Cleveland, Tennessee Based Kudzu Ethanol Preparing For Production

I'd very much like to see their cost basis for $1.30 per gallon. You can barely achieve that with corn at the moment which has none of the costly cellulose breakdown processes that would be involved in kudzu to ethanol conversion.

I can almost guarantee you that significant government subsidizing (through tax breaks and loans) is the only thing making this appear to be a profitable process. Food based ethanol startups flop all the time, and they have a much lower cost of production.

Now that corn is <$4 a bushel, kudzu would be even more impractical and uncompetitive. Once someone figures out a cost effective way of breaking down the cellulose, then kudzu and switchgrass will change the world. Until then they are just a way to milk the government for a couple of years hoping for a break-thru.

I've wrote the book "Kudzu in America" - and have spoken to groups for years literally begging some clever captialist to develop a use for kudzu like they do in Korea and Japan.

We import tons of kudzu in food and useful items such as wallpaper. Please, some bright person, put a stop to this and get rich in the process.

My book "Kudzu in America" can be previewed on my Website http://www.kudzukingdom.com and on http://www.amazon.com. It's full of great ideas - may be the answer to someone's unemployment!

wel said

I totally agree with Michael. If the government OR the oil companies gets ahold of any plans for cheaper or better gas, then they're going to go even more psychotically retarded then they already are now, and jack those prices up also.
There's a documentary called "Who Killed the Electric Car?", which goes into detail about the battery operated car. This documentary had proved that the electrcity it would cost to recharge your charge wouldn't make a significant difference on your electric bill. They had built a charge station, which would cost about half the price of gas. That was a few years ago, so it would probly cost about $1-$1.50 to charge a car, versus $4 a gallon of gas.
So who really killed the electric car? They'll say different, but I say it was the greedy government, and the oil companies!

Word of caution. I think it's great when people can invent creative ways to beat monopolistic business practices, but I hope everyone sees that any alternative fuel placed back into the hands of the oil companies will only give them more power. Don't give them the satisfaction of eating up your creative inventions. Let's invent a plethura of alternative energies, but let them be manifested through new companies. That's how healthy competition works for the good of everyone.

Michael