Wyoming Bio-Mass

 There’s an old saying…never bring a problem to people without providing a solution. Listen to Governor Butch Otter: “Two years ago I spent 22 million dollars fighting fires in Idaho. All of that stuff was because the forests were overcrowded, we haven’t got good healthy forests, the trees are too crowded and as a result they’re all weakening and the bugs get to them, other diseases get to ‘em. If we could go in, we could create a healthy forest and therefore less fire damage and we could take all of that stuff and produce bio-mass electricity with that.” Well the Governor’e right, but we can also produce ethanol for our cars.

 A company called KL Energy Corp produces ethanol in Wyoming by processing wood waste from wood mill and lumber processing facilities, from feedstock in "standing dead" forests due to insect infestation, or "slash pile" accumulation from private and national forest thinning operations. The wood is converted to ethanol through a proprietary pretreatment technology developed by KL using virtually no acids. This environmentally friendly process is the "greenest" of all the technologies currently in development. KL technology makes it economical to convert woody biomass feedstock into cellulose ethanol using a thermal-mechanical and enzymatic hydrolysis process.