Howdy Jones,
We have an ideal site for an bio plant as you described. Alcoa-Rockdale ,
just northeast of Austin Texas. 60,000 acres, old lignite strip mine and
electricpower gen plant. Alcoa wants to decommission it.
By the looks of Alcoa performance on Wall St. Its surprising one of their
thinkers ( if any are left) hasn't thought about using the site for such,,,
in the long run they would make a better return on bio fuel,, considering
that bauxite is in the sights of Hugo Chavez et al.
Locally, we also have LCRA plant near Bastrop that mines lignite onsite,
LCRA is owned by the state of Texas.
Alcoa would be the ideal candidate.. If I had a prepared brief on your and
Horace study, I would see it got in the right hands at Alcoa.. via a friend
at TWDB the state water board that has environmental oversite at Alcoa and
remains on theiur case for polluting the neighborhood.. thus Alcoa's empty
threat of abandoning the Rocjdale plant.. put in during WW2 for aluminum
defense .. in other words, the darn plant was bought and paid for by Uncle
Sam.
Richard
