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Gmo Africa
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weblog and news on the benefits of genetically modified foods from Africa and around the world.
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Cellulosic ethanol can considerably reduce gasoline use by 2030
As the debate on the future of cellulosic ethanol gains steam, a new study shows the U.S. can replace a third of its annual gasoline use with ethanol by 2030. The study, jointly conducted by General Motors and Sandia National Laboratories, predicts ...
There’s a bright future for cellulosic ethanol investment
These are tough times for everybody, including the biofuels industry. The Associated Press has an interesting article about how corn-based ethanol producers are literally struggling to stay afloat. The article notes how shares of leading ethanol prod...
POET rolls out cellulosic ethanol plant
Cellulosic ethanol is on the move. Today, POET, the top U.S. ethanol producer, inaugurated a pilot cellulosic ethanol plant in South Dakota. The plant’s projected to churn out 22,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year. POET has an amazing,...
Call for technology to produce cellulosic ethanol
Jean Bernick, the editor of Farm Journal Crops & Issues, is exhorting us “to talk trash.” Funny, isn’t it? Hold back though, because Bernick is not asking you to spite the vilest epithet at your opponent. No! She wants a discuss...
Vilsack targeted for his Pro-GMOs stand
One day after President-Elect Barak Obama picked Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack, as Agriculture Secretary, anti-biotechnology activists are out in full force trying to paint him as an apologist for the biotech industry. Tara Lohan in an article on Altern...
Michigan smoothens the way for alternative energy investors
Michigan is about to enact a law to make readily available information on how to set up an alternative fuel production plant in the state. The law, H.B. 5745 (PDF), requires the Department of Agriculture to publish, in plain language, all the proced...
