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Biomass co-op says product can cleanup spill
A Missouri biomass company says it has the answer to effectively cleaning up the Gulf oil spill.
Show Me Energy Cooperative in Centerview, Missouri has developed a special pellet product out of switchgrass and other biomass materials. Show Me Board President Steve Flick tells Brownfield he’s presented the product, BM-007, to Louisiana’s governor, Coast Guard officials and BP Amoco officials. “This is a true, real-deal scientific basis of taking organic chemistry by plant materials and absorbing that oil.”
Once it’s absorbed and removed, Flick says they can squeeze the oil back out for energy use, “What’s left over, the biomass, could be burned at a local gasification power plant in Houma, Louisiana.”
Flick says the product can potentially absorb 10 to 25 tons per surface acre and proposes giving it to fishermen in the Gulf to help clean up the oil mess, “You know this is good for Missouri agriculture but it also says we’re willing to help our fellow people in Louisiana. You know, it’s an industry where – either you work for an oil company or you crab or fish.”
Flick says his biomass solution would create jobs instantly at a place and time that they’re needed.
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