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USDA approves $99M, 80% loan guarantee to Chemtex to support development of cellulosic ethanol from energy grasses

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The same technology being used at a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Crescentino, Italy, expected to start operations in the fall of 2012, and in a series of plants to be built by GraalBio in Brazil. Earlier post. The new USDA loan guarantee is part of a larger effort to produce advanced biofuels in every region of the country.

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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

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Additionally, other tree parts go to waste when only the trunk is used, making the process more inefficient and wasteful. For this study, trees in Jefferson, Oregon—one of the four study sites—were planted in rows close together in spring of 2012 and harvested less than two years later before the leaves had fallen.