[RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Colusa Biomass Energy Corp (CBMG) is gearing
up its marketing effort to promote its patented process of converting rice
straw (rice hulls) into the biofuel ethanol. The company has retained
Massachusetts Yet2.com to help commercialize the company's technology
that's aimed at creating valuable biofuels out of an agricultural waste
product. According to the company's CEO Thomas F. Bowers, when your
average rice farmer grows an acre of rice he gets about 8000 pounds of
rice and 5000 pounds of rice straw. Most of the rice straw has no
commercial value. CBMG's technology can make an acre of waste rice straw
into 313 gallons of fuel ethanol and 900 pounds of high silica for
industry, he says, and generate more than $890 of revenue from an acre of
waste rice straw.