China has committed $5 billion to etha-nol, with a focus on cellulosic technologies, and recently announced that it would not allow any further increase in starch-based ethanol production because ...

The plant, owned by chemical and biotechnology company DuPont ... touted as the world’s largest cellulosic ethanol plant; DuPont expects it to eventually make 30 million gallons of the fuel ...

The bacteria has the potential to drastically reduce the cost and complexity producing cellulosic ethanol. SunEthanol has just received a first round of venture capital funding from VeraSun Energy ...