Just because it's no longer storming doesn't mean any of us in Houston have even remotely recovered from Hurricane Ike, which made landfall September 13. I know many neighborhoods across the city continue to watch the mounds of debris and fallen trees and branches and demolished fences climb past their eyeballs. Fortunately it looks like Houston is doing something smart about it!

Biofuels Power Corp. signed an agreement today to create a biomass plant that will use wood chips and debris from the ongoing Hurricane Ike cleanup to produce 4 megawatts of clean energy and then sequester the carbon emissions in a depleted oil field.

Under the terms of the agreement, six acres of land will be leased from DSMC of Humble, Texas, a waste wood storage facility operator which has been the primary collector of debris for the City of Houston's Hurricane Ike cleanup effort, and which will also supply the fodder for the plant.