Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, Legislation and Policy, USA
The U.S. Department of Energy has got its fingers in a lot of alternative-energy pies, from hydrogen vehicles to plug-ins. Today, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the DOE has announced that it will reach a little deeper into 13 biofuel and feedstock improvement projects with a $41 million investment. We hope there are gloves involved in the "manure to ethanol" project.
The details of the projects can be found in the press release below, but there are five that will "diversify the nation's energy portfolio and replace the need for gasoline and diesel in vehicles" and eight that use "biomass genomics to improve promising biofuel feedstocks and drive more efficient, cost-effective energy production."
The five vehicle-specific projects include: $4.25 million for the Quad County Corn Cooperative in Iowa to improve a corn starch ethanol plant; $7 million for the Agricultural Research Service's National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Illinois to create better "rapeseed/canola, mustard and camelina oilseed crops" to make diesel and jet fuel; $6.85 million for Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in Ohio for better rubber plants so they make rubber as well as byproducts to maybe be used "in biopower and for conversion to jet fuel precursors;" $7 million for the University of Wisconsin to turn dairy manure into ethanol and other products; and $6 million to the University of Hawaii to grow local grasses so they can more easily be used to make jet fuel and diesel.
That's all pretty heady stuff, but a new video called Biofuels 101 shows that the Energy Department can also make this stuff easy to understand. Watch it below.
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