Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (68968)	5/26/2006 10:16:10 AM
From: Ron	Respond to of 361390

Visits to the North Carolina mountains convinces me that's going on already :) Which reminds me, anyone interested in southern intellectual throwback rants and rages would probably enjoy Hal Crowther's book "Cathedrals of Kudzu."

To: TigerPaw who wrote (68968)	5/26/2006 10:20:24 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361390

gene-splice THC into Kudzu... The early books on growing talked about "secret grass"; grafting hops on to marijuana rootstock. Cellulosic ethanol From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cellulosic ethanol is a blend of normal ethanol that can be produced from a great diversity of biomass including waste from urban, agricultural, and forestry sources. There are at least two methods of production of cellulosic ethanol—enzymatic hydrolysis and synthesis gas fermentation. Neither process generates toxic emissions when it produces ethanol. The technology is very new and exists in pilot configurations where testing is ongoing. According to US Department of Energy studies conducted by the Argonne Laboratories of the University of Chicago, one of the benefits of cellulosic ethanol is that it reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 85% over reformulated gasoline. By contrast, sugar-fermented ethanol reduces GHG emissions by 18% to 29% over gasoline. In April 2004, Iogen Corporation, a Canadian biotechnology firm, became the first business to commercially sell cellulosic ethanol. The primary consumer thus far has been the Canadian government, which, along with the United States government (particularly the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory), has invested millions of dollars into assisting the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. en.wikipedia.org Hemp as Biomass for Energy fuelandfiber.com