13 Jul 2011US - Mendota Bioenergy LLC will test the feasibility of converting sugar beets and agricultural waste, such as almond orchard prunings, into several kinds of transportation fuel and other sustainable products.
An Energy Commission grant will support the pre-development work for the design and construction of the Advanced Bioenergy Center in Mendota. This work includes exploring the project's technical feasibility, its economic viability and its life-cycle environmental impacts.
Mendota BioEnergy will analyze the sustainability of the plan, assess the properties of sugar beets and other feedstock materials, and then develop technology to convert the biomass into useful products.
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