Stories indexed under: Bioenergy

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• Curiosities: What will be the most likely fuel to replace gasoline? July 31, 2008
• A 'red flag' for expanding biofuels in the tropics July 9, 2008 Biofuels, by recycling atmospheric carbon, are a potential boon to the world's ailing climate. But efforts in the tropics to significantly expand biofuel production by replacing tropical forests with oil palm, sugarcane and other agricultural biofuels could, in fact, accelerate climate change, according to a new study published this week (July 9).
• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center hires scientific programs manager July 7, 2008 The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has hired a translator to connect researchers who would normally live in entirely separate research worlds.
• Lignin expert chooses to pursue biofuels research at UW-Madison July 1, 2008 A UW-Madison biochemistry professor will stay at the university to join its Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.
• Money doesn’t grow on trees, but gasoline might April 7, 2008 In 2003, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student George Huber and colleagues made hydrogen from plant sugars using nickel-tin alloy catalysts in the lab of Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor James Dumesic.
• Forum explores ‘pro-poor rewards’ for ecosystem protection March 26, 2008 Ecologist and MacArthur Fellow Lisa Curran will discuss the use of biofuels in Borneo, a large island in southeast Asia, in a free public lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in 180 Science Hall.
• Increased ethanol production to worsen Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ March 10, 2008 The rush in the United States to produce corn-based ethanol as an alternative fuel will likely worsen pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and expand the annual "dead zone" that kills fish and other aquatic life, according to new research.
• Hot subjects—BSE 375: ‘Biorefining: Energy and Products from Renewable Resources’ Feb. 4, 2008 Solving the energy crisis has been the topic of conversation for consumers, researchers and politicians alike, particularly since the price of oil reached $100 a barrel earlier this month.
• Researchers examine world’s potential to produce biodiesel Oct. 24, 2007 What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
• Researchers examine world’s potential to produce biodiesel Oct. 17, 2007 What do the countries of Thailand, Uruguay and Ghana have in common? They all could become leading producers of the emerging renewable fuel known as biodiesel, says a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
• Bioenergy research center gets early boost from U.S. Department of Energy Sept. 28, 2007 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has received $6.67 million in start-up funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that will allow researchers to get to work on promising new sources of energy that may someday power our cars, homes, and businesses.
• Major bioenergy initiative takes flight in Midwest June 26, 2007 A consortium of universities, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories and businesses led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison to explore the vast potential of bioenergy was awarded one of three major new DOE bioenergy research centers, it was announced today (June 26).
• Engineers develop higher-energy liquid-transportation fuel from sugar June 20, 2007 Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all of life on Earth.
• Gene sequencing advance bolsters biofuels potential March 6, 2007 A collaborative research project between the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) and the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has advanced the quest for efficient conversion of plant biomass to fuels and chemicals.
• CALS Dean Molly Jahn: Biosciences can transform state economy Feb. 6, 2007 Few people have a better firsthand take on the value of university-industry collaboration than Molly Jahn, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's new dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
• UW-Madison college targets federal bioenergy initiative Jan. 23, 2007 The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is leading efforts to bring a new federal bioenergy research and development center to Wisconsin, the college's dean told a group of bioscience industry leaders today.
• Research aims for more efficiency in harvest and handling Sept. 26, 2006 A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher wants farmers to put less energy into harvesting and handling biofuel crops - less fuel, less time and less labor.
• New process makes diesel fuel, industrial chemicals from simple sugar June 29, 2006 A University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineering professor reports in the June 30 issue of the journal Science on a better way to make a chemical intermediate called HMF from fructose: fruit sugar. Chemical intermediates are compounds that are the raw material for many modern plastics, drugs and fuels.