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Ford and Ontario Bio-Car Initiative Develop Wheat Straw-Reinforced Plastic; First Application in 2010 Flex

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This application alone reduces petroleum usage by some 20,000 pounds per year, reduces CO 2 emissions by 30,000 pounds per year, and represents a sustainable usage for wheat straw, the waste byproduct of wheat. Ontario, for example, has some 30 million metric tons of available wheat straw waste at any given time. More than 1.5

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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The SkyMine process transforms CO 2 into solid carbonate and/or bicarbonate materials while also removing sulfur oxides, nitrogen dioxide, mercury and other heavy metals from flue gas streams of industrial processes. Ithaca, NY) Teaming with Albemarle Corporation and the Eastman Kodak Co.,