And Broin at POET felt that this could allow grain-based ethanol to meet as much of the full 36 billion gallon mandate as could be economically feasible given corn prices.

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As Ultan O Broin, my old friend and all round tech expert, recently put it in the Irish Times, the claims made for the web as a socially transformative technology are belied by an increasing amount of data.

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