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		<title>Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer In May 2011, in front of 40 of Michigan’s top leaders in clean energy manufacturing, Governor Snyder presented the first Reinventing Michigan Award to Energetx Composites. Having waited impatiently for four months, this group of entrepreneurs (ready to unleash their economic gardening skills, resources, and innovation) asked the Governor for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Bio-economy Research Center at MSU</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  With an initial goal of developing cost effective, off-the-shelf anaerobic digestion technology for small and medium-sized farms, Michigan State University has established its Anaerobic Digester Research and Education Center. The Center brings together resources that were spread across four laboratories on the East Lansing campus. There are already 150 manure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pioneering Technology to be Used at Cellulosic Biobutanol Refinery</title>
		<link>http://www.varnumblogs.com/energy/2012/pioneering-technology-to-be-used-at-cellulosic-biobutanol-refinery/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pioneering-technology-to-be-used-at-cellulosic-biobutanol-refinery</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Watt's New? Michigan Energy News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  Cobalt Technologies and American Process Inc. have agreed to build the world’s first industrial-scale cellulosic biorefinery to produce biobutanol in Alpena.  The continuous fermentation and distillation technology will convert cellulosic biomass feedstock into fermentable sugars that will be used to produce ethanol and biobutanol.  The biobutanol can be used &#8220;as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demo Energy Crops Planted in Midland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Growing Michigan - Michigan Agriculture News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer  Dow Corning Corporation will soon have a bio-mass energy facility built at its Midland location which will  supply steam and up to 40 MW of electricity.  To be owned and operated by Midland Power Station, formerly Cirque Energy, the electricity and steam will be generated through the gasification of such feedstock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mascoma to Raise More Money in IPO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Mascoma Corporation, yet to break ground on its Kinross, Michigan non-food cellulosic ethanol facility, plans to raise up to $100 Million in an initial public offering (IPO) of stock.  The company has developed technology and genetically modified yeast with the potential to cut the cost of breaking down cellulose and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Ruled the World (or maybe just the State)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery Currents - Advanced Energy Storage Systems News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Five elements to include in an energy policy for Michigan: BIOMASS ENERGY: Make use of the energy in biomass that is going to waste in this state. The BTU content of the “unused biomass” in the state of Michigan is enormous.  ENERGY EFFICIENCY/CONSERVATION: Make better use of our existing energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuel Catalyst Technology Funded</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer NextCAT, Inc, a Wayne State University startup company, has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Award of $498,830 from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the company is to commercialize a catalyst that will cost effectively convert waste vegetable oil, animal fats, and residual corn oil into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should the Governor Go Beyond Fuel Taxes to an Overall Carbon Tax?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer It is being reported that Governor Snyder intends on seeking a change in the transportation fuels taxing structure, shifting the application of the tax from the retail to the wholesale level. If true, is it time to consider a more general fossil fuel carbon tax? It has long been recognized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biomass Plant for Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer   Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. is selling its Renewafuel operations near Marquette and returning its $500,000 Community Development Block Grant to Marquette County. The plant has been up and running, producing high-energy, low emission biofuel cubes from wood and agricultural feed stocks designed to help meet renewable portfolio standards and/or air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Gerald R. Ford had an Energy Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer On his last day in office, January 19, 1977, President Gerald Ford issued a clarion call on energy:  &#8220;America cannot permit the excessive delays associated with the commercialization of unconventional energy technologies.  New production is essential.  Our national security and economic well-being depend on our ability to act decisively on [...]]]></description>
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