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Ames: Iowa's Future Bio-Indutrial Capital?
The City of Ames is supporting the exploration of a process that converts corn stalks and garbage into "bio-oil." With the help of the city, Robert Brown, Iowa Farm Bureau Director of the Bioeconomy Institute, and Jim Cooper, coordinator of the Prairie Rivers of Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, will be studying the commercial feasibility of such a process to provide a renewable source of fuel for the Ames power plant. Click here to learn more about this initiative.
ConocoPhillips Awards ISU $22.5 Million for Biofuels Research -- ISU News Service
May 30, 2007 10:59 AMConocoPhillips, the third-largest petroleum and energy company in the United States, has partnered with Iowa State researchers to develop new biofuels technologies. ConocoPhillips announced the eight-year, $22.5...
Inspired by Ancient Amazonians, a Plan to Convert Trash into Environmental Treasure -- Scientific American
May 16, 2007 12:13 PMBig Biofuels Funding Has Universities Competing -- The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 13, 2007 02:26 PMConocoPhillips Supports Mandatory Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
April 12, 2007 04:24 PMPlans Underway to Build 21st Century Bioeconomy Farm -- The Ames Tribune
March 15, 2007 11:26 AM
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