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Product Description This unique ringbound book and DVD-ROM set provides the ultimate toolkit about biomass energy and biofuels. The ringbound book provides a reproduction of the new Department of Energy Office of the Biomass Program Multi-Year Program Plan issued in 2010. Contents include the program technology, research, development, and deployment plan for feedstocks platform, conversion platform, integrated biorefineries platform, the biofuels infrastructure and end use, and crosscutting market transformation. The DVD-ROM provides an unprecedented encyclopedic collection of authoritative official documents, reference books, guides, handbooks, and technical reports about every conceivable aspect of biomass energy and biofuels, including alternative fuels like biodiesel, ethanol, methanol - with over 70,000 pages of invaluable material presented in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. This incredible library has been revised and updated for this 2011 edition. Progressive Management has been a leader in renewable energy publishing for nearly a decade, and we believe that this exceptional collection provides the most comprehensive set of government biomass and biofuel documents ever offered! If you have a professional or personal interest in biomass, you will find this disc to be an effective, time-saving, and practical source of ready-to-use information. Encyclopedic coverage of every aspect of biofuels is included, with coverage of biopower, ethanol and methanol, hydrogen, methane, Fischer-Tropsch diesel, plant materials, and much more. It includes material on E85 ethanol programs with practical information for start-ups and entrepreneurs, including sources of funding and help. Federal documents cover research and development programs from the U.S. Department of Energy and the USDA (Agriculture Department). Topics covered include: Alternative Fuels Properties Comparison, Toolkits, Training, Education Resources, Vehicle Guide, Clean Cities, Fueling and Infrastructure,