Sentences with phrase «research on biofuels»

* $ 1 billion for research on biofuels and another $ 1 billion to support high - quality biomedical research.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

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The Energy Department focuses on the next generation of energy technologies — from advanced nuclear reactors to algae biofuels — conducting basic research in its network of 17 national laboratories, and aiding private companies struggling to bring risky new technologies to market.

While at UT, David was a researcher in the Webber Energy Group, where his research focused on advanced biofuel production to offset petroleum use in the transportation sector.

Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could help make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

Vincent Eijsink at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås says research like this could make possible a new generation of efficient biofuels that don't rely on food crops.

The United Nations Environment Programme finds research into biofuels impacts on dead zones, biodiversity and a range of other environmental issues lacking

Security hawks have stepped up their rhetoric during this election year to push for more hybrid cars and biofuels, and for billions in new research to reduce the country's dangerous dependence on foreign petroleum.

The biological and environmental research program, which funds work on, among other things, biofuels and climate simulation, would receive a 10 % boost to $ 673 million.

«Biofuel production also shows promise for directly offsetting some reliance on fossil fuels,» says Stephen Ogle, an ecosystem research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

Schroeder is also co-director of a new research entity at UC San Diego called «Food and Fuel for the 21st Century,» which is designed to apply basic research on plants to sustainable food and biofuel production.

The Obama Administration opened up the throttle on biofuel research today, announcing plans to pour $ 786 million into new ways to convert corn, wood, grass, and municipal waste into fuel for America's cars.

The model, built on more than three decades of research led by Vincent Chiang of the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University, will speed the process of engineering trees for specific needs in timber, biofuel, pulp, paper and green chemistry applications.

Another candidate for a trim might be the biological and environmental research (BER) program, which supports, among other things, DOE's work on advanced biofuels and climate research.

The bill zeroes out a $ 118 million initiative for biofuels research, for example, and reduces the size of a program for research on fruits, vegetables, and other specialty crops from $ 230 million a year to $ 200 million.

But the research suggests that even if researchers maximized the capacity to grow biofuels on all marginal lands, «the amount of cellulosic ethanol it could produce is only enough to provide 1.5 percent of U.S. transportation fuel by 2020.»

The current bill requires the Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research program to deemphasize climate research in favor of biological research, prevents DOE and the Defense Department from collaborating on biofuels production, and strips emissions reduction from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) Research program to deemphasize climate research in favor of biological research, prevents DOE and the Defense Department from collaborating on biofuels production, and strips emissions reduction from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) research in favor of biological research, prevents DOE and the Defense Department from collaborating on biofuels production, and strips emissions reduction from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) research, prevents DOE and the Defense Department from collaborating on biofuels production, and strips emissions reduction from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) mission.

With the demand from biofuels and fuel cells on the rise, this research is ongoing at the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis at PNNL.

This year more than 70 current and recent college students and almost 20 high school and college instructors participated in a CSEE program, working with Berkeley Lab researchers on science projects spanning from cancer research to cosmology to biofuels.

Headquartered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., BESC is a multi-institutional research organization performing basic and applied science dedicated to improving yields of biofuels by focusing on the fundamental understanding and elimination of biomass recalcitrance.

He has been a member of various federal research panels, served on several editorial boards and advisory committees in microbiology, and helped author reports for DOE on solar energy generation and the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 3, 2016 — Three U.S. Department of Energy - funded research centers — the BioEnergy Science Center (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (University of Wisconsin — Madison and Michigan State University), and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)-- are making progress on a shared mission to develop technologies that will bring advanced biofuels to the marketplace, reporting today the disclosure of their 500th inresearch centers — the BioEnergy Science Center (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (University of Wisconsin — Madison and Michigan State University), and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)-- are making progress on a shared mission to develop technologies that will bring advanced biofuels to the marketplace, reporting today the disclosure of their 500th inResearch Center (University of Wisconsin — Madison and Michigan State University), and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)-- are making progress on a shared mission to develop technologies that will bring advanced biofuels to the marketplace, reporting today the disclosure of their 500th invention.

Research in this program involves work with plants, fungi, and bacteria and is focused on four key areas: feedstock development, biomass depolymerization, biofuels production, and waste management.

The influence of pectin on biofuel production largely has been ignored, according to the paper's first author, Ajaya Biswal, assistant research scientist at the CCRC.

«This joint effort between USDA and DOE will help accelerate research in the critical area of plant feed stocks, which hold one key to making biofuels production both cost effective and sustainable on a national scale,» said Energy Secretary Steven Chu in a statement.

DOE's Bioenergy Research Centers support multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams pursuing the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to make production of cellulosic biofuels, or biofuels from nonfood plant fiber, cost - effective on a nationaResearch Centers support multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research teams pursuing the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to make production of cellulosic biofuels, or biofuels from nonfood plant fiber, cost - effective on a nationaresearch teams pursuing the fundamental scientific breakthroughs needed to make production of cellulosic biofuels, or biofuels from nonfood plant fiber, cost - effective on a national scale.

My research emphasis is on the agronomic performance of robust biofuel and forage crops of diverse genetic backgrounds including switchgrass, sorghum, alfalfa and other biomass crops.

Centre for Jatropha Promotion & Biodiesel (CJP) is the Global authority for scientific commercialization of Jatropha & other non-food biofuel crops and designs and implements the growing of non-food biofuel crops worldwide in a structured Agri - Supply chain, Value additions and research activities thereon & provides technology and services from «Soil to Oil» for the breeding, development, planting and harvesting of next - generation commercial biofuel crops CJP has been engaged in promoting sustainable farming for biodiesel production since last one decade and its research findings and on - hand field experiences in respect of various technical, agronomical / silvicultural aspects of plantations of Jatropha have resulted in significant improvements in knowledge and technical background related to Productivity, profitability and sustainability of commercial production of Jatropha oil crop.

Dr. Lee's research group is focusing on identifying potential drop - in biofuels and building and optimizing the metabolic pathway to produce these target fuels in microbes.

The aiming of this move is to increase Brazilian capacity in food, raw materials, and biofuel production, so that, the country, besides being a key player in food supply, may consolidate, from the technological point of view, the Brazilian role as leader on bioenergy research.

But the more research that's done on liquid biofuels, the less attractive they become.

With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015, Obama said on Tuesday.

And we recently announced the launch of an advanced biofuels research program at Iowa State University focused on fast pyrolysis of biomass.

Building on earlier research showing the carbon payback time of biofuel crops grown on certain types of land, the new study uses «a new, geographically detailed database of crop locations and yields, along with updated vegetation and soil biomass estimates, to provide carbon payback estimates that are more regionally specific than those in previous studies,» write the authors.

The letter goes on to cite research showing that conventional biofuels derived from feedstocks like rapeseed, corn, and palm oil can «directly or indirectly result in substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of forests and grasslands to croplands or pasture to accommodate biofuel production.»

96 The more research is done on liquid biofuels, the less attractive they become.

Alvarado, who arrived to his inauguration ceremony at the Plaza de la Democracy on a hydrogen bus, campaigned on modernizing and electrifying older modes of transport, promoting research and development in hydrogen and biofuels, and banning oil and gas exploration in the country.

Research on the rapid expansion of biofuels production includes studies connecting land grabbing, land dispossession, and social conflict (Molony and Smith, 2010; Borras et al., 2010; Dauverge and Neville, 2010; Vermeulen and Cotula, 2010).

Recent reports by the National Research Council (NRC), the New England Complex Systems Institute (CSI), the UN Committee on World Food Security (CWFS), and Iowa State University (ISU) all acknowledge that biofuel policies put upward pressure on food and feed prices.

He said that instead Shell would focus its remaining renewable energy investments on biofuels, where it is conducting research into second generation fuels, so far with little commercial success.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $ 250 million to establish and operate two new Bioenergy Research Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sResearch Centers to accelerate basic research on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sresearch on the development of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels from biomass, including biodiesel, biofuels for aviation, and biologically based hydrogen and other fuels from sunlight.

Fundamental research on innovative approaches that lead to the intensification of biofuel and bioenergy processes is an emphasis area of this program.

Thankfully, Barack Obama has indicated that he wants to advance cellulosic ethanol research, but we mustn't rest on that assurance alone and continue to monitor his commitment here so that he doesn't get swayed by the corn lobby into, as the original article suggests (perhaps prematurely), continue the failed policies of the Bush administration in promoting biofuels.

In this sweeping town hall meeting moderated by New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, pioneering scientists presented research at the vanguard of solar, wind, geothermal and algae / biofuel energy, while conservationists and high - level policy - makers provided additional perspectives on the challenges and opportunities presented by this urgent global problem.

Based on a decade of research at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, a 2200 - hectare experimental ecological reserve operated by the University of Minnesota, Tilman said that diverse mixtures of plants that mimic the native prairie ecosystem are a better source of biofuels than corn ethanol or soybean biodiesel.

With the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, he leads research on bio-designing yeast to improve the economics of sustainably produced bResearch Center, he leads research on bio-designing yeast to improve the economics of sustainably produced bresearch on bio-designing yeast to improve the economics of sustainably produced biofuels.

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