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Products like Virent's are known as "drop-in" fuels because they can be put into the nation's existing fueling infrastructure and even produced at existing refineries.

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If policy does not consider that going forward, those innovative technologies may never get off the drawing boards, said Lee Edwards, CEO of Virent Energy Systems Inc., a Wisconsin-based company backed by Royal Dutch Shell.

Battle brewing over biofuels' future 2011

Some in the ethanol industry "are trying to monopolize the fuels market for themselves," said Michael McAdams, a lobbyist for the Advanced Biofuels Association, which represents Virent and other companies.'

Battle brewing over biofuels' future 2011

Shell has invested in a Canadian cellulosic-ethanol company called Iogen Energy Corp. a biofuels start-up called Codexis Inc. and Wisconsin-based Virent Energy Systems, which uses chemical catalysts to transform plant sugars from switch grass or wheat straw into hydrocarbons to burn as fuel.

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Virent is using beet sugar to make gasoline, but its goal is to eventually convert the sugars found in crop residue and other sources of plant cellulose into gasoline, said Edwards, a former executive with the oil giant BP.The conversion facilities could be added either to existing refineries or to corn processing mills, he said.

Battle brewing over biofuels' future 2011

By comparison, Virent says it believes existing engines can operate on its fuel without any problems, while generating fewer carbon-dioxide emissions.

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Avaya Aura Workforce Optimization is a new product that integrates Avaya management into WFO software licensed from Virent, which previously was sold separately to Avaya customers as complementary platforms.

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The Virent announcement underscores the technological progress being made to create low-carbon fuels from domestic crops.

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The Virent announcement underscores the technological progress being made to create low-carbon fuels from domestic crops.

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The fuel being made by Virent can be blended right into existing pipelines, gas stations and automobile fuel tanks without problems.

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