Cellulosic Ethanol In Georgia

[customsawyer]

The plant is going up in Soperton as Phil stated and the rest goes along with the rest of what you guys are talking about.
#1. The town of Soperton is the home town of Hugh Gillis who was one of our senators for alot of years, anyway that family has had a hand in the state politics for a long time. I am not saying that they didn't do a good job or that they are bad people I just think that had something to do with where the plant got put.
#2. I read in the paper that the plant was going to cost $240,000,000.00 just to get it up and running. The first thing the state did was give them $82,000,000.00 to help with the building of the plant. Now if the plant actually gets up and running and is able to do what it claims it will be a great boost to the economy of this whole state. As long as the plant does what it says then I am not really against the helping them to get the plant off the ground as the state will make that back and then some, but I am starting to have doubts about it running at all much less how long they have been holding on to the state money getting intrest and such. Just makes you sit back and take along look at the whole thing.

[WDH]

I hear that the enzymes required to make wood cellulose into ethanol are expensive and not readily available to supply a full scale plant.  I guess we will see.

[Woodcarver]

I've read, too, WDH, that there hasn't been an enzyme identified that is suitable for the  production of cellulosic enthanol on a commercial scale. Until one is found building a plant may be putting the cart before the horse. 

[DanG]

They're trying to develop this technology in order to utilize the huge glut of surplus pine pulpwood in the area.  If it fails, they may start making paper and cardboard out of it to replace all the plastic we won't have when the oil runs out.