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Biofuels
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Biobutanol
- Biofuels Entreprenuer seeking £80 million for Biobutanol plant in Ireland 11 February 2007 from Greencarcongress.com. "John Nichols, the co-founder and former chief executive of UK-based Biofuels Corporation, is trying to raise up to £80 million (US$156 million) to design and to build a biobutanol plant in Ireland, which would use local sugar beets as the feedstock."
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Biodiesel
- China Clean Energy outlines plan to expand biodiesel capacity using palm oil leavings as a feedstock (go to story) - 18 December 2006 from Biofuel Review.
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Biomass-to-Liquids
- Dynamotive begins construction of a modular fast pyrolysis plant in Ontario (go to story). 19 December 2006 from Biopact. The 200 ton per day plant will convert wood residues into pyrolysis oil.
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Cellulosic Ethanol
- Range Fuels to build first wood cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgia 7 February 2007 Press Release. Range Fuels, Inc., a cellulosic ethanol company has announced plans to build an ethanol plant that uses a two-step biomass-to-liquids technology that can produce ethanol from a range wood, grass and waste feedstocks.
- Sunopta Updates on Cellulosic Ethanol Projects 18 January 2007 from Greencarcongress.com. SunOpta Inc. provided an update on the status of four cellulosic ethanol projects using a variety of cellulosic biomass including woodchips, corn stover, sugar cane bagasse, and wheat straw. The projects are in China, Spain, Canada and Louisiana.
- Are We There Yet? Not quite, but cellulosic ethanol may be coming sooner than you think 11 Dec 2006 from [Grist]. This piece examines trends in the development of cellulosic ethanol and suggests we may have a commercial industry within 5 years.
- Mascoma Corporation Inches Closer to Commercially Producing Cellulosic Ethanol 12 December 2006 from Biofuels Journal.
- Company brings in High-Yield Trial Rice Straw Harvest; Targets Cellulosic Ethanol Production for 2007 20 November 2006, from greencarcongress.com. Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation has completed its first ever rice-straw harvesting operation in California, the US' second-largest rice producer. It collected 6,800 tons of rice straw with an average yield per acre harvested of over 4 tons/acre, compared to previous assumptions of 2.5 tons/acre. The higher yields significantly reduced the amount of acres necessary to be harvested in order to reach CBEC’s target volume of rice straw. Colusa will turn the rice straw into ethanol at its plant, which is due to be finished in 2007.
- First Commercial-sized Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in US to be built in Iowa 21 November 2006 from the Des Moines Register. The Broin Cos. plant will be converted from a 50 million-gallon-a-year conventional corn dry mill facility into a 125 million-gallon-a-year commercial-scale biorefinery producing ethanol not only from corn but also corn stalks, leaves and cobs. The $200 million plant expansion is scheduled to begin in February and take about 30 months to complete. Iowa already has 25 ethanol plants producing about 1.6 billion gallons of ethanol, more than any other state.
- Stover to Fill Part of Ethanol Goal for US 22 November from the Des Moines Register. A report issued by the Biotechnology Industry Organization on Tuesday estimated that it was "realistic" to harvest 30 percent of the available stover nationwide to yield 5 billion gallons of ethanol. Most of the stover would continue to be left in the field for environmental reasons as the decaying plant material prevents soil erosion and adds ground nutrients. The US DOE has set a goal of 60 billion gallons of ethanol by 2030. However that goal assumed the use of 70% of stover for ethanol.
- Texas Mesquite Trees Considered for Cellulosic Ethanol October 20, 2006 by MSNBC. "The Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Lockett is working on a project dubbed the "Mesquite Alternative Fuel Project," which will study the feasibility of harvesting mesquite and turning it into cellulosic ethanol." There are 52 million acres of mesquite in texas and it is considered perfect for harvesting because of its high regrowth rate.
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Business and Economics
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Policy and Politics
- China halts expansion of corn-based ethanol industry to arrest food price rise (go to story) - 20 December 2006 from newKerala.com.
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