Keokuk, Iowa biodiesel plant gets revved up
Tri-City Energy in Keokuk, Iowa, is an energy company that is running wild on biodiesel. John Rothgeb, Tri-City Energy's general manager, told the Daily Gate City that things are moving at "warp speed". The reason is that Tri-City Energy's biodiesel production facility has gone from production concept to start-up company to turn-key biodiesel plant in less than a year. Tri-City Energy itself is just three months old. The biodiesel plant would be even closer to completion had Homeland Security not held up some of the plant's components at customs for a month. The plant will start making biodiesel in September. The company is also involved in building a biodiesel plant in Altoona.
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[Source: Daily Gate City]
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Howard Lee Harkness 11:58AM (8/21/2006)
With new biodiesel plants springing up just about everywhere, this sort of thing is not even going to be newsworthy in the fairly near future.
One fallout of this trend is that the folks who have been heretofore getting their feedstock WVO for free from the local restaurants are going to have a harder time finding any, and will probably have to start paying for it, as restaurant owners start to realize that they can get back a substantial fraction of what they paid for it. At my last Lions Club meeting, the program presenter from the Plano Environmental Services Division mentioned that there was a biodiesel manufacturer in this area that was rapidly gobbling up all the WVO that the city could collect. It won't be long before folks discover that they can bypass the city and get *paid* for WVO disposal.
When that happens, WVO is going to be a thing of the past. Good thing, too. Right now, it is a significant environmental pollutant.
Now if only some similar economic benefit could be found in the rest of the stuff that ends up in the city dump...
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