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USDA awards $10M in grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $10 million in research grants to spur production of biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products that will lead to the development of sustainable regional systems and help create jobs. Vilsack highlighted the announcement with a visit to Michigan State University, a grant awardee.

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DOE awards Georgia Tech team $600K to advance nanoscale additive manufacturing

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a 3-year, $600,000 grant to help researchers at Georgia Tech advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials. and Kim, S. and Rykaczewski, K. and Fedorov, A.

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Three-layer technique helps secure additive manufacturing

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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Rutgers University have developed a three-layer system to verify that components produced using additive manufacturing have not been compromised. —Raheem Beyah, Georgia Tech. The technique will also be applied to additional types of printers, and to different materials.

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UT Austin to lead $58M study of methane hydrate in Gulf of Mexico; $41M from DOE

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The grant, one of the largest ever awarded to the university, will allow researchers to advance the scientific understanding of naturally occurring methane hydrate so that its resource potential and environmental implications can be fully understood. Accordingly, other countries with high energy demands or limited resources—e.g.

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Range Fuels Closes on $80M Loan Guaranteed by USDA for Cellulosic Biofuels Plant

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The proceeds from the $80 million bond will be used to partially finance the first two phases of construction of Range Fuels’ first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant using renewable and sustainable supplies of non-food biomass near Soperton, Georgia.

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USDA Approves Field Testing of ArborGen Freeze-Tolerant Eucalyptus as Biomass Crop

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The permit was granted following the completion of an environmental assessment which found no significant impact for a controlled release of the hybrid. Range Fuels is building a commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia. ArborGen backgrounder on Freeze-Tolerant Eucalyptus.

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UC Riverside Researchers Create First Synthetic Cellulosome in Yeast; Potential to Make Renewable Fuel Production More Efficient and Economical

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The paper was co-authored by UCR students Shen-Long Tsai and Shailendra Singh, post-doctoral researcher Jeongseok Oh, and Ruizhen Chen, associate professor at the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. 75: 6087-6093 doi: 10.1128/AEM.01538-09.