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Biofuels Life Cycle Assessment Talk Tomorrow!
BERC Undergrad is pleased to welcome Professor Arpad Horvath, of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, for a talk on Life-cycle Environmental Assessment of Biofuels. The talk will take place on Wednesday, April 18th from 6-7 pm at Haas C320.
Influx of Biofuel IPO’s: Bridging the Valley of Death or Another Bubble?
Moving from the lab to scalable operational stage, biofuel companies are increasingly seeking funding through public markets as they gear up to build their first capital-intensive demonstrations or commercial plants.
Influx of Biofuel IPO’s: Bridging the Valley of Death or Another Bubble?
Moving from the lab to scalable operational stage, biofuel companies are increasingly seeking funding through public markets as they gear up to build their first capital-intensive demonstrations or commercial plants.
Breakthrough using e. coli to produce transportation fuels
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have engineered the first strains of Escherichia coli bacteria that can digest switchgrass biomass and synthesize its sugars into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
china focus: biofuels
Cooking oil recycling in China has been a major food safety issue, but other countries may provide models for reform and biodiesel recyclers are cropping up.latest from the blog
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