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The recent news that DuPont has closed and plans to sell its two-year old cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa raised questions about the future of cellulosic ethanol production. But Matt Merritt, public relations director for POET, tells Brownfield they’re more optimistic than they’ve ever been about cellulosic.

“We have overcome what has been the main roadblock to getting this technology out there,” Merritt says, “and we are more excited than we’ve ever been about it.”

Merritt says POET has solved a problem that has plagued cellulosic ethanol producers—getting the biomass, that includes corn cobs, stalks and leaves, to move through the system.

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