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Liquid Biofuels» Biofuels Working Groups Liquid Biofuels are the products of transforming plant starch and fiber [biomass] into ethanol or methanol. Forest biomass can be converted into cellulose ethanol. While chemically identical to ethanol produced from corn or soybeans, cellulose ethanol exhibits net energy content three times higher than corn ethanol and emits a low net level of greenhouse gases. Cellulosic ethanol can be produced from a wide variety of cellulosic biomass feedstocks including agricultural plant wastes (corn stover, cereal straws, sugarcane bagasse), plant wastes from industrial processes (sawdust, paper pulp), energy crops grown specifically for fuel production (switchgrass), and by-products of forest thinning. In this category you will find biofuels working groups, rural economic development opportunities and incentives through renewable fuels and clean energy production, innovations and technology links, and renewable fuels projects and businesses.
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