http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/07/09/ind_town_cultivates_renewable_energy/REYNOLDS, Ind. -- This farming hamlet is aiming to generate its own electricity and natural gas, using everything from municipal trash to farm waste, hog manure, and even town sewage.
If the experiment works, Reynolds and its 500 residents will be the nation's first community to use renewable resources to meet the energy needs of all their homes and businesses.
Dubbed Biotown USA, the project is the brainchild of Indiana's Department of Agriculture.
State officials hope to break ground in November on a $10 million ``technology suite," a privately funded center that will house the core equipment needed to turn manure and other biomass material into energy.
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