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At 05:13 PM 9/11/2006 -0400, LWheeler45@no.address wrote: >Commissioners clear the path for innovative commercial biomass plant > >The five-member Florida Public Service >Commission (PSC) has taken a critical step to >further development of the worldâ??s first >commercial-scale power plant fueled with crops grown on site. > >The Commissioners voted to approve a petition >for Progress Energy Florida (Progress) to buy >energy produced by the Florida Biomass Energy Group, LLC (Florida Biomass). > >Florida Biomass plans to build and operate an >electric generating plant on a 15,000-acre farm >near Lake Okeechobee. The plant will produce >power from a tall, bamboo-like grass. The crop >will be grown and harvested in a continuous >cycle and converted into a liquid fuel that will >be used in a traditional combined cycle generator. Mayhap. But I've been looking at numbers for corn/ethanol, and the fuel value of the ethanol is only about 1/2 that of the corn from which its made. It would seem that a power plant would be much better off just burning the corn (as some do). Something fundamentally different could be on offer here, but I remain to be convinced..... am Alan Muller, Executive Director Green Delaware Box 69 Port Penn, DE 19731 USA (302)834-3466 fax (302)836-3005 greendel@no.address www.greendel.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GreenYes" group. To post to this group, send email to GreenYes@no.address To unsubscribe from this group, send email to GreenYes-unsubscribe@no.address For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/GreenYes -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- |
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