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...ethanol craze helps fertilizer makers...
...interest, the sudden materialization of capital can seem too good to be true. When Tom Todaro launched Seattle-based Targeted Growth, which uses genetic engineering to greatly enhance the yields of crops, he thought the company's ability to multiply the amount of feedstock available for biodiesel or ethanol would make it a star of the emerging biofuels sector. But it was the late 1990s, when clean tech made up less than 1% of total venture-capital spending, and investors weren't interested. "I went begging to friends and families and small investment firms," Todaro recalls. "At one point...
...range of clean-tech sectors, with a particular focus on biofuel start-ups such as Range Fuels, which is close to commercializing biofuel out of agricultural residue like wood chips, rather than food crops. Nothing has paid off big for him yet - in fact, prices for corn-based ethanol, which Khosla has also invested in, crashed in 2007, largely due to overproduction. But Khosla, who sees corn as a stepping stone to superior cellulosic ethanol, is undaunted. "This is a great market with great fundamentals," he says...
...Even when backed by the largesse of Bill Gates, the nonprofits' influence in Iowa or New Hampshire pales in comparison to more established interest groups such as unions and the ethanol lobby. Still, some groups made small inroads in 2004. A grassroots campaign led by the Global AIDS Alliance in Iowa convinced all nine Democratic candidates to publicly pledge to double President Bush's commitment to global HIV/AIDS and provide $30 billion to fight AIDS by 2008. Senator John Kerry and six others also agreed to a pledge sponsored by the American Arts Alliance, a national advocate for performing arts...
...almost a year, nary a day has gone by - or so it seems to us Iowans - without a public appearance by one of the 16 candidates (at last count) expounding on the war and the economy, immigration and terrorism, health care and education, and, of course, agriculture and ethanol. As I type on this blustery November day in Des Moines, John Edwards is rallying with picketing nurses at a Dubuque hospital while, in western Iowa, Rudy Giuliani is at a "meet-and-greet" at the B&L Vintage Brew and Sugar Shack in Rock Rapids...