Representatives from the Natural Resources Management & Development Institute and its Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts were in Washington, DC last week participating in Bioenergy Awareness Days and receiving an award for a winning entry in the USDA’s Grand Challenge.
The Associated Press was on-hand and later issued a story featuring Auburn’s work in alternative energy. The AP story was picked up by a number of news agencies including but not limited to: Forbes, CNBC and MSN. We are grateful to the Associated Press for profiling our efforts and to the various news outlets who carried the story. Check it out below:
WASHINGTON, DC, June 20, 2008
Auburn University is showing off its mobile bioenergy unit in the nation’s capitol this week, converting wood chips into electricity on the back of a truck near the National Mall.
Auburn earned the spot as one of about a dozen winners of the Agriculture Department’s Grand Challenge. The contest is aimed to advancing a goal of producing 25 percent of the nation’s energy by 2025.
The mobile unit, used to promote awareness of biomass energy technologies, converts wood chips, switchgrass and other agricultural byproducts into gas, which can be used to generate electricity or converted into liquid fuel.
Steve Taylor, head of the university’s bioenergy center, said the technology is still being refined but could soon be competitive in a variety of commercial uses.
For more information about the Natural Resources Management & Development Institute, please visit our website at www.nrmdi.auburn.edu
