Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol

gnick writes to mention Wired is reporting that an Illinois startup is claiming they can make ethanol from most any organic material for around $1/gallon. Coskata, backed by General Motors and several other investors, uses a process that is bacteria based instead of some of the other available methods. The bacteria processes organic material that is fed into the reactor and secretes ethanol as a waste product.

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Re:Mr Fusion?

[JebusIsLord]

Angry AND pedantic... those are some sexy characteristics. You single?

Re:You're ignoring the carbon footprint

[Charcharodon]

Personally I'm looking forward to all the new places in the ocean to sail and scuba dive, such as Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, etc.

All we are doing is returning the Earth to it's natural state before all those meddlesome plants inprisoned all the poor helpless carbon in the ground. That's what all the tree huggers seem to long for anyway, a return to the days of the Earth without people. Well those days included things like, no winter, and the ocean being considerably farther inland than it is now, so what are you all crying about then?

Re:Great, but

[ArcherB]

Not a half bad translation, except for this part:

The health of the environment must be sacrificed for some people to scrape by day to day. They work damn hard at miserable jobs just to give their children bread on the table. Life isn't easy and he resents people who want to teach lessons and force him to piss his daughter's college fund into the gas tank. The environment is in no danger. Those that keep telling me about it are not doing anything about themselves, except telling ME how to act. That tells me that the likes of AlGore don't believe it. They just want to control the way I live. If Al Gore stops flying in private planes, starts using the sail as his primary means of transportation and moves out of his huge-ass house and into a 100% organic, carbon neutral home, them I'll pay attention.

And even if the environment were in danger... what is more important; freedom, or the environment? If you say the environment, why? Why is the environment more important than terrorism, for example? No one here wants to give up their freedom to fight terrorism, why is the environment more of a problem? I've seen people die from terrorism. Global warming hasn't killed anyone. Do I need to break out a Ben Franklin quote here and substitute "cool air" for "security"?