Las Vegas Sun: An $8.3 million biomass plant that was supposed to generate electricity by burning wood at a state prison in Carson City has been a failure so far. The staff at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center is not qualified to run the plant and the prison has not been able to collect enough wood to keep it operating, officials said. When the plant is shut down, the prison loses $200,000 a month – the cost of buying energy and paying off the construction loan. The Legislature’s …