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Amyris processes Ceres sweet sorghum into renewable diesel using soluble and cellulosic sugars

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into renewable diesel in a US Department of Energy (DOE) funded biorefinery project. To process the soluble sugars that accumulate in the plants, the sorghum juice was first extracted from the stems and concentrated into sugar syrup by Ceres. Amyris modifies farnesene to become renewable diesel. Source: Amyris.

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Amyris to Partner with Three Sugar and Ethanol Producers in Brazil for Manufacture of Renewable Chemicals and Fuels

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has entered into letter of intent agreements with three sugar and ethanol producers in Brazil—Bunge Limited, Cosan and Açúcar Guarani with the purpose of partnering for the production of high value renewable specialty chemicals and fuels. These products will be distributed by Amyris. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Amyris adds additional production capacity through agreement with Paraíso Bioenergia

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Renewable hydrocarbons company Amyris, Inc. a renewable energy company producing sugar, ethanol and electricity headquartered in São Paulo State, Brazil. The new production facility will be designed to process juice from up to one million tons of cane annually. Amyris’s joint venture with Grupo São Martinho.

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ARB posts six new LCFS pathway applications for comment; new PFAD biodiesel approach

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted six new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway applications to the LCFS public comment web site: corn ethanol; molasses ethanol (from Brazil); palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD) to biodiesel; and landfill gas to LNG, L-CNG, and CNG. gCO 2 e/MJ for diesel. Earlier post.)

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. A simple, clean, efficient EV that wont run out of juice because of its on-board gas generator. Posted by: Steven | Apr 13, 2009 9:35:35 PM We should have let GM go under.

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