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DOE offers $4.4 million for university biofuel projects

It's not all li-ion battery tech that the federal government is givng support to these days; biofuels are getting some tax dollars as well. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that six biofuel projects at universities around the U.S. will be getting up to $4.4 million in funding. The good news is that the money is for work in non-food cellulosic ethanol research. Full details are available after the jump, but here are some snippets: University of Toledo: For "development of cost-effective biocatalysts capable of ... Read more →

North Carolina's NASCAR Governor announces PHEV research center Lascelles Linton

You might expect the announcement of the funding of a plug-in hybrid research center to be boring. Not if North Carolina governor Mike Easley has anything to do with it! The NASCAR governor says, "the ...

Toyota to hand over plug-in Priuses to CA Universities at ceremony Friday Lascelles Linton

In July, we told you two plug-in Priuses were coming to the United States for road tests. ln a ceremony Friday at Toyota headquarters in Torrance, Toyota will hand over those two plug-in Priuses to ...

Arizona State extending fuel cell-life with antifreeze Dane Muldoon

Researchers at Arizona State University, working on prolonging the life of hydrogen fuel-cells by increasing hydrogen storage density, have hit upon a new chemical combination to achieve their goal. ...

Greener ethanol: taking natural gas out of the production process Derrick Y. Noh

Iowa State University and Frontline BioEnergy, manufacturers of biomass gasification systems, have joined forces to attempt to eliminate natural gas from ethanol production. According to Physorg, ...


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