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Study shows bamboo ethanol in China technically and economically feasible, cost-competitive with gasoline

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Bamboo, the composition of which is highly similar to energy grasses used for biofuel production such as switchgrass, is an interesting potential feedstock for advanced bioethanol production in China due to its natural abundance, rapid growth, perennial nature and low management requirements. million tons in 2008. —Littlewood et al.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Her team created a suite of low-cost medical devices, the NEST360 newborn tool kit, to improve neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. She left the University of Texas in 2005 to join Rice University. Early detection, she notes, can significantly reduce mortality rates. The initiative developed the NEST360 newborn tool kit.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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From 2005 until 2007 JP Morgan estimated that close to 60% of the MWs of wind capacity installed in the US were from projects that used tax equity financing. It is not how can we get low cost capital to take more risk. It is how do we lower the risk so low cost capital can participate. chance of default.

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