Do they think of a minority woman
working on biofuels?
Davis had been
working on biofuels at a company in the same office park when he got a call from Brown five years ago.
«There can be disadvantages to being first,» says Robert Brown, a mechanical engineer at Iowa State University who
works on biofuel development.
A third scientist, Barney Foran, said the Prime Minister's Department had asked him not to say anything about ethanol as part of broader
work on biofuels he was undertaking.
Not exact matches
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.
Joshua Gallaway, a chemical engineer of Columbia University who was not affiliated with the study, says this type of
work is critical because of
biofuel's potential to reduce America's carbon footprint and its dependency
on non-renewable fossil fuels.
For Woodford, who moved his family from Minnesota to Iowa to sell equipment and
work on Project Liberty, the focus is getting farmers and equipment company engineers ready for the
biofuel boom.
A key component in Keasling's
work, be it anti-malarial drugs or
biofuels, is the fact that the methods are open source and the technology can be produced
on a large scale.
One of the studies Tim has referenced basically concludes that the only thing policymakers can do is
work on the assumption that
biofuels, at this moment in time, are worse than petroleum fuels because of the future risk of land clearing and other GHG emission increases.
The IPCC's
Working Group II report
on climate risks and impacts acknowledged the limitations of
biofuels (ClimateWire, March 31).
Although
Working Group II wrote that Brazilian
biofuels expansion could impinge
on sensitive ecosystems, the report released yesterday specifically includes sugar cane as an option with low life - cycle emissions.
He is now
working on microbes that eat pollution, excrete
biofuels, and more.
The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA), the trade group for sugar - cane ethanol from Brazil, criticized the IPCC for raising alarm
on biofuels in the
Working Group II report published
on March 31.
«I look forward to
working with the president - elect and his nominees to continue the success of domestic
biofuels,» Grassley — whose corn - producing key primary state is particularly bullish
on the RFS — told Scientific American.
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.
They used this strain as the foundation to build
on earlier
work — including the ionic - liquid - tolerant enzymes — and take the steps further to the one - pot
biofuel finishing line.
Indeed,
biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's
work hinges
on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.
«I've
worked on offshore wind projects,
biofuel projects and renewable - energy strategies for sites, companies and even whole countries.»
Scientific analysis of diatom oil has shown that it is very suitable for use as
biofuel, says T. V. Ramachandra, a professor of ecological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here who is
working on this project with IISc researchers Durga Mahapatra and Karthick Balasubramanian, along with Richard Gordon, a radiology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg.
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.
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.
January 31, 2014 - German auto company Audi has entered a partnership with Global Bioenergies to continue
work on a new
biofuels technology that they hope could make synthetic production of gasoline a viable alternative to extracting it from the Earth.
Many
biofuels backers now admit this and are
working on «second - generation»
biofuels that require both R&D and technology «breakthroughs».
But as things stand, while there are many people
working on next - generation
biofuels that could meet the criteria above, the vast majority of the
biofuels made in the U.S. are not particularly green.
While biodiesel from used restaurant grease is great and would ideally be of a scale that would use all such waste, I have yet to see how
biofuels will
work well
on a large scale as an industry in a global market.
There are dozens of companies and more universities
working on algae to
biofuel processes.
Canada currently maintains a 5 % domestic ethanol mandate
on use while the U.S. is
working towards a target of 136 billion liters of
biofuels blended into transportation fuels by 2022.
In its place, the
work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like
biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed system of transportation that runs
on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.
They have also
worked on population projections as a function of per capita income, and
on impacts of
biofuels on agriculture and hunger.
«Representative Perry and Senator Gautreaux have
worked tirelessly to craft comprehensive advanced
biofuel legislation which will maximize rural development, benefit consumers, farmers and gas station owners while also protecting the environment and reducing the burden
on local water supplies,» said Donovan.
A team at Australia's University of Queensland is
working on turning banana waste into
biofuel.
British Airways is already
working on a goal of running planes
on 10 % made - from - waste
biofuel, Air New Zealand has a goal of using one million barrels of sustainable
biofuels by 2013, and
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The good people at Environmental
Working Group have issued a statement saying that, as US
biofuels policy is not achieving the goals of decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing the nation's reliance
on foreign
The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) which released its comprehensive report
on the current status of bioenergy today, says the conflict between growing crops for food versus
biofuels is artificial and can be resolved if the United States, Europe and other rich countries drop protectionist policies and
work with developing nations to increase the use of the eco-friendly fuels.
Specifically, his
work focuses
on patent law, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, cyberlaw, digital government (e-gov), agricultural biotechnology law, and
biofuels regulation.
We
work with clients
on developing clean and renewable energy facilities, energy efficiency and microgrids, as well conventional and nuclear power plants and a range of other infrastructure including wind, solar, biomass, fuel cells, tidal, geothermal and
biofuels projects.