By Erin Voegele / Ethanol Magazine / November 20, 2009 Poet LLC recently announced it has reduced the per-gallon cost of cellulosic ethanol production by $1.78 during the first year of operation at it. […]
From: Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative. […] | 11.24.2009
By David Paulk | The Eastern Echo | November 22, 2009 The use of biofuels such as ethanol to provide energy is in a state of flux, but one Eastern Michigan University professor is doing his part to ma. […]
From: Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative. […] | 11.23.2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/19/09 EDITOR’S NOTE: An image is available for download at http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/queenAntGarden09.html CONTACT: Cameron Currie, 608-265-8034, currie@bact.wisc.. […]
From: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research. […] | 11.19.2009
November 18, 2009 Current cost per gallon exceeds POET’s expectations for Project LIBERTY By POET WASHINGTON, D.C. POET announced today that cost reductions achieved over the past year of operating. […]
From: Great Lakes Bioenergy Research. […] | 11.19.2009
By Craig A. Johnson / Ethanol Producer Magazine / Nov. 5, 2009 At the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center in Madison, Wis., researchers are looking to leafcutter ants for new enzymatic processes that will further progress efforts to commercialize cellulosic ethanol. Leafcutter ants, which are found in tropical climates and live in enormous colonies that can [...] [...more]
GMF | Washington, DC | September 25, 2009 On Friday, September 25, GMF hosted a debate on biofuels and indirect land use change (ILUC) between Tim Searchinger, transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund and Bruce Dale, professor at Michigan State University. The debate was moderated by Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post. The [...] [...more]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8/6/09 CONTACT: Tim Donohue, 608-262-4663, tdonohue@bact.wisc.edu; John Ralph, 608-890-2429, jralph@wisc.edu; Phil Robertson, 269-671-2267, robertson@kbs.msu.edu GLBRC RECEIVES $8 MILLION IN RECOVERY ACT FUNDING MADISON – 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 [...] [...more]
TUE., JUL 21, 2009 – 9:32 PM By RON SEELY 608-252-6131 rseely@madison.com The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center has decided to fund an ant genome sequencing project, headed by Cameron Currie (a UW-Madison researcher). Click here for more information. [...more]
Eric Bland, Discovery News July 6, 2009 — The genomes of 17 different ants, fungi and bacteria that eat through hundreds of pounds of leaf matter a year could ultimately lead to new techniques for making biofuels. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, the Joint Genome Institute and Emory University are sequencing the first-ever community genome, searching for [...] [...more]
In the United States and around the world, agricultural and forestry activities create considerable excess plant biomass that has little or no economic value and are often discarded as waste. These feedstocks, such as corn stalks, wood chips and other plant materials, contain energy in the form of sugars, which could be used to create [...] [...more]
