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NSF Awards NCSU Team $2M For Research on Deriving Drop-in Renewable Hydrocarbon Fuels from Algae

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Source: Texas A&M. The $2 million grant is part of the federal stimulus package and comes from NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. Diversified Energy Corporation holds an exclusive license to the Centia technology, developed at NC State. Dunaliella. Click to enlarge. and Innova Tech.

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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.