Well color me shocked today.... there really IS hope for NY.

After all this time I've spent griping over New Yorks complete and utter lack of alternative fuels I stumble on this:

  Nextgen Fuel and Northeast Biofuels

Whats more these aren't new articles. Construction of both facilities is slated to be completed this winter at the old Miller Brewing plant just outside of North Syracuse. Production capacity for the two facilities is set at 5 million gallons of biodiesel and 100 million gallons of ethanol a year. The ethanol plant will be the third largest in the country while the Nextgen plant will supply just under 5% of the 110 gallon Biodiesel capacity in the US. Clarkson University is supplying the technology for the Northeast plant which it claims increases production efficiency by 100%. If there was any debate over the cost of producing ethanol there isn't anymore. Between Clarkson's new technology and SUNY ESF's Willow biomass and Hydrogen gassification project just South of Syracuse, this just might be... the place to be.

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