RTI, NCSU among Biofuels Center grant recipients

Triangle Business Journal (North Carolina)
Thursday, March 12, 2009, 2:42pm EDT

The Biofuels Center of North Carolina is doling out $2.77 million worth of grants intended to help boost the state’s biofuel industry.

“The Midwest has corn and Brazil has sugarcane. North Carolina needs to develop conversion technologies for the types of crops and trees the state has in plenty so that we are able to turn this biomass into viable, advanced biofuels,” new center President Steven Burke in a statement. “This funding puts North Carolina on the path toward reducing its dependency on foreign oil and liquid fuel imports while putting money back into our state’s economy.”

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