Bio-Mass according to Kjellander

 Governor Otter has said it and now Idaho Energy Chief Paul Kjellander is agreeing…biomass may be at least one viable approach to energy independence. “I think cellulosic ethanol is certainly an area that we want to look at and it is an area that we’re looking at in the State of Idaho when wev look at 20 million acres of property within the borders of Idaho as controlled by the Federal Government via the Forest Service there’s a lot of potential to use some of that waste product for the production of forest bio-mass in the form of energy that you can actually create electricity and also for the production of ethanol and transportation fuels. One of the biggest arguments against ethanol is that it used food stock to create ethanol which many people were arguing was driving up the cost of corn and soy beans and other farm based grains for the production of ethanol. If you could move away from those resources and use bio-mass from forest lands, then certainly that takes that argument away and helps us move a little further down that path”