article thumbnail

UT Austin researcher awarded $15M for switchgrass traits studies

Green Car Congress

A researcher at The University of Texas at Austin will receive two grants totaling $15 million to study switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), with a focus on how it can become a sustainable source of bioenergy. Additionally, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a four-year grant of $4 million to Juenger and his team.

Austin 150
article thumbnail

USDA and DOE Partnership Awards $8.9M to 9 Projects to Develop Better Plants for Biofuels

Green Car Congress

The research grants will be awarded under the joint DOE-USDA Plant Feedstocks Genomics for Bioenergy program, which is focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics to harness lignocellulosic materials for biofuels production. University of Missouri, Columbia. 793,413 (DOE). 1,106,656 (DOE).

Illinois 210
article thumbnail

A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

When I spoke out against the home-porting of the battleship Missouri with its nuclear tomahawk cruise missile arsenal, the folks at the Alliance for Survival called and asked me, “Do you just talk about stuff or do you DO anything too?” So I wrote some more screenplays and began developing TV sitcoms that nobody wanted to produce either.

article thumbnail

Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In addition, climate change demands that we harness new, renewable sources of energy. In 1947 scientists at Bell Labs, which owed its existence to a government-granted monopoly, invented the transistor, the essential ingredient that in time led to the integrated circuit and the microprocessor. And they exist. 24.17% CBS Corp 6.76

2009 39
article thumbnail

Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.