{Corbin, Kentucky}...Patriot Bioenergy Corp., which has an office in Williamsburg, wants to locate the facility near Corbin in Whitley County if the infrastructure is built and the Kentucky Economic Development or Energy Incentives boards approve of the project. The facility would convert sugar beets into fuel over the next two years if it can get approval. Patriot's CEO Roger Ford says the company would use natural gas to spark the process in a similar fashion to a distillery getting alcohol from sugar. Patriot has had more than 20 acres of energy beets growing throughout Whitley County to test growing conditions with field trials on the energy beets going on since the spring 2011.
