'Closed Loop' system a boon for ethanol production

This is another example of the super-efficient ethanol production systems that must be the future of the entire industry if ethanol is to become a major part of our energy solution.
JournalStar.com:
by Art Hovey -- 10/28/05
"MEAD -- The management of E3 BioFuels has pulled the publicity wraps off a $45 million complex that will use manure
from 30,000 feedlot cattle as the energy source to make ethanol.

In what's billed as the world's first 'closed-loop' system of its kind, the wet distillers grain left over from 24 million gallons in annual ethanol production will be a major part of the cattle's diet.

It's a three-way, all-in-one-place marriage of earth, energy and environment and, more specifically, of cattle feeding, ethanol production and anaerobic conversion of animal waste into biogas.

'This is the first time all three of these have been done in the same triangle -- not just in the United States, but in the world,' Company President David Hallberg of Omaha said Thursday."