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  • Corn estimates down in the US

    The US Department of Agrculture has lowered its estimates of the volume of corn and soy that will be harvested this year. So 2008 will only be the second largest crop in history. It might have been higher if the weather had been better. That story's in the Des Moines Register . You should subscribe...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
  • Poet to make cellulosic biofuel by year end

    Poet LLC, formerly Broin, says it will be making cellulosic ethanol at a plant in Dakota by the end of the year , according to a report in Iowa Farmer Today. It looks like Poet will be using DuPont technology, under an agreement signed in 2006 to make the ethanol. Poet gained funding from the US Department...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008
  • Kudzu its catching on

    I reported that Kudzu could be a good biofuel source for ethano l. Looks like the Huffington post agrees. Kudzu is the latest new craze, according to Huffington . Like all crazes I'll give it a couple of months. Now what about water hyacinth as a possible biofuel?
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008
  • Corn price and investors

    Des Moines Register has a piece about the way that moves to reduce the ethanol mandate in the US could reduce the amount of investment in cellulosic ethanol . To which I say: Duh. well yes if its done wrong I guess it could The article by Philip Brasher has some useful numbers on the effect of biofuels...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008
  • GM and Marathon invest in biofuels

    Good to see big names in energy and the automotive sector investing in cellulosic biofuels in Mascoma's latest round of financing, according to Domestic Fuel .
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-07-2008
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