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Start-up Joule Biotechnologies is sort of a mashup of the fuels, solar, and biotechnology industries.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company on Monday is disclosing its technology and business plans for making ethanol and other liquid fuels from genetically manipulated microorganisms that have been fed only sunlight and carbon dioxide.

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Tags: Carbon Dioxide, hydrocarbon fuel, Renewable Energy

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Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a start-up company, are set to announce Monday that they will build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol as a vehicle fuel or an ingredient in plastics.

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Tags: ethanol, hydrocarbon fuel, Renewable Energy