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Cobs are the feedstock for POET’s effort to commercialize cellulosic ethanol, Project LIBERTY, which will be built in Emmetsburg, Iowa. since November 2008. The second, expected next year, is estimated to provide an additional $13.15 Earlier post.) Operations are scheduled to begin in late 2011. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2012

Independent studies as well as Iowa State University research sponsored by POET, have shown that this amount of residue removal will not cause significant nutrient loss. In November, 2008, the company started operating a cellulosic bio-ethanol pilot plant at its research center in Scotland, South Dakota. Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The company’s goal is to be below $2 per gallon by the time of the commercial start-up of its Project LIBERTY (Launch of an Integrated Bio-refinery with Eco-sustainable and Renewable Technologies in Y2009) plant, a planned 25 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Earlier post.). Source: POET.

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APRIL 15, 2009

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University have developed a unique method that uses sponge-like mesoporous nanoparticles to harvest biofuel oils from algae without harming the algae. The mesoporous structure is illustrated by the hexagonally packed light-colored dots. Credit: Victor Lin. Victor Lin.

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DECEMBER 6, 2014

Through the Critical Agricultural Materials program, Iowa State University of Science and Technology received $1 million for the development of new paint, coating, and adhesive products that are derived from acrylated glycerol, which is a co-product of the biodiesel industry. The project period will not exceed five years.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

USDA is negotiating three additional loans for biorefineries in Iowa, North Carolina and Oregon. Congress established the Biorefinery Assistance Program in the 2008 Farm Bill. INEOS New Plant Bioenergy, located in Vero Beach, Fla., One of these ventures will retrofit an existing corn ethanol facility to produce cellulosic ethanol.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska): EPA is requesting proposals between $300,000 and $1,500,000. Since the first year of the DERA program in 2008, EPA has awarded nearly 700 grants across the US. Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin): EPA is requesting proposals between $500,000 and $2,500,000.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

VeraSun and 24 of its subsidiaries filed petitions for relief under chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in the US Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware on 31 October 2008. VeraSun hedged its corn purchases during the price spike in the summer of 2008 when cost per bushel had soared to nearly $8. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Launched in 2008, the CBiRC bases its engineering platform on three interconnected segments including enzyme and microbial engineering, chemical catalysis and catalysis engineering, and testbeds and life cycle analysis.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

AFRI is NIFA’s flagship competitive grant program and was established under the 2008 Farm Bill. University of Wisconsin, Madison $496,109. University of Wisconsin, Madison, $345,327. USDA Agricultural Research Service, $500,000.

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The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule replaces and strengthens the requirements of the 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ordered EPA to revise in 2008. The court allowed CAIR to remain in place temporarily while EPA worked to finalize the replacement rule.).

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MARCH 18, 2009

originally announced their intent to jointly study the feasibility of a large-scale renewable pipeline project in February 2008. The proposed common carrier pipeline system would gather ethanol from production facilities in Iowa, South Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to serve terminals in major Northeastern markets.

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She was one of three Georgia women honored in 2008 as part of the ninth annual Women of the Year in Technology Awards. She is a founding member of the IEEE Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Section’s Women In Engineering Affinity Group. She has served as the IEEE Atlanta Section’s secretary, vice chair, and chair.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

USDA’s loan commitment to Cool Planet is being financed from the remainder of the Biorefinery Assistance Program funds authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill. USDA has awarded conditional commitments for other plants in Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Oregon. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

This new maize sequence provides significant refinements over the draft sequence that was announced in February 2008, including the elimination of redundancy and improvements in the ordering and orientation of chromosomal segments. and included the University of Arizona, Iowa State University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

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APRIL 21, 2011

The state of Oregon conducted a similar study completed in November 2007 and Iowa, Nevada and Texas are among several states currently researching mileage-based user fees. Other state DOTs also are researching alternative financing methods to supplement or replace a gas tax.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. In some cases, decomposition of algae consumes much of the oxygen in the water. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 8, 2010

million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels. At such prices, CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector alone are reduced to 14% below 2005 levels and net crude oil and petroleum product imports decrease by 5.7

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Midwestern Governor’s Association represents Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The European Commission amended the European Fuel Quality Directive 98/70/EC in December 2008, to include the de-carbonization of transport fuel. Midwestern Governor’s Association.

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Researchers at Iowa State have developed a new hybrid optimization control method to improve diesel engine emissions and performance. Minemura (2008) “Application of hybrid evolutionary algorithms to low exhaust emission diesel engine design” Engineering Optimization. Obayashi, Y. 1 doi: 10.1080/03052150701561155.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Michael Oppenheimer, director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy and professor of geosciences and international affairs in the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is a co-author. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 15, 2009

WestVirginia University : Formula Lightning Solar Cars Clarkson University :Solar Knights Kansas State University :Apollo Universityof Quebec : Eclipse II University ofToronto : Blue Sky QueensUniversity : Dawn Treader Street Cars CentralShenandoah Valley Regional Governors School : Datsun 240Z conversion.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

Georg also enlisted the help of University of Iowa computer programmer/engineer Karen Pease. Seeing the inside operation of a wind turbine generator in Iowa and solar arrays throughout the country brought renewed hope for continued advances in renewable energy technologies and power generation.

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APRIL 10, 2010

The first auction for allowances was held on September 25, 2008. Since September 2008, RGGI has raised $583 million for the states in these quarterly auctions of permits with between 65 and 70 percent of cap-and-trade proceeds going back into the clean energy economy. The program then reduces the cap by 2.5 Another six U.S.

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