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WSU researcher creates cooking-oil based bio-asphalt

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Asphalt binder, the sticky “glue” that holds crushed stone and sand together to form pavement, only accounts for about 5% percent of the final hot mix asphalt (HMA) that is steamrolled into glossy new lanes and boulevards. In Iowa, for example, scientists are making a corn-based bioasphalt from residue left after the production of ethanol.

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Oil Oil-Sands North Carolina Iowa

ES&T editorial calls Keystone XL a “pipeline to nowhere”

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

Jerald Schnoor, also a professor in the departments of civil & environmental engineering and occupational & environmental health at the University of Iowa, has written an editorial for the journal in which he calls the Keystone XL pipeline a “ pipeline to nowhere ”. Use of coal, oil, and natural gas has to stop (in that order).

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WSU researcher creates cooking-oil based bio-asphalt

ES&T editorial calls Keystone XL a “pipeline to nowhere”

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