The plants will use equipment manufactured in the US to produce ethanol from rice hulls, which are now burned or dumped into the polluted Mekong and Red rivers.
Each ethanol plant will be a self-contained modular unit with design capacity to produce 5,000 gallons a day. The units will be easy to assemble and have state-of-the art environmental protection equipment.
If the plants are an operational success, as many as 150 more could be built by 2016, according to Richard Kamahele Figueroa, chief executive of FullOn Holdings, parent company of Golden State Biofuels.
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