With Help, Could Ethanol Be the Next Internet?

The private sector is responding with alacrity, ramping up the construction of wind farms, solar arrays and ethanol plants. The Renewable Fuels Association, a trade association based in Washington for the ethanol industry, said that the 85 ethanol projects now under construction would more than double the existing capacity of six billion gallons a year by the end of 2008. Many of the same venture capitalists who financed promising California-based Internet companies in the 1990s are now financing promising California-based alternative energy start-ups.

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