AETE Announces $1 Ethanol

HOUSTON--(Business Wire)--
The Alternative Energy Technology Center, Inc. (OTC:AETE)
announced today its plans to produce ethanol for the U.S. market at
less than $1 per gallon. AETE will refine biomass into fuel products
using its exclusive technology.

Most new automobiles built in the U.S. by General Motors (NYSE:GM)
and other manufacturers are equipped to run on 85% ethanol. To fuel
these cars ethanol production must be expand significantly. With corn
at over $5 per bushel, current plants spend nearly $2 to produce a
gallon of ethanol that sells for $2.60. AETE's process using common
cellulosic biomass will produce ethanol for less than $1 per gallon.

"One dollar ethanol will allow us to operate profitably without
government subsidies or incentives," noted Brown Marks, AETE's
President. "We expect to produce over 100 gallons of fuel per ton of
cellulosic biomass which costs about $65 in today's market," he
stated. "We have designed our technology to use low cost feed stocks
that are widely available at low cost. We use a low energy input
design to increase efficiency and we can place our plants wherever
there is abundant biomass available," he concluded.

The Company: The Alternative Energy Technology Center, Inc.
(OTC:AETE), based in The Woodlands, TX, is a technology company
focused on biofuels and alternative energy technologies. It is
developing the first true biorefinery in the U.S. It will focus on
technologies using renewable energy inputs from non-food energy
sources and on technologies that can be scaled up to efficiently
addresses the post-petroleum energy needs of the United States.

For more information, please visit our homepage at:
www.AltEnergyTechCenter.com

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The Alternative Energy Technology Center, Inc., Houston
David Mordekhay, 832-358-0230
www.AltEnergyTechCenter.com

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