Innovative fuel plant goes public at Naperville launch

Naperville Sun
By Susan Frick Carlman scarlman@stmedianetwork.com
November 26, 2011 10:58PM

It’s scalable and skiddable. It’s just not quite functional yet.

The Green Fuels Depot, a collaborative effort seen as a bright light on the horizon of clean energy innovation, had its soft debut this past week. About 60 area business people, elected officials, activists and scientists gathered on the grounds of the Springbrook Water Reclamation Center in southeast Naperville for the unveiling.

Planned as a demonstration of what the device eventually will accomplish, the event wound up being more of an informational ribbon-cutting.

“I’m told there are still some regulatory approvals that we need before we can fire this up and produce energy,” said City Councilman Bob Fieseler, who has been a proponent of the energy plant for the three years since the project began.

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