Stories indexed under: Bioenergy

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• UW-Madison invention basis for top honor in clean-energy competition March 15, 2012 A new company built to commercialize a green-energy discovery at University of Wisconsin-Madison earned the top honor - and a check for $100,000 - at this month's Chicago Clean Energy Challenge.
• New ‘corn atlas’ shows which genes are active during each stage of plant growth May 10, 2011 Just as a road atlas helps travelers find their way, a new corn atlas will help plant scientists navigate vast amounts of gene expression data from the corn plant, as described in the May 10 issue of The Plant Journal.
• New plan details Wisconsin’s potential to turn millions of exported energy dollars into revenues March 28, 2011 A collaboration of researchers, business leaders, policymakers and industry experts has identified a plan for capitalizing on the biogas energy opportunity in Wisconsin.
• New online atlas to move bioenergy fuels from source to commodity Dec. 21, 2010 The market for bioenergy just got a boost from a collaborative effort to make existing biomass availability information widely available.
• Bioenergy choices could dramatically change Midwest bird diversity Oct. 4, 2010 Ambitious plans to expand acreage of bioenergy crops could have a major impact on birds in the Upper Midwest, according to a study published today (Oct. 4) in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center hires chief operating officer Sept. 20, 2010 Anchored in the basic research of academia and charged with generating new biofuels technologies, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) is a bit of a hybrid.
• From raw biomass, chemical process produces simple, fermentable sugars March 9, 2010 A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a promising new chemical method to liberate the sugar molecules trapped inside inedible plant biomass, a key step in the creation of cellulosic biofuels.
• Bioenergy research center featured in special magazine issue March 1, 2010 The March issue of BioEnergy Research exclusively focuses on the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and bioenergy research topics ranging from arthropods to cell walls to hydrogen and enzyme improvement.
• Panel seeks suppliers for new Charter Street Heating Plant Feb. 15, 2010 Wide-ranging efforts to nurture a Wisconsin biomass market supplying fuel to the soon-to-be-renovated Charter Street Heating Plant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are under way, as officials begin identifying potential suppliers for the cutting-edge facility.
• TIP/Energy policy expert Jan. 29, 2010 Jan. 29, 2010
• Virent Energy Systems CEO to speak at Bioenergy Summit Oct. 15, 2009 Lee Edwards, president and chief executive officer of Madison's Virent Energy Systems, will deliver the keynote address at the second annual Wisconsin Bioenergy Summit at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
• GLBRC receives $8 million in Recovery Act funding Aug. 6, 2009 The Department of Energy (DOE) Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has received $8.099 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to provide crucial support for plant cell wall imaging and sustainability research.
• UW-Madison researchers study salt's potential to store energy June 2, 2009 At UW-Madison, researchers see potential for storing heat in a mineral found on kitchen counters and restaurant tables worldwide. They're studying salt.
• Survey shows high interest in biofuels April 1, 2009 Most Americans want to know more about biofuels, according to a new survey fielded by researchers in the Department of Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Two-step chemical process turns raw biomass into biofuel Feb. 10, 2009 Taking a chemical approach, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a two-step method to convert the cellulose in raw biomass into a promising biofuel. The process, which is described in the Wednesday, Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is unprecedented in its use of untreated, inedible biomass as the starting material.
• Paper industry executive to lead Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative Feb. 3, 2009 Troy Runge, research director at Kimberly-Clark Corp., has been named director of the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI).
• Wisconsin undergraduate team tackles biofuels challenges Oct. 30, 2008 Working on a current scientific issue with cutting-edge technology is unusual for an undergraduate. But not for the Wisconsin iGEM team, a group of 11 University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates researching biofuels for a synthetic biology competition.
• President of Environmental Defense Fund to speak at Bioenergy Summit Oct. 20, 2008 Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, will deliver the keynote address at the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative's Bioenergy Summit on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 3 p.m. in Ebling Symposium Hall of the Microbial Sciences Building, 1550 Linden Drive.
• Reseachers derive 'green gasoline' from plant sugars Sept. 18, 2008 Alternative energy doesn't always mean solar or wind power. In fact, the alternative fuels developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineering professor James Dumesic look a lot like the gasoline and diesel fuel used in vehicles today.
• Curiosities: What will be the most likely fuel to replace gasoline? July 31, 2008