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Article: Kudzu could be da vine.
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- Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2007
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Byline: Randall Higgins
Jun. 30--CLEVELAND, Tenn. -- "The vine that ate the South" might some day fuel the Dynamo of Dixie.
Doug Mizell thinks so.
Using "Moonshine 101," he turned a pile of smashed kudzu into a batch of ethanol. He calls it "kudzunol."
Mr. Mizell has a long and turbulent history with kudzu. Since 1999 he has battled it on Lake Enid, Miss., vacation property. Like any Southerner who took on that fight in the past hundred years, he lost.
The Kudzu vine, which was introduced into this country in 1876, can grow up to 60 feet a year, smothers other plants, and has claimed an estimated 7 million acres of land in the ...