Biofuels.Biofuels: The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it will invest $375 million to support three new Bioenergy Research Centers from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2013. The Centers will be established in Oakridge, Tennessee; Madison, Wisconsin Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The 2006 population estimate of Madison was 223,389, making it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and ; and near Berkeley, California Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington. . The Centers will be hubs of collaboration, staffed by groups of researchers from 18 universities, many private companies, seven DOE national laboratories and at least one nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. , the Samuel Roberts Samuel Roberts is the name of:
n. Raw material required for an industrial process. Noun 1. feedstock - the raw material that is required for some industrial process raw material, staple - material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing plants that grow in different regions of the country. A primary focus area for the Centers will be the development of techniques that can be used to more efficiently convert cellulose into biofuels. The Centers are expected to begin work in 2008 and should be fully operational by 2009. This funding program is a component of President Bush's Twenty in Ten Initiative, which was announced this year and aims to cut US gasoline use by 20% in 10 years. Source: DOE |
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