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Money Troubles Stall Green Town Project

By TOM MURPHY, Associated Press Writer
Farmer Tonie Snyder stands with bales of unused corn stover in a field near Reynolds Ind. Thursday Feb. 21 2008. Snyder helped provide thousands of bales of corn stover last fall that were supposed to be burned using technology that now may never be  ...
Farmer Tonie Snyder stands with bales of unused corn stover in a field near Reynolds, Ind. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. Snyder helped provide thousands of bales of corn stover last fall that were supposed to be burned using technology that now may never be built. (AP Photo/Tom Strickland)

(AP) -- This one-stoplight farming hamlet had big dreams in 2005 when it was christened BioTown USA. Its goal: to become the first U.S. community to meet all electricity and gas needs through renewable energy by using everything from farm waste to sewage.




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