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MIT ethanol analysis confirms benefits of biofuels

A new MIT analysis shows that the amount of energy used by converting corn into ethanol and the amount of fossil energy of the ethanol produced are so close that several factors can easily change whether ethanol ends up a net energy winner or loser.

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