Tag Archives: CSU

Clean cooking: the convergence of traditional and modern bioenergy in developing countries

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

One of the great ironies of bioenergy is that,  despite the rapid proliferation of 1st-generation ethanol fuel production in the US/Brazil and the vast resources being devoted to the development of cellolosic ethanol and advanced drop-in renewable fuels, the majority … Continue reading →

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CSU researchers receive DOE grant to study bioenergy feedstocks

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Some more local news at Colorado State!  My lab as part of a larger collaboration was awarded a pretty large DOE/USDA grant for translational research on bioenergy feedstocks. We’ll be using rice as both 1) a model for other grasses … Continue reading →

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some potential for miscanthus as a bioenergy crop, while switchgrass loses again

Posted on July 19, 2011 by

So today I’m sharing a study completed by some researchers here at Colorado State University, along with some folks at UI Urbana-Champaign using the DAYCENT model. They basically asked what would happen if instead of using corn to make ethanol, we … Continue reading →

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