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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

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(In 2008, Valero Energy CEO Bill Kless had said that using corn to produce ethanol will make food so expensive in poor countries that it will cause more misery than global warming. In a normal power plant this waste heat is released into the atmosphere; in Farmers’ system they’ll use the engine’s exhaust waste heat to distill the ethanol.