Remember Reynolds, Ind.? Gov. Mitch Daniels in 2005 touted it as BioTown USA, the state's first project to make a community "produce enough energy to be self-sufficient." It hasn't quite gone as planned:
But progress has been slow in the five years since in the town about 25 miles north of Lafayette. A $2.7 million greenhouse featuring rotating wheels covered with algae serves as the wastewater treatment facility and is the most visible sign of progress toward the BioTown goal. But the excitement that surrounded Daniels' 2005 launch of the effort has died down as several other proposed projects dried up.
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The goal of BioTown is to increase the town's access to ethanol and other biofuels and transform animal waste into electricity and natural gas.
Algae, animal waste and ethanol. Hell of a plan. And we still refuse to give up on the Green Myth. Tippecanoe County may be added to neighboring counties Benton and White as a location for gigantic wind-farm operations.
This just in: The Universtiy of Wisconsin team has won this year's Rube Goldberg contest at Purdue by constructing a machine that takes 120 steps to dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand.
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Obviously the U of W team has the qualifications wrapped up for public service, the process they used would be a natural for government application.
As for the bio-Town, just another spectacular example of well "green" projects actually work. Algore would be proud.
I still say it's easier and more efficient to just set fire to huge piles of $100 bills.
...And at the rate our dollar is being devalued, Tim's idea might well be the ONLY recourse.
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