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Non-Tech : $2 or higher gas - Can ethanol make a comeback? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: richardred who wrote (540)	1/22/2006 10:53:05 AM
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As Brazil grows a sugar specifically geared toward ethanol. Cargill and Monsanto look to be doing the same in corn. Cargill-Monsanto joint venture to build corn plant Thu Jan 19, 2006 06:26 PM ET CHICAGO, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Biotech company Renessen LLC, a joint venture between agribusiness companies Cargill Inc. and Monsanto (MON.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , said on Thursday it plans to build a plant in Eddyville, Iowa to test a new ethanol production system. The plant will use biotech corn hybrids with increased energy and nutrient levels combined with a dry corn separation process used for ethanol production. The new plant will provide engineering data to help Renessen refine specifications for building a full-scale commercial plant and developing livestock feed markets. Among the products the plant will produce are corn oil, ethanol and animal feeds including distiller's dried grains, a primary by-product of ethanol production. The plant is expected to open in January 2007. The pilot-scale facility will employ about 15 people, the companies said. yahoo.reuters.com

To: richardred who wrote (540)	2/3/2006 11:36:01 PM
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SunOpta Announces Progress On Cellulosic Ethanol Activities 1/31/2006 Toronto - SunOpta Inc. announced that it has made significant progress on several cellulosic ethanol activities that the company is currently undertaking. The SunOpta BioProcess Group (formerly Stake Technology), a division of SunOpta Inc., is a world leader in the preparation and pretreatment of biomass for the production of cellulosic ethanol and other renewable fuels. The SunOpta Pretreatment System is based on proprietary and patented technologies and is the only industrially proven continuous system in the world for Biomass Pretreatment. SunOpta is pleased to announce that the detailed engineering and equipment supply for the wheat straw to ethanol plant in Babilafuente (Salamanca), Spain is proceeding on schedule. This facility, which represents the first commercial cellulosic ethanol production plant in the world, is being supplied to Abener Energia S.A. of Seville, Spain, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Abengoa S.A. (Abengoa) (Madrid Stock Exchange - ABG). Abengoa is the largest ethanol producer in Europe and the second largest in the world. This facility, which is scheduled to be operational in the fall of 2006, is located adjacent to an existing cereal grain to ethanol plant operated by Abengoa. Manufacturing of major equipment is currently being completed and will be shipped to site in the coming weeks. Within the last two weeks SunOpta shipped the Pretreatment System for the Abengoa Bioenergy Research and Development pilot plant to be built at the Abengoa corn starch to ethanol plant located at York, Nebraska. This pilot plant is funded by the US Department of Energy and will prove new advances in Biomass Conversion technologies utilizing the Pretreatment System from SunOpta Inc. SunOpta will present their Pretreatment Technology for the production of cellulosic ethanol at the 28th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, April 30 - May 3, 2006 in Nashville, Tennessee. This will highlight the latest advancements in SunOpta's Biomass Conversion Technology to produce ethanol from renewable resources such as grasses, wood chips, garbage and energy specific crops. Also to be covered will be SunOpta's 30 year history of providing pretreatment systems in Europe and North America. In a recent interview with CBS, President Bush stated, "I agree with Americans who understand being hooked on foreign oil as an economic problem and a national security problem." Mr. Bush has further stated his desire to emphasize the production of renewable fuels from waste materials. In a paper published in the journal Science, "Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals", the authors from University of California at Berkeley clearly make the case for the positive net energy benefit of cellulosic ethanol as well as point out the major impact to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by utilizing cellulosics as the starting raw material. Murray Burke, Vice President and General Manager of SunOpta's BioProcess Group, commented that "Energy security, GHG emissions and an eventual limit on corn and grain based ethanol supply are all contributing to the push for cellulosic ethanol. We are seeing unprecedented interest in our Pretreatment Technology in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia." SOURCE: SunOpta Inc. chemicalonline.com{16670DAD-FD4A-4BB6-84DD-DA3FEBA5C1D6}&Bucket=Current+Headlines&VNETCOOKIE=NO