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BP and Verenium Form Cellulosic Ethanol Venture to Deliver Advanced Biofuels

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This collaboration is intended to progress the development of one of the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities, located in Highlands County, Florida and to create future opportunities for leveraging cellulosic ethanol technologies. Earlier post.).

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

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Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on novel concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO 2 exhausted from industrial processes. The six projects were initially selected for a first-phase funding in October 2009 as part of a $1.4 Alcoa, Inc.