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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

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1): “Anytime you have a growing crop out there in the winter that is receiving relatively little nutrient input, it’s going to be positive,” says University of Maryland’s Coale [Frank Coale, the chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Technology]. Longer term, OBE expects to have as many as four plants in the Mid-Atlantic.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. A Real-Time Demo of Load Coordination” shows how PEM coordinated the load from 208 residential water heaters in Vermont and South Carolina over a typical 2-hour period. Nardelli et al.’s