Frontline process turns wood residue into gas

Des Moines Register
By JERRY PERKINS • jperkins@dmreg.com • May 24, 2008

An Ames company is working to make renewable fuel more renewable.

Using fossil fuels such as natural gas or coal to make ethanol undercuts the industry's claim that it is a renewable, environmentally-friendly fuel, critics of the industry say.

Ames-based Frontline BioEnergy hopes to refute that argument with a system that uses gases produced from wood residue to make ethanol.

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