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Nevada Company Turning Trash Into Biofuels

By Jay Bartos
Published September 4, 2014 at 6:31 PM PDT

A clean energy conference kicked off in Las Vegas Thursday with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and federal Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighting a northern Nevada project being built to convert municipal solid waste into diesel and jet fuel.  They joined Fulcrum BioEnergy officials at  the annual National Clean Energy Summit.

The company's Sierra BioFuels Plant in Storey County will convert some 200,000 tons of trash from the Lockwood Regional Landfill in Sparks into more than 10 million gallons per year of biofuels. The conference is expected to draw about 800 public officials, corporate leaders and advocates to the Mandalay Bay Resort.
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Jay Bartos joined Nevada Public Radio in 1993 to develop and manage the state’s first radio reading service for people unable to use standard printed material due to blindness or another disability. After the reading service was discontinued in 2011, he became the afternoon host on KNPR for ten years. Jay can now be heard on air on News 88.9 KNPR and Classical 89.7 KCNV throughout the week.
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