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This month's flop is Range Fuels, that former darling of green Silicon Valley, which a few years ago was boasting it would build the nation's first commercial cellulosic plant, near Soperton, Georgia.
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Range said it would build the nation's first commercial cellulosic plant, near Soperton, Georgia, using wood chips to produce 20 million gallons a year in 2008, with a goal of 100 million gallons.
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The EPA has only approved a single plant to sell the stuff, operated by Range Fuels near Soperton, Georgia.
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Range Fuels, based in Colorado, is using a thermo-chemical process for a 120 million gallon a year facility in Soperton, GA to produce ethanol from wood and wood waste from Georgia's pine forests and sawmills.
Bob Dinneen: Staying in the Lead on Biofuel Development -- Part 2 2009
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Cellulosic ethanol uses non-food feedstocks with significant green house gas emission reductions, and the first commercial-scale plant is being built today in Soperton, Georgia.
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The money will go toward the first phase of construction on a plant in Soperton, Ga., which is expected to create ethanol using wood material that typically goes unused when timber is harvested.
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Sgt. Michael T. Crockett, 27, of Soperton, Ga., was killed on July 14 in Baghdad, Iraq.
Gulf War II 2003
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A year ago, after it was offered more than $150 million in government grants, Range Fuels closed a commercial factory in Soperton, Ga., where pine chips were to be turned into fuel alcohols, because it ran into technological problems.
NYT > Home Page By MATTHEW L. WALD 2012
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While the Solyndra guarantee won approval under President Barack Obama's administration, the Soperton project was initiated as part of Bush's push to aid alternatives to corn as a source for ethanol.
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Soperton's failure comes after Solyndra LLC, a solar-panel maker that received a $535 million federal loan guarantee, filed for bankruptcy in September.
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