"This agreement represents our first large scale commercial development of jatropha," said Richard Palmer, MDI's President and Chief Operating Officer. "We are very excited about our plans with LODEMO and look forward to a long relationship. This partnership will help the local economy with good paying jobs as well as improve the global environment by producing non-food based (Jatropha) biodiesel feedstock oil and high quality biomass. The biomass can be used as a feedstock for cellulostic ethanol, green power generation or biomass to synthetic fuel production."
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According to U.S. Department of Energy studies[2] conducted by the Argonne Laboratories of the University of Chicago, one of the benefits of cellulosic ethanol is that it reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 85% over reformulated gasoline. By contrast, starch ethanol (e.g., from corn), which most frequently uses natural gas to provide energy for the process, may not reduce GHG emissions at all depending on how the starch-based feedstock is produced.[3] A study by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen found ethanol produced from corn, rapeseed (canola), and sugarcane had a "net climate warming" effect when compared to oil.[4]
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United States President Bush, in his State of the Union address delivered January 31, 2006, proposed to expand the use of cellulosic ethanol. In his State of the Union Address on January 23, 2007, President Bush announced a proposed mandate for 35 billion gallons of ethanol by 2017.
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In March 2007, the US government awarded $385 million in grants aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. Half of the six projects chosen will use thermo-chemical methods and half will use cellulosic ethanol methods.[9''
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