Funding for Biofuels Research

The New York Times
January 18, 2010, 9:44 am By SINDYA N. BHANOO

The United States Department of Energy announced last week more than $80 million in financing from the economic stimulus package for a new national program dedicated to biofuels research.

The goal is not only to develop high energy, dense fuels, but also to figure out how to use existing infrastructure as much as possible to save costs, said John Holladay, head of biomass research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, one of the groups leading the program.

“The way to really do this is to use the infrastructure that’s in place as as much as you can,” he said. “That includes the infrastructure for fuel distribution and the infrastructure to produce fuels. I’m talking about pipelines, but also petroleum refineries.”

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