It seems like there are plenty of people talking about alternative fuel and alternative energy.
But isn’t it refreshing to come across people who just DO something instead of prattling on and on about it?
Kudos to Alternative Energy Solutions of Wichita and Prairie Fire Cooperative of Healy for doing just that with this week’s news that they are building a biomass pelletizing plant in western Kansas. Leave it to a family-owned small business and fourscore and six Kansas farmers to just shut up and do it.
AES markets an Italian-made boiler that can turn just about anything into energy and ash. And getting biomass into a form that can be easily handled and transported is one of the biggest hurdles to making big heaps of trash into fuel _ a hurdle that Prairie Fire seems to have crossed with agility.
More kudos to Sunflower Electric Cooperative, which will use the Prairie Fire product at its coal-fired plant in Holcomb to provide real-world data on how well the biomass pellets perform in an electrical generation plant.
Wouldn’t it be great others among the green talkers would join the effort and support Prairie Fire’s product?