in the making - isn't just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.

The "Rivera Method" - takes such agricultural refuse as cracked soy beans, rice and cotton seed hulls, grain sorghum, milo and jatropha and turns them into bio-crude oil. This crude - or Vertroleum, as Rivera calls it - can then be refined further into everything from gasoline to jet fuel and just about every petrochemical in between.

What's more, Rivera claims that products made from Vertroleum burn at near 100 percent efficiency, leaving behind neither heat nor pollution as proof of the chemical reactions taking place.

[Tax-chick]

Kudzu leaves are also very tasty, and can replace spinach in your daily salad.

But if they're making ethanol out of it, the price will go up, and we'll be back to eating spinach.

[decimon]

Hopefully some of these methods will prove to be economically viable.

Yes. Should the economic viability be just regional then that is fine too. That would still reduce the overall demand for gasoline.

[decimon]

But if they're making ethanol out of it, the price will go up, and we'll be back to eating spinach.

Price go up? Why would you pay for what is growing everywhere?

[Tax-chick]

It was a joke.

[decimon]

It was a joke.

Oops. Sorry.

[wardaddy]

the envirowackbots will whine now about increased soil erosion

[rrrod]

Those of you outside the south have no idea how much we hate kudzu!

[Straight Vermonter]

products made from Vertroleum burn at near 100 percent efficiency, leaving behind neither heat nor pollution as proof of the chemical reactions taking place.

LOL!

[Tax-chick]

That’s okay. I’m known for my unusual approach to humor. We had a late spring here, and the kudzu is just getting to full flourishing. Maybe I can find a convenient patch this week and make a casserole.

[deport]

LOL...........

Sorta my reaction also. My limited experience is that when things burn they create heat as part of the combustion process....

[Roses0508]

The engineer types were for the big generators. I guess they really didn’t know anything about nuclear power plants....although you’d have thought they’d read up a bit!

[Roses0508]

Now, that made me really laugh. I remember watching some institutional types wading through the swampy side of the river, trying to catch, measure and evaluate the frogs....on the theory the plant was mutating them. Personally, I think the frogs were amused...they did a good job of eluding their would-be captors and providing entertainment for the watchers.

[groanup]

Don’t even get me started about kudzu.

[DeaconBenjamin]

I’ve been seeing a lot more goat (ranches?) of late. It may be to service the hispanic community, but it may also be to address the kudzu.

[BluH2o]

Kudzu isn’t worth a damn at preventing erosion. The ground under it dissolves and it grows ever stronger. One story is that it was imported for anti erosion purposes, if that’s the case it was a failure ...

In Japan it serves that purpose very well, perhaps it has to do with the type of soil.

[Figment]

‘In Japan it serves that purpose very well, perhaps it has to do with the type of soil’

Could be the case.If it was good for erosion in the southern USA, it wouldn't be on the eradication list. You couldn't grow this as a crop without displacing corn and soybeans though.Food for fuel is a losing proposition.

[Charlespg]

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