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Tag Archives: ethanol
Where is BIO: Amy Ehlers, Advanced Biofuels Technology Trends and Policy Opportunities
Last week, Amy Ehlers, Policy Manager in BIO’s Industrial and Environmental Section, gave a presentation in the Sustainability and the Environment track at the 2010 DOE Biomass Conference in Washington, DC. The title of the panel was: A look at the effect of Federal climate change legislation on the bioenergy sector and the title of her presentation was: Advanced Biofuels Technology Trends and Policy Opportunities. The session was moderated by Liz Marshall, Resource Economist, Biofuels Read More >
Where is BIO: Dr. Rina Singh, Growing and Strengthening the Biobased Chemicals Industry
BIO is involved in many different policy areas, but did you know that BIO’s staff is participating in the biotech community—giving talks at various conferences and meetings around the world. Yesterday BIO’s very own Rina Singh Ph.D., Policy Director in the Industrial Biotechnology section at BIO, gave a presentation at a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Public Meeting: Biobased Intermediate Materials and Feedstocks. The title of her talk: Growing and Strengthening the Biobased Chemicals Read More >
Seen at the Washington Auto Show: Advanced Fuel Cars
Novozymes today offered members of the media, government officials, VIPs and other attendees of the annual Washington Auto Show a chance to test drive of Chevy HHR powered (literally) by government waste. The fuel used in the car was produced from government office wastepaper and waste cardboard by Fiberight. Novozymes President Adam Monroe previewed the effort on Clean Skies TV. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJEqwDtq48Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] Also at the show, auto parts maker Ricardo Inc. is displaying a GMC Sierra Read More >
Weekly Blog Round Up
Biofuels are big in Iowa. So big in fact, that according to domesticfuel.com “Iowa State University will get $8 million of a $78 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to research and develop advanced biofuels.” “These Iowa State research projects are paid for by stimulus bucks … the same money that is funding the $44 million to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Mo. (…..) and the $34 million (plus $8.4 million Read More >
Biotech in the Blogosphere
Wow, what a blog post title, “Synthetic Biology: Why Not Pursuing Crazy Biotech Is Dangerous.” The the crew at Gizmodo who came up with that title talks with Michael Spector who covers science for the New Yorker and is the author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. The Gizmodo crew says about their discussion with Specter, “For our discussion—fitting the theme of This Cyborg Life—we singled Read More >
