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Economist: Take 'stalk' in corn stover as state's ethanol future and Purdue Study Concludes Corn Stover Better Economically Than Switchgrass for Indiana Cellulosic Ethanol

Range Fuels has announced that it has received a permit to build an ethanol production plant in rural Georgia that uses wood chips as its feedstock. It plans to break ground on the plant this summer. The plant will gather wood scraps from the logging industry and process it to make ethanol.

Cellulosic ethanol processes are supposed to be more efficient than making it from corn. It has less intensive farming needs, and can be derived from a wide range of biomass sources.