Kudzunol

There's a company in Tennessee that is working converting kudzu into ethanol! How fantastic is that? Ok, if you're not from the SE United States, the picture to the right is an ubiquitous site in the South, where the weed-like kudzu vines grow like crazy along every highway and backroad in sight. It grows a foot a day(!) and up to 60 feet a season. It requires zero watering or care or anything and has no natural predators, so the only thing is does is overgrow everything. It's kind of a pain to harvest, apparently, but the folks at Agro Gas Industries are working on it. Not sure how viable it will be, but I actually first hear about this on ESPN--apparently NASCAR is looking into mandating some non-corn ethanol be used in their race cars. Hybrids are still a little ways off for the Busch Series...