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The Economic Times
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In Kansas, Abengoa built a biorefinery to process 325,000 tons of crop residue a year and produce 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol

For quite some time now, climate documentaries have highlighted the promise of turning farm residue into fuel. It almost seems like something from a fairy tale. However, it was real in the flat, windy town of Hugoton, Kansas, and it stayed real for a little over a year, before economics and corporate collapse caught up with it, which is the part of the story that never gets its plaque in the history of climate change.

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