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CleanTech Biofuels Merging With Biomass North America: CleanTech has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Biomass North America Licensing which will bring together IP around cellulosic ethanol production and sites with municipal waste as a feedstock – MarketWatch.
“High Oil Prices? Blame Ethanol, OPEC Says”: Ethanol can’t get a break. OPEC president Chakib Khelil says that about 40% of the run up in oil prices is caused by ethanol, which makes up 1 percent of the world’s transportation fuel – WSJ Environmental Capital.
Dow and NREL Partner for Thermochemical Ethanol Production: Dow Chemical and the National Renewable Energy Lab are jointly developing a process to gasify non-food biomass into syngas which will be converted by Dow’s catalysts into ethanol – Green Car Congress.
France to Update Its Tidal Power: State-owned Electricite de France is planning on putting three to six tidal turbines off the northern coast of Brittany. The project is expected to cost between $36.4 million and $42.8 million and generate 4 to 6 megawatts – Cleantech Group.
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