Ethanol plant proposed plans DITCHED.. WTF?

Ross company proposes Beaver Co. ethanol plant..
March 24, 2007 http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_499319.html
A local development group is hoping to tap into the burgeoning ethanol industry by converting an old tin mill site in the Aliquippa Industrial Park, Beaver County, to produce 88 million gallons of corn-based ethanol annually.

The $250 million project is expected to create 70 full-time jobs when it comes on line in 2010, said Eric D. Wallace, president of Consus Ethanol LLC, which does business as Sunnyside Ethanol, LLC, headquartered at 5000 McKnight Road, Ross.
It is the second ethanol plant proposed to be built in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
In December, Commonwealth Renewable Energy Inc. said it completed the $17 million purchase of Sony Corp.'s American Video Glass building in East Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, which it plans to convert into an ethanol production plant to produce about 200 million gallons annually.
Wallace said byproducts from his proposed Beaver County plant would include biodiesel; distillers dry grain, which can be used by farmers as livestock feed; and liquid carbon dioxide, which can be captured and converted into dry ice or used to percolate oil and gas wells.
Ethanol, which is made mostly from corn, can be blended with gasoline to produce a motor fuel. An 85 percent blend, E-85, is sold at some stations in the region. Biodiesel can be blended with petroleum diesel and used in diesel engines with little or no modification.
Wallace said plans call for construction of an on-site coal-fired cogeneration plant to help run the ethanol plant that expects to consume 30 million bushels of corn annually.
The planned ethanol plant would be built at a former Jones & Laughlin tin mill site that has rail and barge access, and can tap the Ohio River to process about 2 million gallons of water daily.
Wallace said the company has an option with developer C.J. Betters Enterprises of Monaca and the Beaver County Corp. for Economic Development to buy 60 acres. The project still must obtain local and state approvals.
"It's a great idea. Alternative fuel sources are needed in the country and it would be a real boost for the city," said Thomas A. Stoner, Aliquippa city administrator.
Several years ago, the company set up shop in the former Jones Brewing Co. building in Smithton, and at one time considered using the brewery to produce ethanol. Jones Brewing Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2000 and closed in January 2002.
"But the capacity is only 10 million gallons, and that's not enough. The land was undermined, and it would not support the tanks," Wallace said.
There are 114 ethanol plants in operation in the United States, capable of producing about 5.6 billion gallons of ethanol annually. Another 78 are under construction and seven are expanding, according to the Renewable Fuels Association in Washington.
Last year, Gov. Ed Rendell introduced a PennSecurity Fuels Initiative, which calls for replacing 900 million gallons of the state's transportation fuels over the next decade with alternative sources, such as ethanol and biodiesel. Rendell said incentives and funding opportunities would be available.
Wallace says he's unafraid of what seems to be a crowded ethanol field and is developing a similar 88 million gallon ethanol plant in Curwensville, Clearfield County. "You have cycles, and right now gasoline and natural gas are expensive. Yes, we're gambling. The rate of return on ethanol isn't attractive now, but what about long-term need for fuel supply? Do you think it will go up or down?" Wallace said.

The whole Idea of building the thing in the first place is to Keep Gasoline prices down..
See how they twist and make up things because they believe we are sedated and dont know wtf is going on here..

Rebuilding Energy Infrastructures is our number one priority, but apparently someone else dont think it is..
Would these be the same people that Voted to have Obama elected?? \

Lets not be fooled by the lack of money.. Money isnt the objection here..
We pay football players millions of dollars to run around and pretend to be a children for entertainment.. GROW THE FUCK UP PEOPLE..
But we have no money for ENERGY RECONSTRUCTION AND INDEPENDENCE..:toetap05:

 

SAYS WHO????

WHERE YOU AT NOW ED??? HELLO????


<wipes ass with terrible towel..

 

Oh, not ethanol, please. It takes more petroleum to refine ethanol than ethanol replaces, and every ear of corn that becomes ethanol is one more that didn't make it onto someone's plate. Ethanol plants spike the cost of corn, making food coen harder to obtain, and the mountains of byproduct waste are absolutly useless. Add to the mess the fact that there just is not enough farmland on the planet to accomodate the ethanol needs that America would have. Ethanol is a placebo solution. It doesn't take care of the problem, but it makes those who know nothing about the problem (not you, necessarily, just the populace in general) think that something is being done.

What I want to see is more mass transit, powered by electricity, and fewer lazy people who won't walk three blocks to get what they need. I had a roommate who needed a ride to the laundromat on the CORNER OF OUR BLOCK because she was too self-conscious to carry a basket of laundry in public. People like this are one of the reasons why we have an energy crisis.

 

In this area , Its called a step in the right direction..
I would prefer more wind power and solar for the low income people to run small appliances and interior lighting..
In fact I have a small solar lighting in my halls its for a driveway.. I just added more wire and modified it for the indoors, it lights up the areas I need to pass through to get to other rooms.
Dont cost anything but really no more lighting than a night light will produce.. Still better than tuning on over-head light just not to trip on things..

 

Ethanol is a foolish dead-end on the road energy independence. Growing food crops to pump into our cars is just plain retarded. We all need to sacrifice some comfort and convenience and DRIVE LESS instead of thinking of alternative ways of continuing to guzzle energy resources

 

Ethanol is the worst idea for alternative energy. Corn has the least amount of cellullose available which is what is needed for ethanol. Hemp is a much better alternative. But we must get away from our mentality that we need a car for transportation. The internal combustion engine killed the urban city and created sprawl, and now we have minimal greenspace. We must rethink how we plan our cities and this will create less dependency on fossil based fuels, and it costs nothing.