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DOE Awarding $4.4M to Six Projects for Carbon Capture and Conversion

Green Car Congress

This integrated capture and conversion process will be used to produce a number of different chemicals that could replace petroleum-derived products. PhosphorTech Corporation (Lithia Springs, Ga.). Tags: Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Emissions. DOE share: $1,000,000; recipient share: $250,067; duration: 24 months).

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Profile: Farmers Ethanol: Focusing on Sustainable Corn Ethanol Production and a Triple Bottom Line

Green Car Congress

At a renewable energy conference in February of this year Doug Berven, the director of Corporate Affairs at ethanol producer POET, shared the following capacity projections for the ethanol business: At the beginning of this year the industry had 12.1 All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry. Earlier post.).

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine).

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