From the Toronto Star.
http://www.thestar.com/article/171058"It's a model that could be repeated, in terms of localizing the production of energy," he says. "For example, you could put one of these in the Holland Marsh (about 50 kilometres north of Toronto) and use the waste from vegetables that don't go to market.
"We have the ability, through small complexes in rural Ontario, to produce 50 per cent of our electricity requirements at a tenth the cost of a centralized (power) plant ... That's what they did in Europe. We've just got to think outside of the box with these things."
Hard to digest: The idea alone of producing ethanol out of sweet potatoes, sorghum and millet has legs when one considers the controversy around corn. Not just because of the poor energy equation when using corn, but also due to fears that dramatically expanding ethanol production will eat up food supplies and drive up prices.
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Still, putting together a co-op based on an idea is the easy part. Finding the funding and getting the necessary approvals is where the difficult work begins. Murray believes the ethanol plant and anaerobic digester could be up and running within the next three to five years, but he also understands there will be many roadblocks slowing him down along the way.
"The whole game right now is designed so only the big boys can play," he says, pointing to oil giants like Suncor or biofuels leader Greenfield Ethanol.