Bell Bioenergy to produce ‘wonderfuel’ at Fort Stewart
August 24, 2008 at 6:07 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThe man who invented powdered peanut butter has inked a deal with the U.S. Dept. of Defense to produce oil and gasoline out of our waste.
J.C. Bell, an agricultural scientist in Tifton whom we’ve written about previously on Fresh Loaf, will build a pilot facility at Fort Stewart and several other military bases around the country to convert trash and biomass into fuel by using cloned bacteria found in — ahem — a cow’s hindquarters.
Read all about it here.
(Hat tip to Rogue109 at Peach Pundit)
August 24th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
America is in an inventive turmoil not seen since the dawn of the industrial age when every tinkerer had a garage and a dream of being the next Marconi, Ford, or Wright brother. You cannot pick up a rural Georgia paper without reading about another farmer with a scheme to make biofuel.
I believe my northern neighbor J.C. Bell has the credibility to pull it off.
J.C. inspired me to make fun 0f our farmers and their schemes check out: On Golden Pond - Gasoline Pissing Pond Scum.
Merrill Guice
Valdosta, GA