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		<title>Michigan Built Biorefinery going to California</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 01:20:02 +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 Grand Rapids-based Andy J. Egan Co. was awarded the fabrication contract under a $20.5 Million grant for a cellulosic biomass-to-ethanol project.  The entire biorefinery, consisting of tanks, piping and other equipment, will be fabricated in Grand Rapids, then mounted on 14 skids and shipped to Visalia, California.   The goal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waste-to-Ethanol Plant Planned for Holland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Renewable Energy Technologies LLC will retrofit an empty factory in Holland to convert sugar and alcohol-based wastes into fuel-grade ethanol.  The eventual goal is to expand operations to process municipal waste solids from wastewater treatment plants.  Initial plans for feedstock includes apples, cider, alcohol and manure.  The project has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Investment in Cellulosic Ethanol Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer Valero Energy Corporation, the nation&#8217;s large independent oil refiner, has invested in Mascoma&#8217;s  Frontier Renewable Resources LLC project in Kinross.  It has signed a letter of intent indicating it may invents up to $50 million of the equity required to finance the project and would enter into an off-take agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Permitting Challenge to Wood Ethanol Plant Dropped</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman, Energy Lawyer In September the Mascoma Corporation’s Frontier Renewable Resources LLC wood-chips-to-ethanol project was issued an air permit by MDNRE, with construction scheduled to start next spring near Kinross and ethanol production expected in 2013. In early December an appeal of the permit decision was filed by the Sierra Club. Alleged permitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money for Ethanol Research at MSU</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman  One of three new federal bio-energy research hubs to work out the science of converting plant matter (other than corn) into fuel to replace gasoline is being funded through a five-year, $50 million federal grant.  Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin will combine efforts to host the research center.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Issues Aired on TV by DELEG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman The Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth is producing a monthly 30-minute TV show designed to provide information about the latest initiatives and activities in state government related to renewable energy, green jobs, energy efficiency, and advanced energy technologies. Michigan’s Energy Future Today is hosted by DELEG Deputy Director Liesl Eichler [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Opportunity for Biomass – Biofuels (2 of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman Biofuels are defined as solid, liquid or gaseous fuels derived from relatively recently dead biological material. They are distinguished from fossil fuels, which are derived from long dead biological material. Theoretically, biofuels can be produced from any biological carbon source. Various plants and plant-derived materials are used as feedstock for biofuels manufacturing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunities for Biomass – Power and Heat (1 of 3)</title>
		<link>http://www.varnumblogs.com/energy/2009/the-opportunity-for-biomass-%e2%80%93-power-and-heat-1-of-3/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-opportunity-for-biomass-%25e2%2580%2593-power-and-heat-1-of-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman Biomass power technologies include direct firing, cofiring, gasification, anaerobic digestion and other technologies. Although many current biomass power plants are small, industrial cogeneration or heating applications, utility-scale plants with capacities in excess of 80 megawatts have been commissioned. In the United States, biomass power plants currently represent 11,000 megawatts of capacity, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Tech Research on Weeds to Jet Fuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Goodman Michigan Tech University has determined that camelina, a weed from the mustard family, can be used to make a jet biofuel that produces 80 per cent less greenhouse gas emissions than petroleum jet fuel. Camelina has naturally high oil content, is drought tolerant, can be grown on marginal land, and requires less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing Between Food and Fuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by Bruce Goodman The increase in corn prices brought about by the rush to corn ethanol production was a valuable lesson last year. Now with gasoline prices down, and many corn ethanol plants mothballed, there is time to consider the interplay of food crops and fuel crops. Targeting research and development efforts on crops that [...]]]></description>
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