Corn stover, garden waste such as grass clippings, and offcuts from forestry and timber production are better bets, she reckons.
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"We're focused on building a proper soccer club and being competitive on all levels, " Cosmos general manager Erik Stover said.
His biggest problem, like Stover, was trying to cover up his actions.
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The appealing idea is that native plants like switchgrass and agricultural leftovers like wheat straw and corn stover could be turned into ethanol.
But Stover, according to testimony from mine employees, routinely announced when government inspectors were on the property, something that violates mine safety laws.
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The U.S. military also blamed that attack on a Special Groups cell, but Stover couldn't say whether it was connected to Tuesday's blast.
"Quite frankly, the dissident shareholders haven't really laid out what they think the best way to go for the company is, " says Stover.
The appealing idea is that plants native to the U.S., like switchgrass, and agricultural leftovers like wheat straw and corn stover could be turned into ethanol.
Stover testified in his own defense admitting that he ordered a subordinate to toss documents (security logs) but did not do so to obstruct the investigation.
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"The most common complaint I would hear from clients is that they weren't getting enough awareness from their sponsorships, " says Kerry Stover, who ran the survey for iThink.
Gerry Stover, who now runs a doctors' group in West Virginia, recalls a time when his wife was pregnant and he couldn't get health insurance at a private firm.
In this case, the documents were recovered by authorities after being notified by a cooperating witness that he had been ordered by Stover to throw the documents in a trash compactor, not a shredder.
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Eventually, says Gruber, his fermenting process will be adapted to use corn stalks or wheat straw--known as stover and now sold as cheap animal feed or plowed back into soil--to further knock down the cost.
The microbe, discovered by microbiologists from the University of Massachusetts at the Quabbin Reservoir in western Massachusetts, digests and ferments a wide variety of feedstocks, including corn stover, corn cobs, switchgrass, and sugar cane bagasse.
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Stover, who was head of security at the Upper Big Branch Mine (operated by Performance Coal and owned by Massey Energy), was convicted of impeding the investigation of the mine explosion that killed 29 people on April 5, 2010.
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According to Julie Major, of the International Biochar Initiative, a lobby group based in Maine, infusing savannah in Colombia with biochar made from corn stover (the waste left over when maize is harvested) caused crops there to tower over their char-less peers.
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Stover should have known better.
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