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POET Opens the First Ethanol Plant in Ohio

January 14, 2008 | 3 Comments

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Leipsic, Ohio [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] POET has officially opened its 22nd ethanol production facility and the first in the state of Ohio. POET Biorefining - Leipsic will utilize 22 million bushels of corn from the area to produce 65 million gallons of ethanol and 178,000 tons of Dakota Gold Enhanced Nutrition Distillers Products per year. Ethanol marketing for the facility is provided by POET Ethanol Products and byproducts are marketed by POET Nutrition.

"We are honored to open the first ethanol plant in the Buckeye state and the first in the nation since the historic legislation of the 2007 Energy Bill."

--Jeff Broin, CEO, POET

The plant is the first of three ethanol production facilities that POET will open in Ohio this year. Additional POET plants are currently under construction in Marion and Fostoria.

"We are honored to open the first ethanol plant in the Buckeye state and the first in the nation since the historic legislation of the 2007 Energy Bill," said Jeff Broin, CEO of POET. "This inspiring piece of leadership goes further than we ever have gone before as a nation to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. We are proud to be here today doing everything in our power to continue to move our nation away from Middle-East oil and toward Midwest ethanol."

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william-bunter-51105

January 17, 2008

We hear much from those who vaunt or oppose the growing of different bio fuel plants such as switchgrass, corn, etc, but what also interests me is what happens to the waste products from these plants after they have been converted from A to B:  I am sure that we have a double edged sword here if it could be exploited: Waste not, Want not.

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murray-rose-67503

January 17, 2008

Is there a better alternative than corn for ethanol production? If so, why isnt it being used?

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matthew-reardon-58767

January 24, 2008

<p>Murray, there are a lot of better alternatives to corn all involving cellulosic materials such as switchgrass, elephant grass, woodchips, woodwaste, sawdust, even garbage, leaves, orange peels, hay, etc.</p><p>William, one of the great things about cellulosic ethanol is that there is no waste.  The leftover materials is the woody material known as lignin and lignin can be (will be) fired on site to create a small biomass plant that will actually power the cellulose to sugar and sugar to ethanol processes.</p>

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