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Ivy Weeks/The Tifton Gazette Lance Lever (front, left), vice-president of manufactoring and Jason Lawrence (front, right), vice-president of business developement, hold woodchips and other organic materials which is considered "biomass" which J.C. Bell hopes to turn into hydrocarbons using bacteria. These hydrocarbons in turn can then be used to create oil which, coo Debbie Layfield and Dr. Kelley White of research developement is holding.
Ivy Weeks/The Tifton Gazette

Researcher: Discovery could end energy crisis

By Jana Cone/reporter

“Wherever this is located, the community will reap tremendous economic benefit,” he said.

Bell cites a number of benefits of bio-mass conversion: The energy shortage issue can be effectively addressed, it is a totally renewable energy source, it calms global warming fears, utilizes industrial waste and supports the agriculture industry.

“We can reduce the waste stream by 70 percent,” he said.

For more information e-mail questions to marketing@bellplantation.com.

To contact reporter Jana Cone, call 382-4321, ext. 208.

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