Its a 100-square-meter plant, based in a paper-pulp factory near Oslo Fjord and is expected to generate up to four kilowatts of power.

FORBES: Getting Power From Salty Water

It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.

ECONOMIST: When the smoke clears in Asia

Part of the explanation seems to be that Koch has been shrewder than Georgia-Pacific's managers about trends in the pulp-and-paper business.

ECONOMIST: Mergers and acquisitions: Private lives | The

At Phoenix Pulp and Paper, for example, the country's largest supplier of pulp for paper, a five-year battle between the controlling shareholder, a foreign company, and acquisitive Thai politicians is reaching a climax.

ECONOMIST: Thai business

By 2000 American Tissue's empire stretched from Oregon to New York and included eight mills capable of producing 919, 000 tons of pulp and paper annually, 8 product-producing plants and 12 distribution centers.

FORBES: Paper Trail

Timber is sold either for pulp used in paper processes or as saw-timber for construction.

WSJ: Wealthy Investors Discover Timberland