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

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PhosphorTech Corporation (Lithia Springs, Ga.). RTI will assess the feasibility of producing valuable chemicals, such as carbon monoxide, by reducing CO 2 using abundant low-value carbon sources, such as petcoke, sub-bituminous coal, lignite, and biomass, as the reductant. CCS Materials, Inc. Piscataway, N.J.).

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

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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

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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). 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49

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