New Research Center Dedicated in Emeryville
To solve the world's energy and climate change crisis it will take a new generation of fuels.
To that end a new energy research center was dedicated in Emeryville Tuesday. It is a lab that hopes to grow its own ground-breaking research.
In a facility built for gene-splicing they held a ribbon-cutting Tuesday, a ribbon-cutting with expectations. Full Story & Video.
Emeryville Biofuel Institute Dedicated
"Welcome to the future," said Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman as he dedicated the new Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, a research center supported by the Bay Area's national laboratories, leading academic institutions and private industry. "This is America, where we have made a habit of accomplishing the seemingly impossible, especially in the areas of science and technology." Full story.
New Biofuels Institute Assumes Critical Role in Easing Dependence on Petrofuels
The new Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville was officially dedicated Tuesday, but it's already facing a daunting deadline.
Within 15 years, the federal government wants its team of more than 125 scientists to do what has been technically impossible to date: Convert the tough fiber of grass and other plants into fuel ready to pump into cars, trucks and planes.
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