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The Bargain Neighborhoods, Madison CT, Estate of the Day
Posted Apr 26th 2008 1:02PM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Estates
NeighborhoodScout.com has used their matching function to find neighborhoods that are “discount equivalents” of some of the hot and pricey communities we recently covered in our Most Expensive Zip Codes estates.

The Neighborhood Scout deems that the town of Madison, Connecticut is a good equivalent for Malibu, the expensive celebrity-filled beach area north of Los Angeles. Malibu has a median price of $2.93 million but Madison has a far more reasonable median price of $649.344. Madison also has a much longer history than Malibu, it was first settled in 1641. Madison is also a beach community on the Connecticut shoreline. Hammonasset State Park in Madison boasts the state’s longest public beach and like Malibu it gets crazy crowded in the summer.

In Malibu, especially in the elite Carbon Beach area where it is rumored that a sale in the $65 million range recently took place, you have to be prepared to pay a lot. Also even some of the most striking homes such as one of my favorite estate of the day properties, special effects master Stan Winston’s Malibu home are in tight proximity to one another. In Madison, prices are for more reasonable. Today’s home has a great setting on Long Island Sound with a front yard that leads to a double tiered sandy beach. The 5000 square-foot home has been renovated and includes a great room with floor to ceiling stone fireplace, a gourmet eat-in kitchen and six bedrooms total. The master bedroom has a private balcony overlooking the water and a spacious master bath. This home is listed at $4.9 million.

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General Motors and Coskata today announced that a pilot plant for cellulosic ethanol will be built in Madison, Pennsylvania. The plant will located adjacent to the Westinghouse Plasma Center in Madison. The plasma torches that Coskata will be using for their gasification process are based on technology that was developed by GM and Westinghouse in the early eighties. At that time the companies developed a plasma furnace used to melt raw materials for cast iron production at GM foundries. The first production application was at a GM foundry in Defiance OH in 1989.

Coskata is using the same plasma torch technology to heat biomass materials to over 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit. That temperature is sufficient to convert almost any organic matter into a gas that is an intermediate ingredient in Coskata’s process for producing cellulosic ethanol. Coskata’s pilot plant will use Westinghouse Marc-3 plasma torches while the commercial scale plant will use larger Marc-11 torches. The pilot plant will be in operation in Q1 2009 with the first commercial plant following in 2011.

[Source: General Motors]