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Lignol Reports Fiscal 2010 Third Quarter Financial Results 10 Mar 2010 12:39, Canadian Business Magazine

... Energy Corporation (TSX-V: LEC) ("Lignol" or "the Company"), a leading technology company in the cellulosic ethanol and biorefining sector, today announced its financial results for the three and nine-month periods ended January ...

Newton Falls hopes for break 10 Mar 2010 10:56, Watertown Daily Times

... — Sen. Charles E. Schumer will ask Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to help see that ... to use the money to buy a cellulosic ethanol boiler, which would reduce the plant's carbon ...

Green groups host alternative energy forum 10 Mar 2010 09:35, Daily News Leader

... drought-tolerant and resistant to erosion. Whitescarver said farmers who intend to grow native grasses, need ... Cole sells some of his crop for biofuel, and tons of his grass has been ... Farmer Dale Reeves of Mount Solon grows switchgrass as bedding in his poultry house. He ...

Presenting Sorghum as Superior Bioenergy Crop 9 Mar 2010 13:16, Checkbiotech

... ITHACA, N.Y. — The New York Farm Viability Institute (NYFVI) and the Institute for ... Diversity (IGD) recently invited local farmers, engineers, agricultural professionals, and bioenergy business entrepreneurs to discuss ... biomass, it can be used to make cellulosic ethanol, and one advantage the sorghum has in ...

New Green Chemistry companies 9 Mar 2010 20:20, ICIS.com

... acids such as formate, lactate, and succinate. GlycosBio was founded in 2007 by Rice University ... enable up to 30% increased yields in cellulosic ethanol production. Formerly Penn Specialty Chemicals, Pennakem was ... 2008, and becomes a global supplier of agriculture by-product based furfural and furan derivatives. Pennakem ...

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Switchgrass In The Blogosphere!

Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:27 PM
wildsingapore news: Could we end up trampling biodiversity in ...: From wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com
They range from low-diversity corn fields to switchgrass plots to remnant prairies. ... even degraded grasslands with switchgrass and other ...

Saturday, February 27, 2010 3:30 PM
Scientists design crop that can break down its own cellulose: From digg.com
Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than ... mentions it could be applied to other plants such as swit...

Saturday, February 27, 2010 4:2 AM
Biomass for energy (enerģētiskā koksne un kārklu plantācijas): From biomassforenergy.blogspot.com
Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than ... The switchgrass cultivars used in this study were develop...

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