[Gasification] Cellulosic ethanol

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Harmon

See:

http://www.gulfofmaine.org/times/spring97/page5a.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_278/ai_30243480
http://waterindustry.org/Water-Facts/aqua-clean.htm

Uses cat tails to clean up after a sewage treatment plant...

Best wishes,

Kevin

Harmon Seaver wrote:
> Ed Woolsey wrote:
>   
>> That�s one idea Harmon.
>> Converting X million semi-urban acres into cattail producing environments
>> might be a little disruptive to the current and planned local land uses. I
>> could be wrong but I bet it will be easier to grow and harvest 5 million
>> acres of switchgrass or some type of herb biomass than procure land, permit
>> and construct a million acres of cattail ponds...though I like cattail
>> ponds. 
>>     
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>   It's really not that difficult a problem, since we already know that
> the current sewage treatment facilities are not, for the most part,
> doing a proper job of cleaning the water. And since governments have the
> power of eminent domain, getting the land to build them won't be that
> hard, especially seeing that large portions of that "semi-urban" land,
> i.e., suburbs, will be (are already in many places) turned into
> ghosttowns due to the combination of high energy prices and the
> sub-prime mortgage mess, that idea will become much more attractive.
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