Posts Tagged ‘biofuels’
Designing jet fuels of the future
Using micro-organisms able to survive in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, two CALS researchers are working to turn plants and algae into oil-producing factories efficient enough to help solve the problem of the world’s diminishing petroleum reserves.
Biofuels efforts to be showcased Sept. 14
The latest N.C. State University research related to biofuels will be showcased at the 2011 Western N.C. Bioenergy Field Day. The event takes place Sept. 14 at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station in Mills River.
Project fuels interest in canola
When leaders of a project designed to provide homegrown, renewable fuels for the military and to strengthen Eastern North Carolina agriculture needed help finding the right source crop and testing it locally, they turned to N.C. State University and its N.C. Cooperative Extension Service for help.
BAE partners with DOT to grow bioenergy crops on highway rights-of-way
Along the state’s highways, canola crops and sunflowers are being grown for energy.
Bioenergy field day set for Sept. 30 in Oxford
Hear what N.C. State University scientists have to say about some of the most promising N.C. crops for bioenergy during a field day set for Sept. 30 in Oxford.
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